Parenting and Teaching Our Children In Grace

Guest post by Kim Nielsen

This post Parenting and Teaching our Children in Grace by my friend, Ruth Simons, discusses an essential component of teaching and training our children. I couldn't think of a better completion to any discussion on education than by focusing on grace.

Grace-filled parenting is gospel-centered parenting. God dealt grace to us on the Cross. Grace-filled parenting is modeling that grace in the way we train up our children, and in the substance of what we are training them with. Grace-filled parenting remembers that God forgave us, and patiently corrected us in our foolishness. Grace-filled parenting follows Christ’s example of love: based on His character, not how loveable we are. The highest goal of grace-filled, gospel-centered parenting, is to lead our children to true repentance, salvation, and a fervent love for the Lord.

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