BONUS: Praying influence for our kids
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If anyone can appreciate the impact influencers have in our world today, it’s our kids. They are inundated with social media influencers telling them what to buy, how to look, and what to do in given situations. But despite the somewhat negative perception we may associate with our culture’s “influencers,” as Christians we are called have influence in our own circles and our kids are too.
Today we’re praying that our kids will visibly and authentically live out their faith, and in doing so draw others to him. It’s no coincidence that they are part of the teams, friend groups, and clubs they are in—it’s by design. So we’re praying that as they go about their days they will have influence through their words, conduct, love, faith, and purity (1 Timothy 4:12).
Even though our kids will likely (hopefully) never have the influencer status of a Kardashian, we’re reminded that it’s the significance of the message not the size of the audience that matters. Let’s pray they are faithful influencers of the gospel message that our world so desperately needs.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey guys, it's Cynthia. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to Heart in the Mess. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm so glad that you are with us as we're praying through the school year for our kids. |
| 0:20.3 | And this week we are praying influence for them, The verse that we're going to kind of ground |
| 0:24.9 | ourselves in, it comes from Titus 2. It's verses 7 and 8. And everything set them an example by doing |
| 0:30.5 | what is good. And your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech. |
| 0:35.9 | And so as we think about influence and praying that over our kids, |
| 0:39.4 | this is one thing they can definitely appreciate as an influencer, right? That is such a term |
| 0:44.8 | of their generation, of today's generation of kids. And so I looked up kind of a definition. |
| 0:49.6 | An influencer is a person who has the ability to affect the behavior of other people as a result of the |
| 0:56.6 | size of their audience or their individual persuasiveness. And I was thinking out social media |
| 1:02.9 | influencers and I decided to look it up and see who are the top social media influencers in |
| 1:07.5 | 2021. And I need y'all to know, I officially am old. Like, didn't think I was old |
| 1:13.2 | until this morning, but I'm old because, like, I don't know who these people are. Are you ready? |
| 1:17.0 | And for those of you who may be up to speed on these things, I'm not, you're about to die laughing. |
| 1:21.3 | I don't even know how to say the first one. It's a PewDie Pie, perhaps, with 108 million |
| 1:27.3 | followers. And then following that as perhaps, with 108 million followers. |
| 1:28.9 | And then following that is Kids Diana Show. |
| 1:32.5 | The next one is like Nostia. |
| 1:34.1 | The next one is Vlad and Nikki. |
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