How to Exasperate Your Children

Irish Calvinist ---- By Erik Raymond
Yesterday I preached on Colossians 3 and the way in which the new ‘house-table’ is to reflect the new humanity. In the midst of the study I was deeply effected by the danger of exasperating children to the point that they loose heart, as verse 21 says.

By way of application I came up with a list of 12 surefire ways to exasperate your children:

Be a hypocrite
Be a bully to them
Be harsh to them
Be Emotionally Distant from them
Show Favoritism to Other Kids
Have Unrealistic Standards
Be Mr Question your kid’s salvation guy
Be Mr Assure your kid’s salvation guy
Don’t discipline them
Discipline them without biblical instruction
Don’t teach them the Bible
Don’t connect discipline to the gospel

I ask my children's forgiveness for any of these that you feel that I did to you. There are some that I feel sure I did do and I am truly sorry.

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