A study of biblical discipline and it's goal of restoring the relationships between child, parent, and God.

1. Embracing Biblical Methods: The Rod What are the first words that come to your mind when you hear 'the rod'? What are the first words that come to your mind when you hear 'discipline'?

2. Negative Image: Rod = Oppression Isa 9:4 “ For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod ( shebet ) of their oppressor.” Psa 125:3 “ The scepter ( shebet ) of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil. ”

5. Pronounced sh ě v ě t'

6. Like Chevette... but different

10. Family authority

11. Implement of authority

13. Family authority

14. Implement of authority

16. Psa 45:6 “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.”

17. The peace and comfort of God comes with the shebet

19. Prov 23:13―14 “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod , he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.”

21. Goal is to “save his soul from death”

23. Heb 12:11―12, “ No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.”

26. Prov 29:15 “ The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother. ”

27. Wielding the Rod We cannot be indifferent to methodology. Biblically, the method is as important as the objectives. God speaks to both issues. He is concerned not only with what we do, but also with how we do it. Shepherding a Child's Heart, p. 80

29. Strive to relate scripture

30. Strive to show the eventual results of the action

31. Consider your child's character

32. Consider your child's heart

33. Restore YOUR relationship!

34. Everyone must know the ground rules

36. Rude to peers: “Let us make him in our image, them in our likeness”

37. Demanding, “Love is patient, love is kind, ...”

38. Goal: become an agent of God's work in your child

40. How will your friends react if you speak that way to them?

41. What do we say about God when we demand what we want?

43. Could your child “connect the dots”?

44. Do he do this regularly?

45. Is she characterized by it?

46. What motivation of the heart led to the action?

47. The energy behind our discipline must be love for God and love for our children. Our motive in discipline should be restoration not retribution. Shepherding a Child's Heart Teacher Handbook , p. 97

49. Spanking

50. Vinegar

51. Reflective timeout... and discussion after

52. Reimbursement

54. If, like Assyria, we are to be the agents of the Lord's discipline to His children, we must go about it His way.