Tradition: Handing Down the Light to the Next Generation

Authors

Kristen Einertson, Concordia Seminary, St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

faith, children, church, christian, parents, liturgical

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

When my husband and I found out that I was pregnant with our first child, we started discussing the ways we hoped to hand down the faith to our children one day. Initially, the things that our own parents had done when we were younger helped us to come up with a pretty familiar list of activities: getting them baptized soon after they arrived, going to church regularly, teaching them to pray before mealtimes and bedtime, reading Bible stories, and familiarizing them with the church’s hymns. If there was one nearby—and we wanted to get a little crazy—maybe we would even send them to a Lutheran school! Since we were both products of the public school system, that seemed pretty out there—but we figured if it would help our children remain Christian, it might be worth a shot.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

People in this Resource (separated by commas)

Arius, Athanasius, Eusebius,

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Einertson, Kristen (2022) "Tradition: Handing Down the Light to the Next Generation," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol4/iss1/2