The Parent’s Role in a Child’s Gender Development

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🗓️ 11 April 2013

⏱️ 5 minutes

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God calls parents to love their children enough to shape them into future men and women. But how much influence should a parent have?

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0:00.0	In our culture today, it appears that children are increasingly given the free choice to
0:08.9	develop as men or women.
0:10.8	There's an assumption that personal manhood or womanhood is a choice that will necessarily
0:15.2	emerge in the child and in their personal choices.
0:19.2	Pastor John, in a young girl developing towards biblical womanhood or in a young boy developing
0:24.9	towards biblical manhood, how much of this development should be influenced by godly parents?
0:32.2	All of it.
0:34.9	Children, obey your parents in everything, in everything, for this pleases the Lord,
0:45.0	Colossians 3.20, which if you just flip that around and ask, what does that imply for
0:51.0	parents?
0:52.0	If the Bible says to our children, obey your parents in everything, okay, now parents,
0:56.9	what does that imply for you?
0:57.9	That implies you better know your Bible, you better know culture enough so that you can
1:05.3	give in everything counsel and guidance to these children so that they can fulfill without
1:13.8	sinning the biblical mandate to obey you in everything.
1:19.3	Deuteronomy 11.
1:20.8	I shall teach all these words of mine to your children, talking to them when you're
1:25.2	sitting in your house and walking by the way and lying down and rising up, right them
1:32.8	on your doorposts and put them on your gates.
1:36.0	That is a description of pervasive, word-saturated guidance and inspiration and encouragement for
1:44.2	our children.
1:45.2	No thought of laissez-faire, let them grow up and discover what's right and wrong for
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