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My wife has the same convictions. The struggle I have is that when my kids go out into the world without mom and dad then what will they be? I am not trying to influence you either way as I struggle with this too. I try to look long term. By that I mean I want my children to be equipped to be missionaries or preachers. I feel like if I pull them out to be homeschooled that I am putting them in a bubble. The ideal situation, in my mind, is that my children learn to bare the burdens of persecution and make the right decision no matter what surrounds them.

Maybe I am wrong but I don't want my boys to be unequipped to handle the real world, not from an eduication standpoint but a spiritual one.

Too many adults and children today don't know how to accept persecution for the cause of Christ. It has made our churches soft and self centered today. If anything I really should pull my kids out of school and have them in the Bible everyday, all day and spend every hour possible proclaiming the gospel. That's all that matters anyway.

 

Ecclesiastes 1:14

 

P.S. the movie doesn't matter. PG-13 this week. Next week it will be R movies. When they leave home it will be pornography. Teach them early to honor God and do what is right no matter what surrounds them.

 

Go to goodpreachin.com and look for Larry Brown. He only has one sermon listed and it's called "Amnon had a friend"

It's about choosing your friends and the concequences of it. Sit down with your kids and listen to it with them. I promise it's really good.

We train new soldiers before sending them into the world. We train new cops before sending them into the world. Scripture seems to indicate the importance of having our children trained before we send them into the world as well.

 

While there are some who homeschool in a bubble, the vast majority do not, and especially those who are Christian. Typically their homeschooled children are very involved in their church, in volunteer activities, community service and the like. Most homeschooled children from good Christian families enter the world very well prepared to face what they know is there. They tend to be far more mature than their peers, better able to handle themselves well with various age groups, are better spoken, have better discernment, and are, most importantly, far more grounded in Christ than most.

 

We don't have to toss our children into shark infested waters for them to learn the dangers of sharks, how to properly beware, what to do if/when sharks are in the water.

 

A parents jOB is to protect their children from evil, not expose them to it. We are to prepare them to recognize evil, be strong and wise in the Lord to discern evil, flee or stand strong against evil, and to avoid temptation from and/or to evil.

 

Sin permeates the world, even with our best efforts, our children will see evil and sin, be exposed to such in various ways and degrees, and will face the same battles with the world, the flesh and devil everyone faces. The best we can do is limit the amount, prepare them ahead of time, help them come to Christ early and grow in Christ consistently, train them as good soldiers of Christ so when the day comes they are thrust onto the battlefield, whether slowly or abruptly, they will far better trained and equipped than most others.

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Go to goodpreachin.com and look for Larry Brown. He only has one sermon listed and it's called "Amnon had a friend"

It's about choosing your friends and the concequences of it. Sit down with your kids and listen to it with them. I promise it's really good.

I remember that sermon! I don't usually remember individual sermons, especially after so long, but that one really made an impact on me at the time. :)

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I struggle to understand why we feel so attacked with our kids lately, and yet we are still stricter with our kids than any other parent in the IFB school.    My husband reminds me that they likely have attacks too but we just don't know about it.  But man, I dunno....

 

That's why. The Devil doesn't attack Christian homes with lenient rules as often as he does Christian homes with strict rules and boundaries. He is just trying to get you to loosen up your rules so he can get ahold of your kids. Be careful and keep up your good fight. 

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I will stick to a state where the storms are never given names, and are never in the national news.  The only danger we have from nature here is attacks by bears and cougars, but at least you can shoot them.   :bleh:  :ot:

Good point brother I come from the mountains yet somehow live on an Island on he Atlantic cost we just don't have hurricanes to think about but earth quakes as well I'm retiring soon and going back to the hills gonna Praise the lord get myself a mule plow a garden and be happy.

God bless brother 

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That's why. The Devil doesn't attack Christian homes with lenient rules as often as he does Christian homes with strict rules and boundaries. He is just trying to get you to loosen up your rules so he can get ahold of your kids. Be careful and keep up your good fight. 

That's correct. The closer we walk with the Lord, the more the Enemy takes notice. This is why shortly after we experience a "mountaintop experience" we find ourselves under great attack (think of Elijah as a great example of this).

 

The devil doesn't mind much if we try to coast along and he certainly isn't bothered if we compromise, don't take our faith too seriously, keep our faith private, try to fit in with the world around us. However, if we are striving to grow in Christ, to build our families upon the Word, train our children to be godly, the Enemy is going to see that as a threat and we become one of his targets.

 

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12

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I've recently shook up my prayer life/schedule, as I've shared elsewhere, and I think the additional time in prayer and my reinvigorated prayer time has caught the devils attention. After nearly three years of blissful peace from our unstable cranky old neighbor, he came charging out his door today threatening to shoot me with a shotgun and cussing me loudly. All this, according to him, because some leaves ended up in the street when I mowed.

 

This guy yelled so loud, even after his wife finally dragged him back inside and he started yelling from the window. that my wife heard him at the table in our house and another of our neighbors heard him from inside her house and she came outside to see what was going on.

 

Following the Word which tells us to live at peace with others as much as we can on our part, I ignored him; not looking at him or saying a word. My wife is worried the guy might finally lose it and carry out his threat (others may remember he's threatened be with death twice before) and may even try to shoot her and our son too. She thinks I should call the police and report him. My Dad thinks the same. I'm going to pray about the matter and see if I can spend some quiet time to hear what the Lord would have me do.

 

Prayers would be appreciated regarding this matter.

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That's correct. The closer we walk with the Lord, the more the Enemy takes notice. This is why shortly after we experience a "mountaintop experience" we find ourselves under great attack (think of Elijah as a great example of this).

 

The devil doesn't mind much if we try to coast along and he certainly isn't bothered if we compromise, don't take our faith too seriously, keep our faith private, try to fit in with the world around us. However, if we are striving to grow in Christ, to build our families upon the Word, train our children to be godly, the Enemy is going to see that as a threat and we become one of his targets.

 

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12

 

This is kind of what I was meaning in my previous post. If your children are saved then they are the salt of the earth. I feel that my kids can have a great impact for the lost if they are seen by the lost and witness to the lost. There's pro's and cons to each side. A public school kid can be all and more of the things you described. It all falls on the family life and the leadership in the home. The school is not the authority on teaching no more than the church is responsible for your children's walk with God. Good Thread.

 

 

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

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That's why. The Devil doesn't attack Christian homes with lenient rules as often as he does Christian homes with strict rules and boundaries. He is just trying to get you to loosen up your rules so he can get ahold of your kids. Be careful and keep up your good fight. 

 

 

We did have more lenient rules (but still stricter than many others) and already reaped some bad consequences from it...so now we are backtracking with our kids.  I think they understand, even though I'm not sure it makes it any easier on them.

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We did have more lenient rules (but still stricter than many others) and already reaped some bad consequences from it...so now we are backtracking with our kids.  I think they understand, even though I'm not sure it makes it any easier on them.

Take comfort that as they grow older they will come to understand and most likely be thankful.

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We did have more lenient rules (but still stricter than many others) and already reaped some bad consequences from it...so now we are backtracking with our kids.  I think they understand, even though I'm not sure it makes it any easier on them.

It doesn't make it any easier on them. But what it does do is teach them that their parents know they are human and can err...but are willing, ready, and able to admit it and change what needs to be changed.  And they will be better adults for it.

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As the parents of seven children from ages 13 to 23, all of them homeschooled, I would advise two things. First, stick with your convictions, they are right and proper. Secondly, for everything you have to take away from a child (ie. electronics, movies etc.) replace it with something else wholesome and good. Never leave a vacuum. It will be filled by someone or something behind your back.

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