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I’m attend faithfully but do I get enough?

 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,..."
Col. 3:16


If you take your child to Sunday morning worship only they get 52 hours a year of church interaction, 26 hours passive listening to the bible. If you go to class and worship they receive 52 hours of passive listening. If you go twice Sunday they get 78 hours of passive bible listening. If you go on Wednesday nights too they get 130 hours a year  of passive bible listening. Out of the 208 hours, never missed, year of attendance they only get 130 passive listening hours of which they forget 90% of what's taught in five days.
 
Compare that to the 1,280 passive listening hours they get in school, 960 hours a year doing h/w and extras, and finally 2,912 hours for weekends and breaks spent enjoying worldly things. 5,152 hours spent not focused on God in a year compared to 130 passive hours of listen to God's word. What's wrong with this picture?
 
Then in four years they get 20,680 hours of worldly teaching. While 520 hours are spent passively on Christ in the same time span. That means when a child becomes a teen, where they have the ability to reason,  they only get 520 hours of passive bible listening before they graduate.  What has more influence on them? Hmm, I can't figure out why teens leave the church after they graduate high school.
 
Parents make your kids get involved to mature in Christ. The world is flooding their minds with its teachings. They are making choices based on what has the most influence on them. Don't let them make spiritual choices on their own, they are not being flooded with spiritual knowledge.  They do not have the spiritual maturity to make a decision  that will effect their eternal destination. If you don't do something you'll lose them. At the very least teach them God's word about a subject or situation before they have to make a choice.
 
Parents these figures are true for all of us. It would take you 80+ years at this rate to get the 10,000 hands on hours needed to be called a "professional" in biblical learning or subjects. Where are you at? Is just showing up enough? We need to have the word of God dwelling in us with all wisdom (Col. 3:16). Did it take the New Testament Church 80 + years to get 10,000 hands on hours of bible learning ? (Acts 17:11 ) Do you want to wait 80+ years for that to happen? Are you going to wait tell your kids are grown to change how much bible they get?

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