Growing up in a society that professes to value tolerance will challenge your children’s faith. Your children will not appreciate the need for a savior until they see themselves and others as sinners. If they’ve not experienced abuse, abandonment, addictions or other deep hurts (as I hope they haven’t), they probably see the people around them as good. That’s why children often struggle with accepting the Bible’s claim that man is sinful. Our humanistic culture treats man as basically good. This means you must regularly include statements like the following in your conversation: “We can always trust what God says” “God’s Word is always right” “Obey the Bible, and you’ll never be sorry.” Who is Man?
If you are not successful in teaching them that truth and wisdom come from the Bible, they will struggle greatly with faith challenges later. Your kids will be bombarded throughout life by truth claims from the media, teachers and friends. The story’s application ought to be, “Make sure you are on God’s side.” What is Truth? What can we learn about God from it? Many children’s materials conclude, “You can do anything if God is on your side.” But that is backward.
Take the story of David and Goliath for example. Is He an angry ogre ready to club you when you disobey? Use Bible stories to teach about God.
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