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Teaching Your Kids God's Money Principles

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We need to do more than teach children that the Bible is our guide and that God's principles are the ones to follow. We need to add the "why" and the "who." God instructs us to teach children this way: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:1-4). God tells children to honor and obey their parents, but He doesn't stop there. He tells them what the results will be: "That it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth." But that's not all. We have the privilege of taking our children beyond the rule and even beyond the reason for the rule. We get to take them to the Ruler. Jesus said, "Let the little children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me" (Matthew 19:14). We can show our children that God's ways and principles work out best for us because God is good and faithful and loves us. Talk about setting them up for life! With each financial principle we establish not only the rule but the reason, and with the reason we help them get to know the Ruler. Then we take what is learned and apply the principles to other areas of our children's lives, using what they learned in finances as an example. Doing this will elevate your parenting to a level far above average!

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