Partnering while Parenting | Ephesians 6:1–4

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1–4

+ From a Child-Centered Home to a Christ-Centered Home 

+ From Outsourcing to Owning.  

“All this that we here suffer is through you: you should have taught us the things of God, and did not; you should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not; you were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it...Woe unto us that we had such carnal and careless parents, and woe unto you that had no more compassion and pity to prevent the everlasting misery of your own children” – Richard Mather, cited in Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were by Leland Ryken. 

+ From Controlling to Cultivating  

Proverbs 13:24 NIV

Proverbs 19:18 NIV

Philippians 2:13 NIV
+ From Moving Them Out to Sending Them Out. 

Psalm 127:3–5 NIV