Hope Community Church: Moorestown

Parents and Kids: Same Planet, Different Worlds

Part 1 – Character and Attitude

Mark 9:37
37"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (NIV)
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Principles to Instill in Our Children

1) I Am Grateful

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

2) I Am Responsible

Galatians 6:5 (NIV)
5for each one should carry his own load.

3) I Am Not Perfect

Romans 12:3 (NIV)
 3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

4) I Can Exercise Self Control

Genesis 2:16-17 (NIV)
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

5) I Am Loved

1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.