What do you believe is the most important aspect of Christianity for your kids ?

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Forgiveness

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Anonymous wrote:That we are saved by the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

saved for what?[/

All we have is through the grace of God. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Christ died for our sins and if we accept his helping hand, we are saved. Salvation gives us a sense of gratitude and a desire to serve others - in serving others, we serve God for all humans bear the imago dei and are icons of the living God. In that way, when we feed a hungry person, we feed Christ himself.

My Lutheran 2 cents.

SO the main, perhaps only, reason to help a hungry person is because of Jesus?

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Anonymous wrote:My United Methodist version of Christianity has taught me that we are given eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus and that faith calls us to serve others and spread the gospel. Also, I think Methodism teaches that it's ok to have doubts and wrestle with our faith - we don't check our intellect at the door when we become Christians.

Is it OK to decide, after wrestling, that you no longer believe?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the messages I took away from my religious instruction growing up actually made me first feel like a failure as a Christian and then stop believing in God for about 15 years. Here's what I wish I had understood:

If you are a Christian, God doesn't magically fix all your flaws. God is the force that helps you keep trying to be a better person. It can be a very slow process.

Not hearing something you can definitely identify as the voice of God when you ask for help doesn't mean there's not a God.

I don't believe God changes the physical world, but praying can help us find the strength to help others and get through grief and hard times. If we expect God to heal Grandma, stop parents from fighting, etc. we are bound to be disappointed.

I think the most important message is to help others and be kind.

It sounds like you don't need god for anything at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic parent of a child with significant special needs (intellectual disability + physical disability + significant facial difference).

I want my child to know that they are made in the image of God.

Are you suggesting that God has special needs?

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Anonymous wrote:At that age I think it is important that they learn that Jesus is always with them and will help and guide them through life. If they let Him

or they can find human guides and learn to guides themselves.

Oh, great. Now there's a recipe for failure in life.

Many people who believe in God are not successful

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow I got volunteered to occasionally lead 4th grade church school (Episcopal) this year.

If you do send your children to religious school, what do you want them to come away with?

We do have a curriculum, but I'm trying to identify major themes to help organize my thinking about this year.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

I want my children coming away with a sense of personal relationship with God. I wan them to understand that prayer is just like talking with a friend. If they truly have this relationship all the other values come with that.

They will soon find that isn't true. Friends very clearly talk back. God is usually pretty silent -- unless you really use your imagination

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with mercy and grace. I'll add that my faith is the bedrock of my resilience in the face of some pretty traumatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse. I want my kids to have that same strong faith.

Did you ever wonder why God didn't stop the abuse -- or why he even let it start?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here - thank you all very much.

What's the verdict? Atheism FTW?

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How many times in a row has this troll posted, anyway?! #getalife

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Compassion

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That we are saved by the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

saved for what?

I was going to ask “saved from what?"

Saved from what a benevolent God won't/can't save them from if they don't believe.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with mercy and grace. I'll add that my faith is the bedrock of my resilience in the face of some pretty traumatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse. I want my kids to have that same strong faith.

Did you ever wonder why God didn't stop the abuse -- or why he even let it start?

He obviously blessed abuse in the Catholic Church.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with mercy and grace. I'll add that my faith is the bedrock of my resilience in the face of some pretty traumatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse. I want my kids to have that same strong faith.

Did you ever wonder why God didn't stop the abuse -- or why he even let it start?

He obviously blessed abuse in the Catholic Church.

It's a gorgeous day outside. You need to step away from being hateful on your computer, open your door, and go out there and enjoy life.

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow I got volunteered to occasionally lead 4th grade church school (Episcopal) this year.

If you do send your children to religious school, what do you want them to come away with?

We do have a curriculum, but I'm trying to identify major themes to help organize my thinking about this year.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

This:


The Prayer for Divine Love

THE PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, we recognize that Thou art all Holy and loving and merciful, and that we are Thy children, and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe. That we are the greatest of Thy creation, and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and the objects of Thy great soul's love and tenderest care.

That Thy will is, that we become at one with Thee, and partake of Thy great love which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children, through love, and not through the sacrifice and death of any one of Thy creatures.

We pray that Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy love, and that then may come Thy Holy Spirit to bring into our souls this, Thy love in great abundance, until our souls shall be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith--such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and one with Thee in very substance and not in image only.

Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father, and the bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy love changing us from the mortal to the immortal.

Let us never cease to realize that Thy love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee, in faith and earnest aspiration, Thy love will never be with-holden from us.

Keep us in the shadow of Thy love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh, and the influence of the powers of the evil ones, which so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world.

We thank Thee for Thy love and the privilege of receiving it, and we believe that Thou art our Father--the loving Father who smiles upon us in our weakness, and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of love.

We pray thus with all the earnestness and longings of our souls, and trusting in Thy love, give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give.