7. Make prayer a regular part of your public, and private, life.
We don’t just pray at church, or when other people are watching us. We pray together as a family even when it’s not what we ‘have’ to do.
When all you do is pray at church, and for others to see, you create an unhealthy, hypocritical dynamic for your children.
8. Don’t rip your pastor in front of your kids.
I don’t try to hold our local church, or any, on a pedestal of perfection … but I also guard my words carefully so that my son doesn’t grow up with a jaded view of the bride for whom Christ died.
I don’t want him thinking everybody is perfect, but I also don’t want him growing up not trusting anyone.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6
Do your kids enjoy church?
What about you? What did your parents do to help you not hate church?
