Billy Graham about disciplining children
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If you fail to
discipline your children… you are sinning against God.
Billy Graham:
“Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a
moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these
things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them.
Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young
people.” One of the fundamental
problems, according to Rev. Graham, is the failure of parents to fight “the
Devil in the home” through discipline and, as a result, “children are allowed
to go wild.”
“Parents
must spend time with their children, set a good example for them, discipline
them, and teach them to ‘know God,’” said the pastor, who has five children and
19 grandchildren. “If
you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments
and statutes of God,” said Rev. Graham. “You are guilty,not only of
injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of
sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your
children, you actually hate them.”
“The
best way to influence your children,” he
added, “is to set a good example because the majority of children acquire the
characteristics and habits of their parents.”
As
for teaching your children to know God, Rev. Graham said, “Very seldom do
parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the
home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most
trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is
neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ
gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear
children.”
There
is only one solution to combating the problems afflicting young people,
concluded Rev. Graham, and that answer is Christ: “Christ in the home, in
the lives of the parents, is the only permanent solution to the menacing
teenage social problems in America.”
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