{"id":2275,"date":"2016-08-01T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wccnc.org\/?post_type=message&#038;p=2275"},"modified":"2017-01-01T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T02:56:38","slug":"release-your-child-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/release-your-child-to-the-lord","title":{"rendered":"Release Your Child to the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents have questions&#8230; Practical questions like: How and when should I discipline my child? How do I get them potty trained? And spiritual questions like: When is my child old enough to confess faith in Christ? What about baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper? How can I be sure that they are saved? In answering these questions, we have God\u2019s Word as our guide, but we must also take into account the child\u2019s level of maturity. Have you noticed that every child is unique? No two are the same. And as they grow, they change. So the parenting style that seemed effective when they were small, doesn\u2019t work when they\u2019re older. These differences need different parenting styles.<\/p>\n<p>In his first letter to the Thessalonians, the apostle Paul told them that he had been willing to parent according to their situation, sometimes gentle and affectionate like a mother and sometimes strong like a father in order to release them to live up to God\u2019s calling. We can parent our children following God\u2019s Word to match our child\u2019s situation with a goal of releasing them to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2259,"template":"","tags":[2030],"series":[1999],"scripture-book":[1319],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-2275","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-parenting","series-parenting-101","scripture-book-1-thessalonians","scripture-chapter-1335","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}