儿童教育

Friday Night Children Bible Study

God Is Not a Shooting Star

After I prayed, Kimmy said she want to pray. "Of course, you can pray. " So Kimmy started to pray silently. " After a while, another child commented: "She is making a lot of wishes! " Kimmy raised her head and answered: "God is not a shooting start. "

The kindergartener surely got her theology right! Surely God heard her and would give her the best.

-- Quanlin

女儿未能去教会，怎么办？

全林, 8/31/2008

今天女儿没有赶上教会的主日学，非常伤心，直到爸爸答应晚上有家庭的崇拜。下面是我分享的圣经段落之一：

以色列阿！你要听，耶和华我们　神是独一的主。你要尽心、尽性、尽力、爱耶和华你的　神。 我今日所吩咐你的话，都要记在心上，也要殷勤教训你的儿女；无论你坐在家里，行在路上，躺下，起来，都要谈论。也要系在手上为记号，戴在额上为经文。又要写在你房屋的门框上，并你的城门上。 (申命记 6:4-9)

当我把这段话放到网页上的时候，我的手上就系着女儿做的经文手镯！手镯上的话选自诗篇：

我要向山举目，我的帮助从何而来？
我的帮助从造天地的耶和华而来。
他必不叫你的脚摇动，保护你的必不打盹。
保护以色列的，也不打盹，也不睡觉。
保护你的是耶和华，耶和华在你右边荫庇你。
白日太阳必不伤你，夜间月亮必不害你。
耶和华要保护你，免受一切的灾害，他要保护你的性命。
你出你入，耶和华要保护你，从今时直到永远。
(诗篇 121)

女儿学说话的时候，还未学会“no”，就先学会了“Amen”。把孩子们带到神的面前来，是我们作父母的义不容辞的责任。而我们也要用心向他们学习呢。下面是我分享的另一段经文：

有人抱着自己的婴孩来见耶稣，要他摸他们；门徒看见就责备那些人。耶稣却叫他们来，说：“让小孩子到我这里来，不要禁止他们；因为在　神国的，正是这样的人。我实在告诉你们，凡要承受　神国的，若不像小孩子，断不能进去。 (路加福音 18:15-17)

主耶稣，请帮助我的孩子们在恩典和真理中长大成人，请帮助我们都像小孩子一样进去　神的国。阿门！

为孩子们选的经文

全林, 2006

我们在你们那里的时候，曾吩咐你们说，若有人不肯作工，就不可吃饭。因我们听说，在你们中间有人不按规矩而行，什么工都不作，反倒专管闲事。我们靠主耶稣基督，吩咐劝戒这样的人，要安静作工，吃自己的饭。 (帖撒罗尼迦後书 3:10-12)

你们作儿女的，要在主里听从父母，这是理所当然的。要孝敬父母，使你们得福，在世长寿。这是第一条带应许的诫命。 (以弗所书 6:1-3)

耶和华阿！谁能寄居你的帐幕？能能住在你的圣山？
就是行为正直，作事公义，心里说实话的人；
他不以舌头谗谤人，不恶待朋友，也不随夥毁谤邻里；
他眼中藐视匪类，却尊重那敬畏耶和华的人；他发了誓，虽然自己吃亏，也不更改；
他不放债取利，不受贿赂以害无辜。
行这些事的人，必永不动摇。 (诗篇 15)

所以你们要完全，像你们的天父完全一样。 (马太福音 5:48)

你要细察那完全人，观看那正直人。因为和平人有好结局。 (诗篇 37:37)

若是能行，总要尽力与众人和睦。 (罗马书12:18)

少年人用什么洁净他的行为呢？是要遵行你的话。 (诗篇 119:9)

你当刚强壮胆。因为你必使这百姓承受那地为业，就是我向他们列祖起誓应许赐给他们的地。只要刚强，大大壮胆，谨守遵行我仆人摩西所吩咐你的一切律法，不可偏离左右，使你无论往哪里去，都可以顺利。 (约书亚记 1:6-7)

要常常喜乐。 (帖撒罗尼迦前书 5:16)

我知道世人，莫强如终身喜乐行善。
并且人人吃喝，在他一切劳碌中享福。这也是神的恩赐。 (传道书 3:12-13)

圣灵所结的果子，就是仁爱，喜乐，和平，忍耐，恩慈，良善，信实，温柔，节制。这样的事，没有律法禁止。 (加拉太书 5:22-23)

义人的父亲，必大得快乐；人生智慧的儿子，必因他欢喜。
你要使父母欢喜，使生你的快乐。 (箴言 23:24-25)

教养孩童，使他走当行的道，就是到老他也不偏离。 (箴言 22:6)

敬畏耶和华，是智慧的开端；认识至圣者，便是聪明。 (箴言 9:10)

怜悯贫穷的，就是借给耶和华；他的善行，耶和华必偿还。 (箴言 19:17)

Examination of Conscience

I. By children:
1. Not paying due respect to their parents, or by despising them either in their hearts or actions.
2. By not loving them, but wishing their death, or some misfortune; or by forsaking them in their necessities.
3. By not cheerfully obeying them; or by obeying them in things unlawful.
4. By slighting their representations, and resisting their corrections.
5. By putting them into a passion, and not taking care to pacify them.
6. By not executing their last will and testament, or by delaying to do so.

II. By parents not discharging their duty towards their children. 1. In not loving them, and supplying their corporal necessities.
2. In not being careful of their salvation.
3. In not correcting them when it is necessary; in flattering their passions, or indulging their evil inclinations.
4. In treating them with too much severity.
5. In not setting them good example.
6. In forcing them in the choice of their state in life.

Excerpt from Examination of Conscience

Four Dimensions of Parental Love

I. We love our children unconditionally: In the way we give them births, we love them, offering them no choice. We certainly desire that our love will become a two-way street. Nevertheless, we love unconditionally, from first to last.
II. We love our children with grace: We take delight in raising them, never give them a bill. In the moment they run away from us, we are already prepared to welcome them back with open arms and tender hearts. We always accept our children.
III We help our children to live their lives to the full: We earnestly and responsibly care for their physical, social, psychological, and spiritual development. We do not control them; we help them to grow self-control. We do not tell them "follow my advice but not my example"; we grow up with them.
IV. We share intimate relationship with our children: We empty our own needs and desires to to listen to them, understand them, encourage them, and share with them our feelings and thoughts.

In love there is no fear. In acceptance, there is no shame.

Adopted from "The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home (Second Edition)", by Jack O. Balswick & Judith K. Balswick

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