Training Character
(^) Let’s take a character quality like dependability. How does
training in dependability fit this definition:
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(^) The background material in the two columns above forms the
basis for your communication with your child as you help him to
learn to be dependable. You want to hold out who God is as a basis for
making choices about what he should do and be. His calling as a
creature is to be dependable. God does not simply lay it out as a rule
to follow, but has sent his Son to change people from the inside out so
that they can be what he has called them to be. God will fight
alongside of and in behalf of his child. Offer your exhortations and
encouragements in a way that is consistent with your child’s nature
and God’s.
(^) You cannot, with integrity, tell your child that if he tries hard
enough, if he is good enough, if he really wants it, he can be what God
has called him to be. He can’t. It is not native to him apart from