Stop Trying to Make them Successful, Raise Up World Changers

We live in a culture where it seems everyone wants to be a star. Too often we adopt the notion that somehow we are failing as parents if our children are not held in high honor and accolade at their private school—participating in the coolest extracurricular activities, sporting the latest fashion, making the highest grades, scoring the most points, and well-on-their-way to becoming, you got it, a star.
We strive tirelessly to set our children up for success, but we must take a moment and see the bigger picture. Are we preparing our children for Harvard or for Heaven? Do we want them to experience worldly success or a personal relationship with Christ? There is nothing wrong with success. But the next generation of world-changers will rise up from the power of Christ alive in the hearts of young men and women. That’s something this world cannot give—there is no app for that.