[271 words] It’s hard to convince your children that the church is the most important thing in the world when you are negligent about attending its services and supporting its work. It’s hard to convince your children that the church is the greatest institution in the world when you permit them to miss services to go elsewhere It’s hard to convince your children that the church is to be held higher than anything when you insist that they do their homework for public school but permit them to neglect their Bible study. It’s hard to convince your children that the church is the most important institution when you give little to help finance its work and encourage them to do likewise. It’s hard to convince your children that they should respect the church when you continually criticize the leadership, belittle the teacher’s work and appear a habitual faultfinder. It’s hard…