There is nothing we need more greatly in the church of the Lord than a proper arranging of priorities. God has always demanded first place in the lives of His people (Exodus 20:36; Matt. 22:37; 6:33). In fact, with God, it is first place or no place. And the home is the best place for proper priorities to be indelibly written on the hearts of our children when the following things are adhered to:
1. When we are early to the ballgame, but late to worship services.
2. When we see that our children do their school work but never check to see if they have completed their Bible school lesson.
3. When they cannot stay up late on school nights lest it infringe upon their school work, but they can stay up and watch the “late show” on Saturday night, even though they will be attending Bible school the next morning.
4. We will not let them miss school, even though they do not want to attend, but we cater to their whims and let them miss Bible school because they happen not to want to attend that day.
5. We know the names of their public school teachers but we cannot call the names of all their Bible school teachers.
6. We will serve as room mother or president of the PTA at public school but we will never take part in arranging for various functions for their Bible class.
7. We attend their public school open house but do not attend the open hour on the closing day of Vacation Bible School.
8. We will not take our vacation so as to cause them to miss any school, but we have no qualms of conscience about taking our vacation during the time of VBS or a gospel meeting.
9. They see us go to work even though we do not feel too well, but stay at home from church services when just as “sick.”
10. They see us avidly look at and study their school work, but never pay any attention at all to the handwork brought home from their Bible classes. Yes, with such situations prevailing, what priorities are established in the hearts of our children?
[This article article was penned and published by brother Winkler in February 1995]
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