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    How Should We View Our Children in the Church?
    How Should We View Our Children in the Church?
    How Should We View Our Children in the Church?
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    How Should We View Our Children in the Church?

    By Joel R. Beeke

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    How should we as parents view our children in the church as we are tasked with bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? How should we as congregants view the children in our churches, whom we have a solemn responsibility to evangelize and instruct? In this booklet Joel R. Beeke discusses theological and practical foundations for raising and nurturing children in light of the covenant of grace.

    Contents:
    Encouragement Through the Covenant
    Children of the Covenant
    The Covenant Promise
    Rearing Children by Faith
    Bringing Children to Christ
    Series Description

    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most all is “to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’” As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReformation Heritage Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781601787385
    Author

    Joel R. Beeke

    Dr. Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, a pastor of Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Mich., and editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books. He is author of numerous books, including Parenting by God’s Promises, Knowing and Growing in Assurance of Faith, and Reformed Preaching.

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      How Should We View Our Children in the Church? - Joel R. Beeke

      HOW SHOULD WE

      VIEW CHILDREN

      IN THE CHURCH?

      JOEL R. BEEKE

      REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS

      GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

      How Should We View Children in the Church?

      © 2019 by Joel R. Beeke

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Direct your requests to the publisher at the following addresses:

      Reformation Heritage Books

      2965 Leonard St. NE

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      ISBN 978-1-60178-737-8

      ISBN 978-1-60178-738-5 (e-pub)

      For additional Reformed literature, request a free book list from Reformation Heritage Books at the above regular or e-mail address.

      CULTIVATING BIBLICAL GODLINESS

      Series Editors

      Joel R. Beeke and Ryan M. McGraw

      Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most of all is to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’ As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

      HOW SHOULD WE

      VIEW CHILDREN

      IN THE CHURCH?

      For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

      —Acts 2:39

      Christian parents want to faithfully glorify God in their calling to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and to see them get saved and grow as disciples of Jesus. How then should we view and raise our children in the church? God points us to His own triune being and His salvation as well as to the covenant of grace, which grounds and encourages our view and raising of our children in the church. The covenant of grace is that bond between God and His people in Christ, first revealed in God’s promise of a Savior given to Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:15) and confirmed by the

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