"Child Discipline, Training, and Education"

Child Discipline, Training, and Education (Part 2)

III. Training and educating children. 1. The goal of educating children is to bring them to maturity. A. Maturity - The state or quality of being mature (having the powers of the body and mind fully developed); fullness or perfection of development or growth. B. Jesus Christ is the standard of maturity (Eph 4:13). i. Jesus was trained up by his parents who provided Him with a well-rounded and quality education (Luk 2:51-52). a. He matured: 1) intellectually (in wisdom). 2) physically (in stature). ...