Each of these can make a beneficial contribution in the education of children. These include schooling at home, Christian or secular private institutions, public schools, and private tutoring. In many countries today Christian parents have a variety of options for the education of their children. ![]() Rather, they are to nurture and instruct them (Ephesians 6:4). Scripture cautions fathers about being overly demanding and thus provoking their children to anger or causing them to lose heart (Colossians 3:21). This is to be done with self-control, never in uncontrolled anger or in an injurious manner (Proverbs 19:18 29:15 Galatians 5:22,23 James 1:19,20). Scripture instructs parents to discipline their children when necessary. They should be diligent in teaching them God’s Word (Deuteronomy 6:6,7). Parents are responsible to raise their children in the knowledge of the Lord (Proverbs 22:6). We believe that the Christian whom God has called to remain unmarried is freed from certain concerns and more readily able to live with undistracted devotion to the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:7-9 25-35). We believe that the unborn child has a God-given soul from the moment of conception and should be protected as a precious gift from the Creator (Psalm 139:13-18). Sexual immorality is a sin against the body, which for a Christian is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:9-20 1 Thessalonians 4:3). Christians should flee all forms of sexual activity outside the bonds of marriage (Romans 1:24-27 Hebrews 13:4). It is also the means to complete God’s command to be fruitful (Genesis 1:28). We believe that God designed sexual union as an expression of love to be enjoyed between a husband and wife (Song of Solomon 4:1-5:1). We believe that a Christian should only marry another Christian (1 Corinthians 7:39 2 Corinthians 6:14-18) He should “grant her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life (1 Peter 3:7). A husband should nourish and cherish his wife, “just as Christ also does the church” (Ephesians 5:28). As Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, so husbands should sacrificially love their wives (Ephesians 5:25-28). As the church is to be subject to Christ, so a wife is to be subject to her own husband (Ephesians 5:22-24 1 Peter 3:1-6). ![]() We believe that Christian marriage is a picture of Christ’s relationship with His church (Ephesians 5:22-33). God then blessed Adam and Eve and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it,” (Genesis 1:28). Scripture comments, “For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). And so, God made Eve from Adam and he received her as his wife. ![]() In the opening chapters of the Bible, we read, “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone I will make him a helper suitable for him’” (Genesis 2:18). We believe that God instituted marriage and the family and has given us His design for them in the Scriptures.
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