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Reaching the next generation

Brothers and Sisters:

God has given me an insatiable burden for the next generation. My passion, I know, is shared by many of you. God has been openning many doors in our ministry via our national campaign to equip parents to prepare their children for the Lord's service. I have recently been featured on LeSea's The Harvest Show, Concerned Women for America. SRN News with Micheal Harrington, and numerous other shows detailing this vision for equipping parents.

Let's start by introducing some statistics.

96% of parents believe they are responsible for their children’s values training.
85% of parents believe they are responsible for their children’s spiritual training.
Yet, only a mere 19% have ever received any guidance or instruction from their church to fulfill these heart-felt desires (actually Biblical mandates).

The juice is that the enemy wants our children. It is not the liberals or Hollywood. It’s Satan himself using these forces to steal our children from under our noses. Parents want to stop the assault, but are not equipped. In fact, this is the void we set out to fill when we wrote our book—to equip and encourage parents to fulfill their Biblical mandate.

The church with all good intentions, has been working on the symptoms—the children, when the real problem is poorly equipped parents. It is parents responsibility, and they agree. However, the church as a whole is not supporting them in their efforts. Rather, the church is actually perpetuating the problem by providing helps that were originally intended for evangelism (again, with all good intentions), but now serve as crutches taking the responsibility for Biblical instruction from the parents. You will not find these children's programs in the Word, just parents, the Word, and children (Eph 6:4, Deut 6:4-7).

Satan laughs. He is a shrewd foe. The only weapon to stand against his attack is God’s Word (the sword in Eph 6:10…, all else is defensive). It is the church’s responsibility to equip parents for offensive parenting. Our book fills this void--it is proactive (or offensive) parenting—that is, parenting with a sword in your hand, like Nehemiah when they rebuilt the wall.

Another study cited in our book demonstrates that a mere 2% of children will become faithful church attenders if their father is not. Ouch!!! So what do we do?

I urge you to join me and heed the call to action to empower parents to live out the verses cited above. Reach parents with the wisdom and truth God's Word has to offer. Parents, I urge you to read the book--I'm not just trying to sell, honestly--get it at Walmart.com and I make pennies. Read the words and apply the wisdom.

Pastors, I offer myself to speak and do workshops at no expense. I will email you a free e-book to encourage you to encourage those entrusted by God to your care. The next generation is being bombarded by conflicting values. Do not invest all in one hour a week and neglect the driver for the remaining 167 hours. Reach the parents and you will win the children. Plunder Hell. Join me in this vision.

God bless you all,

Marc Carrier
Author of The Values-Driven Family
marc.carrier@valuesdrivenfamily.com
http://valuesdrivenfamily.com

posted by Marc Carrier @ 6:44 PM