Waiting2BwithHim Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 248 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 373 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 113 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/18/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/10/1963 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Here's a scenario.. let's say that there's a brother 8/sister 7 that was put up for adoption. The biological parents taught the kids there was no God. This is what they know now. Now this couple who believes in God adopts these children and tell the kids there's a God. They so no there isn't. My parents said there wasn't. How then would you go on to teach the kids there's a God? What would you do after all your trying to tell them they still won't believe you. What then would you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,569 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,048 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted June 27, 2019 I'd not worry too much about it, but share of the word of God in all matters by both word and by deed regardless. My parents did not ascribe to a belief in God. Yet my grandmother did and read the Bible to me regardless, every time we visited her. She prayed for me. Decades after her death the fruit planted with her prayer and her sharing came to fruition, for God hears prayer. The Holy Spirit up and turned me about one day just flipped me around and I knew God. jesu sis Lord my Lord and savior. God is sovereign. He has foreknown and those he has foreknown he has predestined, and Jesus His Son does not lose a one given Him by His Father. His own are but to obey as it pleases God that his own do so. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,300 Content Per Day: 1.72 Reputation: 1,685 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2019 As Neighbour has said, the priority is showing love, care and commitment to those kids abandon by their parents. Settle them into a daily routine which includes a bible story and prayers before going to sleep. If they want to discuss whether there is, is not a God. To be gentle in presenting evidence for God as this is a memory of their parents that is being dismanteled. I would want to stress that regardless of what they believe they are accepted and loved. That there role was to grow up and to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,403 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,824 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2019 I have to agree. Oftentimes one of the best witnessing tools is living as God would have us live. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Patriot21 Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 28 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 15,710 Content Per Day: 2.46 Reputation: 8,526 Days Won: 39 Joined: 10/25/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/27/1985 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Time and patience... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Waiting2BwithHim said: Here's a scenario.. let's say that there's a brother 8/sister 7 that was put up for adoption. The biological parents taught the kids there was no God. This is what they know now. Now this couple who believes in God adopts these children and tell the kids there's a God. They so no there isn't. My parents said there wasn't. How then would you go on to teach the kids there's a God? What would you do after all your trying to tell them they still won't believe you. What then would you do? I would tell the children that their biological parents were wrong. There is a God. I would take them to Sunday School to be around other children who know God. I would read them Bible stories when they go to bed and as a family you should pray at the table and read devotions as a family. Allow them to see that God is a part of your family by the way you live. Don't continually correct them but if they ask questions about God answer them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Alive Posted June 27, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,024 Content Per Day: 1.33 Reputation: 1,224 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/05/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Waiting2BwithHim said: Here's a scenario.. let's say that there's a brother 8/sister 7 that was put up for adoption. The biological parents taught the kids there was no God. This is what they know now. Now this couple who believes in God adopts these children and tell the kids there's a God. They so no there isn't. My parents said there wasn't. How then would you go on to teach the kids there's a God? What would you do after all your trying to tell them they still won't believe you. What then would you do? Teach by example. Pray together in front of them. Share with them the simplicity of the Gospels as a starting point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted June 28, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,569 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,048 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted June 28, 2019 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spock Posted June 28, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,239 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 1,686 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/26/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted June 28, 2019 22 hours ago, Waiting2BwithHim said: Here's a scenario.. let's say that there's a brother 8/sister 7 that was put up for adoption. The biological parents taught the kids there was no God. This is what they know now. Now this couple who believes in God adopts these children and tell the kids there's a God. They so no there isn't. My parents said there wasn't. How then would you go on to teach the kids there's a God? What would you do after all your trying to tell them they still won't believe you. What then would you do? Be patient.....you have years of indoctrination to overcome. Keep praying and keep planting the seeds. Show them some God videos...kids love that. Keep reading kid Bible stories every night and discuss with them. It is just a matter of time, sister. They are God’s now....that is why He brought them to you. (Wink) im praying too......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr3032 Posted June 28, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 332 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 273 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/23/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted June 28, 2019 My time as a Christian child was very short, and then my parents left the church and haven't returned since. I went through an atheistic period as a teenager, only to turn back to the Bible later. Those roots, the beginning points, can mean allot. I'd recommend simply setting a good example and not being too forceful about it. Children aren't often quite able to appreciate and comprehend such things until they're older, anyhow. Don't forget to pray, either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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