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What does the culture tell us about good parenting? Finish this sentence: A good parent will do for his/her child.
50% of kids who grow up in a Christian home don t follow the Lord as adults. Source: Sticky Faith, p. 16, 2011
Why They Leave 1. Hypocrisy and hurt by spiritual leaders including parents. 2. Their faith is not working. 3. They never personally owned their faith. Source: Why Christian Kids Leave the Faith, Tom Bisset, You Lost Me, David Kinsman
Why They Leave 4. Other things became more important 5. They were given shallow answers to life s difficult questions.
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To Abraham For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just Genesis 18:19
To Israel These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Has not the LORD made [a husband and wife] one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because He was seeking godly offspring. Malachi 2:15
Paul to the NT Church Fathers, do not exasperate your children but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
Most teenagers and their parents may not realize it, but a lot of research in the sociology of religion suggests that the most important social influence in shaping young people s religious lives is the religious life modeled and taught to them by their parents. Dr. Christian Smith Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Parents are huge, absolutely huge, nearly a necessary condition for a child to remain strong in the their faith into young adulthood. Without questions, the most important pastor a child will ever have in their life is a parent. Dr. Christian Smith Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
You are God s most influential shepherd!
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1. Understand God s Process.
As for you, continue in what you have learned and become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise unto salvation in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:14-15
2. Make The Great Commission the North Star of your parenting.
I have no greater joy that to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 4
3a. Model Walking with God at Home
I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 2 Timothy 1:5
3b. Fill your home with love and the aroma of the gospel.
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Give them gospel discipline.
3c. Teach your children the the gospel and the word.
3d.. Teach them to serve in the ingdom.
Commit yourself to a healthy local church with healthy pastors.
3e. Pray like none of this will work.
Questions?
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Connect them with mentors.
Walk them through doubts.
Monitor their media.
Encourage them to pursue Christ.
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Application Questions 1. Do I encourage them to pursue Christ or am I happy with outward conformity?
Encourage friendships around the gospel.
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Application Questions 1. Have I proactively talked about friend choices?
Application Questions 1. Do I see my children as people who can serve God now? And not just be served? 2. Am I asking them to serve sacrificially now? 3. How are we serving together as a family?
Application Questions 1. Do I have the right attitude toward their technology and my technology? Am I on MY phone too much? 2. What steps have you taken to protect from the sewage? 3. Do I have other families in the church who share our vision?
Educate yourself about how to pass the gospel to your children.