By Brenda Kelly
Children, dressed, hair in place and sitting attentively in the family room, Dad with his Bible giving a sermon, and me making sure the baby was quiet. That was my initial thought when I heard that we should be involved in “Family Discipleship.”
“There’s no way that is going to happen in our crazy world of 70-hour work weeks, educating 6 children, and a house to manage — not to mention biblical hospitality, church life, etc. Maybe next year we’ll get our act together and mange to pull this off!”
But as the years went by, I began to realize that discipleship happens best when it happens naturally during a day … choosing to sing a worship song instead of a nursery rhyme when putting the toddler to bed, grabbing a Bible and reading what God has to say about selfishness when breaking up a dispute over a toy instead of trying to decide “who had it first,” stopping to pray with a teen whose heart has been wounded by a friend instead of thinking there will be time later for this conversation, wiping away tears over a math problem while reminding that God wants us to work hard and school is part of a child’s work.
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