Wow!

I just finished reading the George Barna book Called Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions.

I was completely moved by Barna's next to last paragraph. It really drives home the point of how important a job we have been given in raising up young children. I was surprised that Barna even blames the "church" as being a usurper. What a wake-up call to parents to take back their right to raise their children as God designed!

"If you have not yet reached the point of embarrassment over the fact that most adults-perhaps even you-abdicate your children's moral and spiritual development to illegitimate usurpers of that responsibility (eg., schools, the media, legislatures, judges, and even churches), then I pray that the Holy Spirit will heighten your sensitivity to this travesty with all due haste. We have no right to complain about how our children develop if we are not heavily and purposefully investing in those outcomes. Those who fill the gap in our absense are mere substitutes for us when we don't pull our weight. If we default on our responsibility, we cannot blame those substitutes for making the most of the opportunity. This is, after all, part of the battle for the minds and hearts of humanity."