Education School: Teaching Christian generations Metanoia

Teaching Future Christian Generations with Metanoia

In Deuteronomy 6:7, the Israelites are instructed to pass on the commandments to their children: “You shall teach them diligently to your children.” This was not just a set of rules but an encapsulation of God’s character and love. The aim is that the love of God should be made known to successive generations.

“Teaching Future Christian Generations” emphasizes the importance of imparting Christian values and teachings to younger generations, ensuring that they grow in faith, understand Christian principles and history, and are equipped to live out their beliefs in a rapidly changing world. This concept often involves a blend of traditional and innovative educational methods, fostering a deep, personal relationship with God, and encouraging a life that exemplifies Christian morals and service to others.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.