Today’s Thought “How’s All That Working?” G. Ward Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he grows older he will not abandon it. What does it mean when we endeavor scripture and witness an opposite effect of its demand upon so many testimonials of having been raised in the church, yet experienced great spiritual abandonment (for weeks, month, years, decades)? Instead, the whole of mankind have been called towards an interrogation of Holy God’s Word for what it’s saying, rather than to pre-suppose its meaning. Resolute Answer: Our instruction as parents, was never meant to relegate the message of eternality unto spiritual institutions. Worship centers are only meant to accentuate what is greatest priority. To absolutely model with insistence what it means to walk with the Lord, along with teaching them how to love the Almighty with their whole being REMAINS the precedent (*Deut.6:4-7). Spiritual abandonment is not likely to be named among any when the beholder of instruction has no where to venture outside of practiced dependence (*cf. John 6:64-69). As I close onto digression that seeks to question with drawing a contrast pertinent, what if general education, along with social skills with small children was met similarly? (…)