By Cindy Starr 

What do we believe?

Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing from God and parents bear the primary responsibility of training them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord 

Why do we believe this?

Deuteronomy 6:7 –“You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Why does it matter?

This is a profound commandment both for its breadth and intensity. There is nothing more vital, more earnest, and more transforming than the diligent teaching of God’s Word. The definition of diligent is constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything; done or pursued with persevering attention. A synonym would be painstaking. Parents are to be constant, attentive, persistent and persevering in their teaching of God’s truths to their children. With painstaking and arduous passion they are to tell and re-tell God’s Word and its application. Quite frankly, given the frenetic nature of our times and the overload of sensory stimulation, it is a wonder that we do anything with painstaking passion! This is the battle of our times – to remain intent on the goal; to focus on the task set before us; to discern distraction and remain undeterred. Knowledge produces conviction produces affection – we teach the truth so that the heart is ignited by the truth and in this igniting, the heart is constrained to obey with joy.