As we think during this Easter season about the payment of death Christ made on our behalf, let’s ponder how it is reflected in the messages we communicate to our children.
Salvation comes to undeserving, dead sinners as a free gift of God, not by anything we do (Eph. 2:8–9). Yet the heart’s tendency toward works righteousness—thinking we can earn our salvation—runs deep. And if we’re not careful, it will seep out of us and into our children, leading them to potentially drown in its hopeless waters. Kristen Wetherell explores several ways we might parent by works righteousness (probably without even realizing it).
