30/06/2020
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CHILDREN?
Children are a priority for the King and His kingdom: They are many, they are strategic, they suffer and God’s definite mandate in their favour shouts for urgent action right across the pages of Scriptures.
They are both key to the Great Commission and an essential expression of the Great Commandment.
The Church’s response to children today stands in many ways at a crossroads.
1. Most children at the turn of the century are‚ children at risk, or children that need more than mere words to demonstrate the love of God.
2. They are hungry children, homeless children, hurting children. Faced with the urgent need to nurture and protect these children, lots of Christians respond compassionately, even sacrificially, but most of them struggle to engage effectively and consistently.
3. The increasing need for professional standards in childcare pose a defining challenge for the Church.
An overriding reason for the Church to focus on children is that, more than any other segment of humanity, children suffer. In a sense, they pay for the sins of adults.
Every year tens of millions of children are victims of exploitation, violence, and abuse. Today more than 37 percent of children around the world live in absolute poverty—a total of 674 million children.
Many, many more live in conditions of severe deprivation, facing lack of income; hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments; social discrimination and exclusion.
☆SHALOM☆
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