The Covenant Home: God’s Ideal Institution for the Nurture of Children (5): The Covenant Home Must Be a Sheltered Environment
This article argues that the covenant home must provide a sheltered environment for covenant children, protecting them from worldly influences while training them in godliness and spiritual separation from the world. Den Hartog emphasizes that Christian parents bear responsibility to nurture their children in the fear of the Lord and in distinct Christian living, even as they prepare them to engage responsibly in society. The piece reflects on the covenant community's calling to be spiritually separate and holy, with the family as the primary sphere for discipleship and formation.
Previous article in this series: January 1, 2015, p. 161. The covenant home is God's ideal institution for the nurture of our covenant children. There is no worldly institution that can properly nurture the children of the covenant. The ideal covenant home must provide a sheltered environment for our covenant children. Especially in the formative and impressionable years of their lives our covenant children must be sheltered from the evil influences of this ungodly world, from its evil...
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