Childrearing (Part 4)
Object Of Our Affection
John W. Ritenbaugh
Biblestudy; #BS-CR04; 80 minutes
Given 12-Dec-871987-12-12
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John Ritenbaugh observes that children do not initiate love; they reflect love. If the child does not receive a convincing demonstration of this love, he will not become a conductor of love, but will become fearful, anxious, and lacking self-esteem. Realizing that all behavior is learned, and that character is nothing more than acquired habit, we need vital God-centered instruction in child-rearing. In the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4), we receive specific guidelines on instructing our children — emphasizing continuous intense love and devotion through our words, example, and behavior. Reflecting that children learn what they live, we must rear children with a view to their future spiritual destiny rather than our own self-centeredness. We demonstrate love for our children through eye contact, physical contact (touching or hugging), and focused attention (time).
- Affection
- Affection, Lacking
- Anxiety
- charisma
- Childrearing
- Children as Gift
- Children, Attitude toward
- Children, Correcting
- Children, Left Alone
- Children, Loving
- Children, Teaching
- Children, Training
- Covenant
- Deception
- Devotion
- Diligence
- Elohim
- Embracing
- Environment, Influence of
- Example, Teaching by
- Eyes
- Family Problems
- Fathers, Role of
- Fear, Love Casts Out
- Fear, Overcoming
- Feminization
- Focus
- Fulfillment
- Generation
- God as Parent
- God as Source of Love
- God's Chastening
- God's Love
- God's Revelation
- God's Revelation of Himself
- Godly Love
- Husband as Head
- Idle, Learning to be
- Idleness
- Ignorance
- Inconsistency
- Insecurity
- Irritability
- Kindness
- Laying On of Hands
- Leah
- Longsuffering
- Love as Action
- Love, Lack of
- Love, Poured Out
- Love, Source of
- Love, Unconditional
- Loving God with all our Heart, Soul, Mind
- Many Gods, Many Lords
- Mothers, Role of
- Needs, Physical
- Offspring, Godly
- One God
- Parenting
- Parents
- Parents' Example
- Parents, Representing God
- Parents, Responsibility of
- Patience
- Peace as Environment for Righteousness
- phileo
- Priorities
- Rachel
- Relationships, Parent-Child
- Reproof
- Restraint, Casting off
- Revelation, Lacking
- Rod of Correction
- Self Confidence
- Self Esteem
- Self Fulfillment
- Selfishness
- Sharpening
- Shema
- Time, Making Right Use of
- Touch, Sense of
- Widows, Care of
- Wife, Role of
- Wives, Submitting to Husbands
- Woman as Homemaker
- Woman as Keeper at Home
- Women, Responsibility of
- Women, Role of
- Work Ethic
- Worship, Object of
- Yahweh
- YHWH Elohim
- More...
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