Cultivating the Image of God in Children

Deuteronomy 6:4-9; 20-25; Col 3:11-12, ESV 

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your  God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And these  words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them  diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and  when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall  bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your  eyes.9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

20 “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies  and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ 21 then  you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought  us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22And the Lord showed signs and wonders,  great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before  our eyes. 23And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us  the land that he swore to give to our fathers. 24And the Lord commanded us to do all  these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve  us alive, as we are this day. 25And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to  do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’

Colossians 2:11-12 

11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands,  by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been  buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith  in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.