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Do Not Be Discouraged

If you have been following as I have blogged through this booklet; Bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children: In Dependency on the Spirit by Joel R. Beeke and are feeling as if you have failed.  Do not be discouraged, it is not too late to start.  You can always repent and begin a new.  Evangelism is a lifelong endeavor.  Whether it is your own children, your grandchildren, or those in the neighborhood or at church, you can share the gospel of Christ and what it means to live as a child of God.

If you have gleaned from the last week or so of blogging through Beeke’s booklet, I would encourage you to spend the $2 and order your own copy.  There is so much more!  Just follow the link above.

I will close this the same way Beeke closes his booklet.  It is with a great prayer from a seventeenth-century Puritan.

O God, I cannot endure to see the destruction of my kindred.  Let those that are united to me in tender ties be precious in thy sight and devoted to thy glory.  Sanctify and prosper my domestic devotion, instruction, discipline, example, that my house may be a nursery for heaven, my church the garden of the Lord, enriched with the trees of righteousness of thy planting, for thy glory.  Let not those of my family who are amiable, moral, attractive, fall short of heaven at last.  Grant that the promising appearances of tender conscience, soft heart, the alarms and delights of thy Word, be not finally blotted out, but bring forth judgment unto victory in all whom I love.