Nurturing our preschool children (2)
This article by Wilbur Bruinsma addresses the spiritual nurturing of preschool children, establishing that children should be taught as covenant children while acknowledging their fallen sinful nature. The resource emphasizes the critical role of parents as primary teachers and educators in the home, grounded in baptismal vows and the promises of God's covenant.
In the first article on this subject we answered the question, who are our children? We learned two important truths that are vital to the proper spiritual nurturing of our children. First, we must instruct our children as children of the promise of God's covenant. God promises believing parents that He will save a people unto Himself in the line of those generations born into the church. This promise does not include every child born into the church. Rather, that promise is spoken organically...
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