216: Helping Your Children Engage with Their Faith; Talking about the LGBT Movement w/ Dr. Sean McDowell

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Sean McDowell is a gifted communicator with a passion for equipping the church, and in particular, young people to make the case for the Christian faith. Sean still teaches one high school Bible class, which helps give him exceptional insight into the prevailing culture so he can impart his observations poignantly to fellow educators, pastors, and parents alike. In 2008, he received the Educator of the Year award for San Juan Capistrano, California. The Association of Christian Schools International awarded Exemplary Status to his apologetics training. Sean is listed among the top 100 apologists. He earned a Ph.D. in Apologetics and Worldview Studies from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2014.

In April 2000, Sean married his high school sweetheart, Stephanie. They have three children and live in San Juan Capistrano, California. Sean played college basketball at Biola University and was the captain his senior year on a team that went 30-7.

Listen today as Dr. Sean McDowell shares (among other topics) that if you want to pass on your faith to your kids, the effective way to do that and data shows, you have to:
1. Model your faith to your kids. If you don’t model it, it doesn’t matter what you say.
2. Build close, warm, intimate relationship with your kids.
3. Engage them in spiritual, natural conversations, not lectures.
Always look for ways to ask questions and engage them. Affirm that asking questions are great and welcome in the Christian fold.

You can follow Dr. Sean McDowell through the resources below:
Website - https://seanmcdowell.org
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/seanmcdowell/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC321oNTD2yrszfYoz3-X1w
Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-biblically-conversations-on-faith-culture/id1300837524

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I'm really excited to share today's interview with you
0:05.7	that I just concluded with Dr. Sean McDowell. Before I go into his bio, I want to take a moment to
0:11.9	thank you all so much for leaving ratings and reviews on iTunes that's helped our podcast reach
0:18.4	more people. Also for subscribing on YouTube and liking and commenting that again helps with
0:23.7	engagement. Also the people that take the time, you people, those of you that take the time to
0:29.4	screenshot a favorite episode and share it on a social media platform. That is such a blessing
0:34.2	to KD and myself. We're really grateful that you take the time to not only encourage us but to
0:39.0	help get the podcast out to more people. So thank you for doing that. Now who is Dr. Sean McDowell?
0:44.5	I'm going to read some parts of his biography and then of course you're going to hear more
0:48.8	from the man himself here in just a moment. Dr. Sean McDowell is a gifted communicator with a
0:53.8	passion for equipping the church and in particular young people to make the case for the Christian
0:59.2	faith. Sean still teaches one high school Bible class which helps give him an exceptional insight
1:05.1	into the prevailing culture so he can impart his observations poignantly to fellow educators,
1:09.6	pastors and parents alike. In 2008, he received the Educator of the Year Award for San
1:15.4	Capastrano, California. The Association of Christian Schools International awarded exemplinary
1:21.6	exemplar at rary status to his apologetic straining. Sean is listed among the top 100 apologists.
1:28.1	He earned a PhD in apologetics and worldview studies from Southern Baptist Theological
1:33.0	Seminary in 2014. Boy, are you guys just loving hearing me read off this biography? It's probably
1:40.4	pretty fun to hear me struggle like this. I will continue. Sean is married to his sweetheart
1:47.6	Stephanie and they've been married for 23 years. They live in San Capastrano, California with their
1:52.4	three children. Sean also played college basketball at Biola University and was the
1:58.0	captain of the team has seen your year on which and on this team they went, this particular team,
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