![]() “I don’t think the Bible gives any absolute promise that faithful parenting will result in faithful children.” There are two painful questions here: (1) Does the Bible promise to save our children? (2) What do I do if I feel like I have failed or I’m just depressed because I don’t know? Promise to Save?įirst, does God promise to save my children? That’s the way some people construe Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go even when he is old he will not depart from it.” I doubt this is an absolute promise but is a generalization that we can hope for, pray for, and work for. I’m so depressed over my children’s spiritual condition and have asked the Lord to forgive me for being depressed. Two seem to be returning, but both struggle with sinful lifestyles. Today’s email comes from a father: “Pastor John, does God promise to save my children? Some teachers say that I need to have faith and that I should claim it and that God would save them. ![]() So what do you do when your children grow up in the church, but then leave the faith, and you are left with the linger question over how you failed them in the process. And I suppose that to parent in this broken world is pretty much a guarantee of parental grieving. ![]()
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