On Sunday, we looked at Ephesians 6:4, which instructs fathers not to “exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”
Jim quoted the following definition from Andrew Lincoln in the Word Biblical Commentary, Ephesians on exasperating a child:
This involves avoiding attitudes, words, and actions which would drive a child to angry exasperation or resentment and thus rules out severe discipline, unreasonably harsh demands, abuse of authority, arbitrariness, unfairness, constant nagging and condemnation, subjecting a child to humiliation, and all forms of gross insensitivity to a child’s needs and sensibilities.
If that is a great summary of what not to do, I have included an additional resource on advice from the Bible on what to do when training and instructing children that Jim prepared for the sermon entitled, “Character Education,” which he gave on July 11, 2010 as part of our series on Proverbs — “Navigate Life.”
All is well,
Lisa