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1 | Accountability for raising Godly kids | Eph 5:22 | magellan2019 | 174609 | ||
Which parent has the primary responsibility for raising a child? Background: I am currently in the middle of a divorce (Biblically supported after much prayer, study, and counsel), and I believe I am being called overseas to serve God in Indonesia. I have studied and prayed and counseled and studied and prayed and counseled and studied and pra....you get the idea. This question is not about my divorce, my calling, or to where I'm being called. It is about my children. Someone suggested to me that it could be better for my children to bring them with me rather than staying here in the States with their mother. This would be a solution to the one issue that I have yet to resolve in my heart - that is, what about my responsibility to raise Godly children? If I follow my calling and go overseas, am I abandoning my responsibility to my children? Is there anything in the Bible about which parent bears the primary burden of child-rearing? How can I respond to the call of God without abandoning my responsibility to my children? Please note, I am not asking "which parent should raise the kids?" I am fully aware that both parents have an equal contribution to the rearing of a child, however, when all is said and done, I believe the *accountability* of the child-rearing falls on the father. I just don't know the Biblical references, and I don't know how much, if any, accountability lies with the mother, Biblically speaking. I would appreciate any responses (especially Biblical references) to my primary question anyone can provide. Thanks! |
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2 | Accountability for raising Godly kids | Eph 5:22 | BradK | 174610 | ||
Dear Magellan, I would look to Eph. 5:22-30 for starters. I believe there is a Biblical order vertically in a marriage/family relationship that establishes the husband as head. Eph. 5:22-23 says; "Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body." This has support up all the way back to Genesis with the creation of Adam. (Gen. 2:7, 15-17, ff.) 1 Peter 3:1, 5-7 deals with submission in marriage. Note verse 1, "In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives..." I trust this will help for starters. BradK |
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3 | Raising Godly Children | Eph 5:22 | magellan2019 | 174695 | ||
Brad, I appreciate your input here. Thank you! This is a passage I am familiar with, and it does help to re-read it. However, it does not, I feel, answer my question satisfactorily. I guess I'm looking for something that will help me determine whether I should be pushing to keep my children with me, regardless of being overseas, or whether they should be staying with their mother, in which case, how do I live up to my responsibility to ensure they are raised up in the way of God? Does my being called away from my children (in the manner of Luke 18:29) relinquish me of that responsibility, or is there some middle ground somewhere? |
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4 | Raising Godly Children | Eph 5:22 | lionheart | 174701 | ||
magellan, I am quite relateable to your situation,being divorced and a single father of two boy's.My x and I are both disciples of Jesus Christ today, I regrete that we were not when we were married, but that relieves either one of us of being parents cause parents we will always be no matter what. I am grateful that the boys mother and I are both born again christians today doing what we can to live our lives for God. So if there had to be a choice made as to who the boys would be with I would have had no worries as to if they would recieve a godly up bringing. Brad and Mark have both given you solid advice in this. It is both of yours responsibilities to raise your children in a Godly manner. If your wife is not up to that, then my brother that responsibility must fall to you. What ever God is calling you to God will provide what ever it takes to get you where he wants you. Philippians 4:19 In Christ, lionheart |
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