Pastor Warren Wiersbe writes,

“Each new generation must learn what God has done for His people so that they will obey His Word and trust Him for the future.  When you have a living faith in a living God, the past is not ‘dead history.’ It throbs with living reality.”

This is the heart of the Genesis Family Ministry Program: strengthening church leaders, in order that they might encourage and equip parents as the primary disciplers of their children, remembering that the family is God’s ordained institution for passing faith from one generation to the next.

We find inspiration and instruction in passages such as the one below from Psalm 78:1-8:

Listen, O my people, to my instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.
For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,
That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,
That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,
And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.