Zac Poonen - Important First Steps for Our Children
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Zac Poonen teaches that the foundational steps in raising children are teaching them obedience to parents, truthfulness, asking forgiveness, and thankfulness—beginning with these basics before addressing other spiritual matters. He emphasizes that children are born with a sinful nature and deceptive tendencies from infancy, requiring parents to consistently reinforce these core virtues through repetition, modeling, and early exposure to God's truth so they develop a clear conscience and can hear God's voice.
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Speaker: Zac Poonen Title: Important First Steps for Our Children Date: 02/09/2025 Our Goal as Christians is this: To be an exact reflection of Jesus, the Son of God (Romans 8:29) We do this individually by growing in purity in our personal lives (1 John 3:2-3) We do this corporately by becoming fully functioning members of a local Church (Ephesians 4:11-16)
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Zac Poonen teaches that parents must actively train children in godliness through discipline and instruction, emphasizing respect for authority, truthfulness, hard work, and self-denial as foundational values. He stresses that God's promise in Proverbs 22:6 is dependable, and that parents who fail to discipline are showing hatred rather than love, following God's example of disciplining His children. Poonen argues that consistent, biblical parenting produces godly children who walk with the Lord throughout their lives.
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