How can parents teach their children to glorify God?

Brian Borgman discusses in this video how parents can teach their children to glorify God. He emphasizes the importance of instruction, including teaching children that they were made in God's image and that their chief purpose is to glorify God. He also emphasizes practical application, such as behaving in a way that glorifies God.

However, he notes that true glorification of God is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ and becoming a new creation in Him. Borgman stresses the importance of modeling these teachings and being consistent in living for the glory of God as a parent. Your children are always watching you -- what are they seeing from your actions?

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."

How as a parent do I teach my kids to glorify God? Well, I mean, in one sense, a lot of this comes down to the way that we instruct our kids, right? So we teach our kids, you've been made in the image of God. We teach our kids, you know, what is the chief end of man? The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

And so we weave that into the way that we parent. We weave in that you have dignity as an image bearer. You were created for something bigger than just to satisfy your own heart's desires or you were created to glorify God. And of course we weave that in, I think that we try to be as practical as possible. You know, we talk about glorifying God in terms of our behavior, our conduct and so forth.

But there also comes a point where we have to make it clear to our children that the only way that they can really glorify God is when they, in a sense, surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ, put their faith in Him, and become a new creation in Christ. Because an unconverted or an unregenerate child or adult doesn't have really the capacity to glorify God as they ought. And so we model it for them, we teach them, and we urge them that the real starting point for glorifying God is by following the Lord Jesus Christ and being conformed to His image in this life, which means that you live for something much bigger than yourself. You live for the King of the universe, and everything that you do is brought into subjection to Him, to honor and to glorify Him. And of course parents have to be consistent and be a good model for these things because they can hear that from their parents.

And if they don't see their parents themselves trying to live for the glory of God and to glorify God in all that they do, then of course they will see a fundamental hypocrisy that will undermine any genuine desire to live life for the glory of God.