A Christian blogger and women’s ministry speaker has insisted that teaching young children that they’re sinners isn’t cruel, but part of biblical understanding.
“I vividly remember my 4-year-old trying to work out the effects of sin. There were a few weeks when every day he’d say, ‘Mom, can we talk about sin?’ Sin is disobedience, he’d tell me, like when you say you washed your hands after you went potty, but you really didn’t. He’d explain the consequence for sin is death, but Jesus took the consequence,” Hannah Baehr of Temple Baptist Church in Newport News, Virginia, wrote on Monday in The Gospel Coalition.
The mother writes that, at first, her son wasn’t willing to give up his autonomy in asking Jesus to be his “boss.”
“This conversation wasn’t born out of my son’s sense of self-worth; it was a direct result of grappling with his badness. He was faced with a serious problem. He knew about the reality of sin and believed in the consequence of his disobedience. He even knew the cure for sin was a relationship with Jesus,” she added.
“But he didn’t know how to accept this cure while still loving his sin. The weight of the dilemma pressed on him, so he worked through it, having this same conversation with me as many times as it occurred to him.”
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