Our first duty is to our ministry at home. And that duty cannot be delegated.
“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” — Joel 1:3
This is our first duty, we are to begin at the family hearth: he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home….
To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation; proxies and sponsors are wicked devices in this case: mothers and father must, like Abraham, command their households in the fear of God, and talk with their offspring concerning the wondrous works of the Most High.
Parental teaching is a natural duty — who so fit to look to the child’s well-being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish.
Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
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