Effectively teaching our kids about modesty means starting inside out.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Don't start with the list.

Start with the principles of God's Word.

Teach your children beginning at the earliest stages what God thinks

and what are the principles that need to govern our lives when it comes to modesty.

Welcome to revive our hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss. It's Thursday, June 15th.

We want our kids to have formal instruction in math, English, and history.

We buy them formal lessons in piano or ballet or painting.

We put them on teams to learn soccer or gymnastics.

So who's teaching them about modesty? Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

One of the most important principles that you'll find repeated over and over and over again in the Old Testament in particular is the importance of parents teaching their children the ways of God.

Ladies, if you don't teach your children how to think biblically, don't expect that the world is going to teach them how to think in a way that is right.

And what a responsibility is yours as a parent, as a mom, to teach your children the ways of God?

And that's true in this area of modesty, teaching your children to have a heart for modesty

and understand the importance and the need for modesty and what it means to be modest in every area of their lives,

including clothing matters.

So we've been talking about how to teach

your children in these areas, and we said that it's vital that you model a consistent example

in your standards for modesty and how you live that out and the kind of entertainment that you

enjoy and approve of for yourself and for your children. But you know, it's not just enough to

set an example. If you don't set an example, this next point you won't be able to do effectively.

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