Make the Next Generation Great!!!
Pastor John Collins ~"Our children are our future, let's raise them right"
From Pastor John Collins: "We've messed this world up one person at a time, one church at a time. We can fix it one person at a time, one church at a time, and we need to start with the generation that is coming in right now. The children. They are the ones who are going to become the next doctors, presidents, inventors, scientists, parents and that's where we need to start, let's make the next generation great!"
We need to stand up and be a voice for the voiceless.... Pastor John Collins 10/2023
From Itube 24/7: Pastor John Collins ~ Make the Next Generation Great October 23, 2023, click to view
"Stand up, speak up, be the voice of the voiceless to help the children in this world to become children of God to let this next generation not have to worry about school shootings, and mall shootings, and driveby shootings..."
Pastor John Collins, Evangelist
"Our children are our future, let's raise them right"
Pastor John Collins, Evangelist
From Pastor John Collins TikTok, October 2023
From Pastor John Collins Tik Tok,October 2023
"Parenting is the most important job that a person can have."
Pastor John Collins
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV).
Our way of life has got to change. What happens when kids have kids? What happens when the “parents” put their social lives and partying ahead of their own children? What happens when a parent’s love life takes precedence over spending time with their kids? What happens when a child’s right of passage to maturity is their first beer, their first drag of a cigarette, their first joint, their first line and their first sexual encounter?
Too many parents are clinging to youth by partying and dressing to impress. Too many parents are living lives that are teaching the young that social interactions are at the top of the priority list. Too many parents are going out and cutting loose because they feel that they have lost so many of their “good years” to raising children. What example are we setting for the children we are meant to care for when we put ourselves first?
Raising children is a big responsibility and it is a challenge to remain selfless. It is not always fun to act like the adult. When you have kids at a young age and those children get to a rebellious stage it is not always easy to handle the problems that arise with maturity and confidence. There has got to be a point when parents make a conscious choice to parent.
Parenting is the most important job that a person can have. A parent is responsible for teaching their children how to be respectable people, how to behave appropriately, how to prioritize correctly, how to deal with confrontations and challenges that come with life and most importantly how to get to heaven. If you do not teach your child how to enter the kingdom of God, you have failed. If you do not live a life that exemplifies those lessons, you have failed. If we don’t make it home, we have failed.
We have got to grow up and get right with God. Parents need to parent. We have to be able to see that selfish pleasures and needs in our own lives do not serve our children well. There is too much partying and romance that keeps parents from their children. People don’t want to hear that faith is the answer but that is the truth. The solution to every problem lies in the hands of Jesus. The change that comes from believing and trusting in God is truly miraculous. The hope that comes from the Cross is eternal.
Be willing to be selfless. Be willing to change your ways and become a beacon of hope for your families. Children are a joy and such a gift. Let us learn to parent with the love of God and Jesus in our hearts and the devotion and commitment that our children deserve.
“Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to Him and said, ‘Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.’” Luke 18:15-17 (NKJV).
Love that Cross!! Pastor John Collins