We hear from grieving parents a lot, and I suppose that to parent in this broken world is pretty

much a guarantee of parental grieving.

I mean, we are going to grieve to some extent.

And so what do you do when your children grow up in the church, but then they leave the

faith and you're left with the lingering question over how you have failed them?

Today's email comes from a father.

Pastor John does God promise to save my children.

Some teachers say that I need to have faith and that I should claim it and that God would

save them.

I have four children, all raised in the local church, all walked away from the faith.

Two seem to be returning, but both struggle with sinful lifestyles.

The other two are very far from God.

I'm so depressed over my children's spiritual condition and have asked the Lord to forgive

me for being so depressed.

Do you have any advice for me?

So two painful questions.

Does the Bible promise to save our children?

What do I do if I feel like I have failed or I'm just depressed because I don't know?

First, does God promise to save my children?

That's the way some people can true Proverbs 22, 6 train up a child in the way he should

go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I doubt that it is an absolute promise that way, but a generalization as it stands that

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