A REASON FOR CHILDREN
Why do we have children? William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas in their book “Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony,” (1990, Abingdon Press) give what I think is an excellent answer to this question. They write: “Christians have children -in great part, in order to be able to tell our children the story… It is our baptismal responsibility to tell this story to our young, to live it before them, to take time to be parents in a world that is God’s creation (a fact we wouldn’t know without this story)… It is our privilege to invite our children, and other’s children, to be a part of this great adventure called the Church.” (pg. 60)
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