Should Christian parents require their children to obey? What about grace? What if more than thoughtless obedience we want them to listen to our counsel when they’re teens? John Piper offers 9 observations to save your child from death and you from heartache:
Gracious parenting leads children from external compliance to joyful willingness.
Children need to obey before they can process obedience through faith. When faith comes, the obedience which they have learned from fear and reward and respect will become the natural expression of faith. Not to require obedience before faith is folly. It’s not loving in the long run. It cuts deep furrows of disobedient habits that faith must then not infuse, but overcome.
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