Paul White explains in this video that one big mistake parents can make is failing to teach our children that they are born with sin. They are sinners. Parents must be diligent to continually set Christ before their children. Our children ought not to grow up in a home where they are idolized by their parents and can do not wrong in their eyes.

Romans 3:21-23 (NKJV) - "But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

One of the number one mistakes I see as a broad problem is that we practically deny the doctrine of original sin. What that means is as our children are born and we're very quick to say that they are depraved from the womb and they're sinners. But we don't let that play out in our lives and in our in our raising of them and so we don't realize that they're not just broadly sinners. They haven't just broadly inherited guilt. That they are specifically sinners, just like me.

And so they have the same tendencies that I have as a fallen son of Adam. I think the root of every sin is idolatry. And so our children from an early age are inclined to idolatry. This is why they cry when they don't get their way. It's not because they're baby sinners, it's because they're idolaters and they are not being treated like God and they want to be treated like God.

So forgetting that, a lot of parents unknowingly set idols before their children. They don't set Christ before their children. They set idols before their children. Whether that be hobbies or a particular way of life, you know, we're urban people or we're country people or we're farming people or we're intellectual people or we're homeschooling people. Whatever these things may be, we can set these things up, and our children never get the impression that our parents are obsessed with Christ.

The Christians in Antioch were called Christians by outsiders because they recognized these people are obsessed with this Messiah. And our children ought to be able to see the same thing.