Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Champ Thornton,

entitled Three Misconceptions Parents Might Have About Their Children's Salvation.

Champ is the author of 10 Questions About Salvation, 30 Devotions for Kids, Teens, and families from Crossway.

Three misconceptions parents might have about their children's salvation, written and read by Champ Thornton.

Clearing up three misunderstandings.

As a parent of three children, now all in their teen years and beyond,

I remember being afraid about their future spiritual lives.

When will they trust and follow the Lord?

Will they drift from their faith?

How can I help point them toward the Savior,

but not in a pushy way so that they're just following my instructions.

I can still feel the anxiety as I thought about their souls. Over the years, in his kindness,

the Lord has helped me. He's used truths about salvation to calm my parentally, anxious heart,

and stabilize my thinking. Here are three misconceptions about salvation

that parents may need the Lord to correct. Misconception number one, I need my child to pray the

prayer for salvation. It's true, the Bible tells us that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

This includes the Apostle Paul and the sinful tax collector in the temple, who prayed to the

Lord and went home justified. The Bible communicates that it's essential to not only believe in

the heart, but also to confess with the mouth. And what is prayed, the content is also remarkably similar throughout

scripture. I turn from my sin, and I trust in the Savior, repentance, and faith. Yet these two

elements of conversion, repentance, and faith, don't just appear at the beginning of the Christian

race. They mark every mile along the way. True followers of Jesus are always turning from their

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