Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, you'll get to listen to a session from Paul's 2019 parenting conference, Foundations of a Godly Home.

If you want more content like this from Paul

on parenting, you'll want to stream parenting. It's not what you think, his 2020 parenting conference.

Check the episode notes for a link to stream the event. Here's Paul giving you foundational principles

for raising children in a godly home.

Well, here's our first step in understanding this model of being God's representative in the life of your children of God's mercy. God makes his invisible, transforming, rescuing mercy visible by sending

parents of mercy to give mercy to children that need mercy. Let me say that again. God makes his

invisible, rescuing and transforming mercy visible by sending parents of mercy to give mercy to children

who need mercy. If you're going to do this, here's the first thing you need to understand.

And we're going to unpack this. You're never just dealing with behavior. You're never just dealing with behavior.

You're never just dealing with behavior. Now think again, if behavior was the core human problem, all we would need is some system for redirecting our behavior.

You're never just dealing with behavior.

Now what that means is, parents hear this, behavioral management

and control is never enough. Do your children need their behavior managed? Yes. Do they need

their behavior controlled? Yes. Do your children need regulations and the enforcement of those regulations by

loving parental authority? Yes, they do. But you're never just dealing with that. I said this before

to you, but I want to illustrate it this way, that if all you do is manage and control

by the exercise of your authority, the behavior of your children, when they leave your home,

they have nothing. There's a sad thing that happens. It happens every September.

It should be heartbreaking to us.

That every year, thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities

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