The Education of Children for God Is Every Parent's Primary Purpose

"The education of children for God

is the most important business done on earth.

It is the one business for which the earth exists.

To it all politics, all war, all literature,

all money-making, ought to be subordinated;

and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day,

that, next to making his own calling and election sure, 

this is the end for which he is kept alive by God

--this is his task on earth."

Quote by  R. L. Dabney

Robert Lewis Dabney was a great American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also Chief of Staff and biographer for General Stonewall Jackson. 

Dabney rightly saw God's perspective on education, which is a multi-generational vision of educating generations for Christ according to Psalm 78:4-7, Deuteronomy 6:5-7, and Matthew 28:18-20.

God has always assigned this greatest task, this most important business, to Christian parents; that is, to the family and the home, and never to the government or state. This is the primary purpose of every parent and the main reason that God gives parents the gift and stewardship of His children.

God our heavenly Father desires "godly offspring" (Malachi 2:15) and has commanded all Christian parents to "tell the generations to come the praises of the Lord" so that they should teach their children and their grandchildren "to put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments (Psalm 78:5,7)." I encourage every Christian to meditate upon Psalm 78:1-11 before the Lord day after day for twenty-one days, asking the Spirit of Truth to give you a revelation of the mind of Christ regarding how to educate your children according to Christ, how to educate your children for God.


Thank you for visiting my blog on Preparing parents grandparents and teachers for their primary purpose of educating generations for Christ. This is Josiah Friberg asking you to check back often for my most recent Christian education postings on Kingdom education, Christian schools, homeschooling, Psalm78 education and ministry, and the dangers of public schools. Consider adding my RSS FEED so you can keep up to date on godly alternatives to public schools. This article was posted by Josiah Friberg of Educating Generations For Christ, on his Christian Education blog: www.alleducationisreligious.blogspot.com.

Psalm 78 Educating Generations for Christ

Educating Generations for Christ: Cornerstone Scripture

“We will not hide them [the words of God] from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.”  Psalm 78: 4-7

The Cornerstone:  The purpose of Kingdom education is to perpetuate our faith and covenant with God to our children and to teach them to pass it on to their children from generation to generation – Psalm 78:1-11.

  “Kingdom education” is a Christ-centered, Bible-based process of leading a child to Christ, discipling him in Christ, and equipping him to serve Christ and fulfill his Kingdom purpose. This is God’s plan to educate future generations with a God-centered worldview from which to think, act, and live according to God’s truth.

This equipping ministry is based on Christ’s gift of teaching and exists for “the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry,” so that parents and teachers can diligently educate future generations, in order to build them up their identity in Christ and in their faith & knowledge of God to spiritual maturity, so that they grow up in all aspects “into Christ.” Our mission is to equip parents and teachers to disciple the next generation to follow Jesus so that they are renewed in their minds, become rooted and grounded in His love, are established in their faith and in Christian character and self-government, and become “complete in Christ,” vessels of honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for their Kingdom assignments. The ultimate objective is to develop mature disciples of Jesus Christ whose lives glorify God because they are built on the foundation of Jesus Christ and obedience to His commandments (Mt. 28:19-20). 


Thank you for visiting my blog on Christian parents educating generations for Christ. This is Josiah Friberg asking you to check back often for my most recent Christian education and Kingdom education postings on Christian schools, homeschooling, and the dangers of public schools. Consider adding my RSS FEED so you can keep up to date on godly alternatives to public schools. This article was posted by Josiah Friberg on his Christian Education blog: www.alleducationisreligious.blogspot.com. For assistance, contact our ministry: Educating Generations for Christ.