This is the final blog in our series titled “Sinners Raising Saints,” which has been an exploration of ways we can help keep healthy behavioral expectations for our kids without teaching them that God’s acceptance of them is based on their ability to behave well enough.
We are continuing to explore the idea of how we can create healthy behavioral expectations for our kids without teaching them that their acceptance is based on their own goodness.
I began this conversation in the previous blog with the recognition that there are some inherent tensions with trying to set healthy behavioral expectations for our kids while at the same time teaching them that God’s acceptance of them is not based on their own goodness.
Having grown up in the church, I seem to have developed an acute awareness of how I am supposed to behave. Things I should do, things I shouldn’t, things that will make me acceptable to God, and things that won’t get me in trouble with the Parents.
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