{"id":417,"date":"2010-07-02T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2010-07-02T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T02:23:20","slug":"how-do-you-teach-children-to-be-worshipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/how-do-you-teach-children-to-be-worshipers\/","title":{"rendered":"How do You Teach Children to be Worshipers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question I&#8217;ve been pondering for a while, especially as our daughter gets older and starts to understand things and ask more questions. \u00a0I also found <a title=\"Teaching Boys to Pray and Worship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themobsociety.com\/2010\/07\/teaching-boys-to-pray-and-worship\/\" target=\"_blank\">this fantastic post from The MOB Society<\/a> (Mother&#8217;s of Boys) that I just had to share. \u00a0It was so good to read and think about. \u00a0An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He listens, learns, and knows the words now. He can\u2019t read yet, learning by hearing is his way.\u00a0He gently raises his hands, the air accepts them, and he closes his eyes.\u00a0He is mouthing the words now, no sound.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0<em>Halleluia! <\/em>Sweet tiny sound breezes through my ears.\u00a0 A wee voice with a big heart.\u00a0 I open my own eyes to look.\u00a0He is worshiping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what do you do? \u00a0What have you done? \u00a0What has worked? \u00a0And I&#8217;m not talking about just teaching your kids to sing and do actions with Sunday School songs. \u00a0While that&#8217;s great and is a good starting point, I&#8217;m wondering how you teach children to be <strong>worshipers.<\/strong> I want to know how you&#8217;ve developed lasting results. \u00a0Will you leave me a comment and let me know?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/how-do-you-teach-children-to-be-worshipers\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question I&#8217;ve been pondering for a while, especially as our daughter gets older and starts to understand things and ask more questions. \u00a0I also found this fantastic post from The MOB Society (Mother&#8217;s of Boys) that I just had to share. \u00a0It was so good to read and think about. \u00a0An excerpt: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}