When should you begin teaching your child about God. Let me tell you a story I heard from a TV evangelist. He said he knew that some weren’t listening to him…some weren’t paying attention…so he tried something to wake them up.

Before the service one night, he spread a green cloth near the pulpit, and later while preaching, he said that whoever would come and pick up the cloth could have what was under it. And as he continued to preach, a boy about six or seven years old, walked up and lifted the cloth. And picked up the bill that lay under it.

As he returned to his seat, the minister stopped and asked what he had found, and he said, “a dollah.” And the minister said, “No son, that’s a one-hundred dollar bill, and it’s yours.” And he asked the boy why he came up, and the youngster said, “I was listening, and I heard you.”

This evangelist went on to make a point, but I got an entirely different thought from it. It reminded me of parents who say their child is too young to understand about God and Christ, or right and wrong, and that they’re going to wait until he or she is old enough to decide for themselves, about the life they’ll live.

And woe to those parents. That boy in that minister’s service was listening. Oh, the children may whisper and giggle and miss a lot, but they hear enough to realize the importance of Sunday School and church, and the things they hear there. And the thing that might stick with them might be the thought that brings them to Christ and maybe even to the life of a missionary someday.

With Christ, you’re never too young or too old!