I was listening to Adrian Rogers of Love Worth Finding this morning on KCCV Radio in Kansas City. He asked a series of questions that made me stop to think. I’d like to ask you the same questions:

1) Are you upset that efforts are being made to remove the posting of the Ten Commandments from Schools and other Public Buildings?
2) Do you have the Ten Commandments posted in your home?
3) Can you state all ten commandments?

1) Are you bothered that our children are being told they cannot pray in school?
2) Do you actively pray with your children at home?

This series is titled “It Takes A Family”.

There is a lot a media today about people fighting for the posting of the Ten Commandments and for allowing “religious” activity in our schools, but that is not where the training should originate. How can we complain that that Ten Commandments poster is not allowed to hang in the classroom when we don’t even have it posted in our homes? Why should we expect the schools to teach the values of the Ten Commandments when we can’t even name them all? It is not the school’s responsibility to teach this. We must teach these from birth to our children in our homes. Proverbs 22:6 tells us to “Train up a child in the way he should go; Even when he is old he will not depart from it” We as parents are responsible to instill this in our children.

And we can’t just SAY the words, we have to LIVE the words. What am I teaching my child if I say “do not lie” and the child overhears me telling lies in conversations with other people? How can I say “do not steal” and then not return the extra $5 the cashier gave me by mistake?

I would like to keep prayer and commandments in school, but before I go on a media and political rampage, I need to first look into my own home and life.