Teach your Grandchildren about the bible
Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:7 NIV
The little children blare it out at church, “The B-I-B-L-E! Yes, that’s the book for me. I stand upon the Word of God. The B-I-B-L-E! BIBLE!!!!”
I am not sure who enjoys it more: the children yelling “BIBLE” at the end or the adults knowing it’s coming and enjoying every moment of it.
During Vacation Bible School our children and staff repeat a pledge similar to this: “I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word, and will make it a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, and hide its words in my heart that I may not sin against God.” Then we proceed to teach the Bible to each student. We do not teach a math book, finance book, English book, etc. but we teach a specific book: The B-I-B-L-E.
There is no book in the history of the world with the impact of the Bible, because the Bible is indeed God’s Holy Word.
Men, even unbelievers, offer abundant testimony to this magnificent book. President Ronald Reagan says, “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” Augustine writes, “The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” The evangelist Billy Sunday preaches, “The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you!” And who can ever forget these words from the humorist Mark Twain, “It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I do understand!”
Have you found a better book than the Bible to teach your children and grandchildren? Have you found better stories to share than those in the Bible? Have you found better guidelines than Bible guidelines? Have you found a superior source of truth? Have you discovered better examples for your children than Bible characters like Abraham, Daniel, Jesus, etc.?
“The B-I-B-L-E. Yes, that’s the book for me!” But it will not become the book for them unless it is also the book for you.
Tom Swartzwelder was born again at the age of nine in an old-fashioned revival meeting. Tom received his B.A. from Tennessee Temple University and his M. Div from Luther Rice Seminary. He has pastored for nearly forty years in both bi-vocational and full-time roles. He provides practical how-to-do-ministry resources for the disciples of Jesus Christ. Tom’s latest book is “God Speaks–Today!”
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