THE KEY: PARENTS
EQUIPPING & TRAINING CHILDREN!
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deuteronomy 6:4-7 NKJV
Training up a child is not just teaching or taking them to Sunday School, it is so much more!
Dictionary definition: To teach a person or animal a particular skill or behavior through practice and instruction over a period of time.
In the Jewish culture as reflected in Deuteronomy above, we can see how they incorporated this kind of training in their every day lives. Parents first incorporated these truths in their own lives and passed them onto their children. Children who see Jesus lived out in their parents, will have more of a tendency to do the same!