Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

boldly in a chaotic culture. Lisa and I both have kids in the teen years and it is a very interesting time for parents.

You start to see how some of the things you did well as a parent in the younger years are bearing fruit

and you feel a sense of gratitude and to some degree some relief, but you also start to see how the things that you maybe didn't do quite as well are bearing

some of their own less than desirable fruit. So parenting is with teens is certainly a time for

reflection. Well, today, Elisa and I thought we would each share what we feel are three of our biggest parenting failures,

specifically as it relates to discipleship, as well as three of our biggest successes.

Now, we want to be really clear in saying this that we're not claiming that there is some kind of one-to-one relationship

between what you put into your kids discipleship and what you do or don't get out because that's absolutely not true. You can invest in

your kids spiritual lives in some amazing ways and not see the immediate or

even longer term fruit of that and you could fail to invest in some significant ways and your kids

may still bear incredible fruit in areas that totally surprise you. And that's

because what you do is just one factor in parenting. Your kids are unique

people and of course God is doing his own work. So when

we share this episode of successes and failures, these are just some things that we've

seen more direct relationships between what we've personally done or failed to do and maybe some of the things

that we're noticing in our kids lives. So we hope that both the bad and the good

may be helpful to you and we'd encourage you to do your own parenting inventory too.

Ask yourself what would I say are the

three best things our family is doing to disciple our kids and what are three things

that maybe we really need to do more of. So before we confess our failures and celebrate some

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