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Get Yourself Out.

Based on Genesis 12.1-5, the children of Nazareth Baptist Church, Santa Maria here in Accra, Ghana learn about what it means to believe.

They get to know that believe isn't just an intellectual assent but a behavorial conformity. They are also taught that Abram believed God (Gen 15.6) and his believe led him to obey. Man can say 'I believe, I have faith, I trust in, I rely on' as many times as he can but as long as he doesn't change his actions he's a liar.

The evidence that you believe is to obey. The evidence that you are saved is to follow. Apart from making my children memorise Gen 15.6 - "and Abram believed God," I also made them memorise "the only way to show you believe is to obey."

I am sick of the form of Christianity that teaches children to be just morally upright and forgets to tell them that God isn't pleased with morally upright people, but rather He's only pleased with blood bought sinners. Its not enough to just tell them the good things to do, they also need to be told of Him who has the grace they need to do the good things - JESUS. I can't tell any Bible story without talking about both the cost of not following Christ and the cost of following Him. WARNING: please when teaching children only refer them to adults you know with all evidence that they know the way of salvation. I give this warning for some weeks before after observing a boy who was so confident he was saved, I showed him from the Bible he wasn't and asked him to talk to the mother about it. That he did and the mum instead of using the Bible to teach the son the way of salvation asked him to say a prayer. What is wrong is that even after the prayer, the boy still isn't saved. If you ask how I know he isn't, my answer is "by their fruits you'll know them."

Anyway, getting to teach Reformed Theology to 5 - 12 years old children is fun but hard. They have to be reached with the gospel before they are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
NOTICE - THE ONLY EVIDENCE THAT YOU BELIEVE IS TO OBEY.

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