{"id":5694,"date":"2012-12-10T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2013-01-25T00:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T05:55:55","slug":"winning-him-without-words-what-about-the-kids-where-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/10\/winning-him-without-words-what-about-the-kids-where-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Him Without Words: What About the Kids? Where to start?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not turn from it. \u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Proverbs 22:6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As we wind down this study we come to last section of this wonderful book and that is \u201cWhat about our kids\u201d in this journey of our spiritually mismatched marriage.<\/p>\n

(what do we do? Where do we start?)<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

My kids were not the ones who went to church every week with two parents<\/b> leading them into the church building, or praying with them, or reading the Bible with them, nope it was just me.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I am not complaining mind you, but it would have been \u201cwonderful\u201d for both of us to do the leading.<\/p>\n

When I had children I was constantly thinking how in the world am I going to raise them in a godly home when the home was not a complete godly unit\u2026and then I remembered how my granddaddy used to teach me saying \u201cBeverly, there is nothing you can do about others, you must just work on yourself, love Jesus yourself, and as He teaches you then you teach them.”<\/p>\n

I listened to him and just like I did the 9 years of my marriage before having children I did the same after the children were born\u2026\u2026I went to church and took my children with me so they could learn about my Jesus, and learn about WHO will be and make the difference in their life as they grow up.<\/p>\n

Even though I took them to church I constantly thought:<\/p>\n