What should be one of our goals as parents?

Calvin Beisner explains in this video that one of the things that we should aim for when we raise our children is that they would each be able to say that they couldn't remember a time when they didn't know of Christ and of His love.

Our children have to face this decision of whether they are a disciple of Christ or not. Parents should be encouraging them to always be thinking of what God would have them do and be keeping them in prayer.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) - "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

One of the things that we aimed for in the raising of our children is that they would all be able to testify as they became adults or even late childhood, adolescent years, late teens, that they'd all be able to say, I cannot remember a time when I didn't know Christ, when I didn't trust Him and love Him and know that He loved me. That's certainly our great goal. That's certainly our great goal. And that is not, I think, an either-or with their realizing that at some particular time, and maybe at multiple particular times, they have to face this decision. Am I Christ's disciple or am I going to determine that I'm in charge of my life?

They're going to have to go through that again and again. Adults have to go through that again and again. And so we should be encouraging them to always think in terms of, what would the Lord have me do here? The will of God is for our sanctification, and that sanctification is pictured for us in the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, in the two great commandments, and it's pictured for us in the life of Christ and the Proverbs and all those things. Our attitude for our children should be encouraging them to want to become more like Jesus, not in order somehow to be able to say, aha, I did this on my own.

But because they see that he is so precious, so beautiful, and they so appreciate his love for them, that they wanna reflect him. You