Contents
Opening Reflective Questions
Reflection Question: How is parenting going?
Reflection Question: How are your kids helping you get to heaven?
Responses from Parents in the Room
- Showing them our character
- Shows us a window into ourselves
- Helped me go to God when I was going through my lowest time
- Parenting is rewarding and helps me give glory to God
Continue to strive to meet the goal of sharing the word with them!
Book Suggestion
“Owning Faith: Reimagining the Role of Church and Family in the Faith Journey of Teenagers”
Family and the Word of God
All scriptures can apply to family.
Reflection Question: When reading the Bible, ask yourself:
“What does this say for me and my family, and how can I apply it at home?”
We need to intentionally build faith at home.
God’s Call to Parents
Reflection Question: Who does God call to help our kids become Christians?
Answer: The parents.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking someone else will do it. God has placed that responsibility on the parents.
We chose to have kids, it can’t be someone else’s responsibility.
The church should help too, but parents are the primary spiritual leaders.
Recognizing Your Child’s Gifts
Reflection Question: What do you see as some natural gifts your child has?
They are going to feel big emotions…but hang in there!
If you get your kids talking, it’s a good thing, that’s a positive sign!
There’s no parent who can control the tide of the teenage phase and hormones.
Tip: Find something that helps your kids open up and talk.
Passing Down Faith to Your Kids
Reflection Question: Do you think it’s important to pass down faith?
Reflection Question: What are you doing intentionally in your home to help teach faith to your kids?
Keep the flame and pass it to the next generation!
“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
The journey to God will be unique for each child.
Put God First at Home
Question: How would you say you’re doing with God being number one at home?
Book Suggestion
Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on 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. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Three Commitments to Implement Now
- You will seek God’s Kingdom first
- Be genuine and authentic
- Talk about faith with your kids
Being a Great Example of Dependence on God for your Family
Question: How do we model that we’re dependent on God?
When you blow it, it’s the best opportunity to show Jesus.
Faith over perfection.
Jesus does the heavy lifting, we just have to trust that He will do it!
