Who Should Teach Your Kids?

Who should be in charge of Christian education for your kids?

If you are a Lutheran, you might find this surprising:

“The head of every family has the duty of training and teaching his children and servants, or of having them taught. In his house he is like a minister or bishop over his household, and he has the command to supervise what they learn and to be responsible for them.”

Regarding

Sunday

Schools

and confirmation classes taught to your kids by people other than the parents, Luther also says:

“But you have no right to do this outside your own household and to force yourself upon other households or upon your neighbors.”

- Martin Luther, “The Sermon on the Mount,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 21 [

Saint Louis

: Concordia Publishing House, 1956], pp. 7-8)