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Infancy to Childhood: Training Objectives  \n15: Infancy to Childhood: Training Procedures   \n16: Childhood: Training Objectives  \n17: Childhood: Training Procedures  \n18: Teenagers: Training Objectives  \n19:Teenagers:Training Procedures  \nShepherding Helps  \nScripture Index  \nMission  \nInfo  \nDownloaded from [https://www.studycrux.com](https://www.studycrux.com)  \nDownloaded from [https://www.studycrux.com](https://www.studycrux.com)  \nPreface to the Second Edition  \nIn the ten years since Shepherding a Child’s Heart was published I have taught the material in this book hundreds of times . I have conversed with scores of young people who are in the throes of childrearing. These opportunities have left me more and more convinced of some biblical underpinnings that are essential for making sense of the childrearing task.  \nGod is concerned with the heart—the well-spring of life (Proverbs 4 : 23) . Parents tend to focus on the externals of behavior rather than the internal overflow of the heart. We tend to worry more about the“what” of behavior than the “why”. Accordingly, most of us spend an enormous amount of energy in controlling and constraining behavior. To the degree and extent to which our focus is on behavior, we miss the heart.  \nWhen we miss the heart, we miss the subtle idols of the heart. Romans 1 makes it clear that all human beings are worshipers; either we worship and serve God, or we make an exchange and worship and serve substitutes for God—created things rather than the Creator (Romans 1 : 18-25) . When parenting short-circuits to behavior we miss the opportunity to help our kids understand that straying behavior displays a straying heart. Our kids are always serving something, either God or a substitute for God—an idol of the heart.  \nWhen we miss the heart, we miss the gospel. If the goal of parenting is no more profound than securing appropriate behavior, we will never help our children understand the internal things, the heart issues, that push and pull behavior. Those internal issues: self-love, rebellion, anger, bitterness, envy, and pride of the heart show our children how profoundly they need grace . If the problem with children is deeper than inappropriate behavior, if the problem is the  \nDownloaded from [https://www.studycrux.com](https://www.studycrux.com)  \noverflow of the heart, then the need for grace is established. Jesus came to earth, lived a perfect life and died as an infinite sacrifice so that children (and their parents) can be forgiven, transformed, liberated and empowered to love God and love others .  \nWhen we miss the heart, we miss the glory of God. The need of children (or adults) who have fallen into various forms of personal idolatry is not only to tear down the high places of the alien gods, but to enthrone God. Children are spring-loaded for worship. 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