The heart of Christianity is that we are sinners saved by grace and so, you know, what better way is there to infuse our home with what it means to be a follower of Jesus than to have us as adults as parents be quick to apologize for how we react for our tone of voice for our assumptions, whatever it might be.

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app.

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So we've raised three teenagers and you, Dave, especially.

I'm not saying we did it well, but we got through three boys who are now men who are actually, you know, we're grandparents now.

Yeah. And you've ministered. We've ministered to probably hundreds of teens and others. But what would you say is the number one?

No, no, no. I'm asking you this question. What's the number one question? Number one question, teens are asking. What do you think?

Number one question. I know where this is going. My first thought was relational. Like, who am I going to marry? What's my relational life going to look like? But I know it's deeper than that.

Because you're so much deeper than me. No, I think I would have even asked. Am I loved? What does that mean? You know, there's so many different things.

But what we're talking about today is the number one question is.

Well, I think it's really important what we're talking about today, because we're parents. Yes.

And we're a family ministry that tries to help marriages and families and impact legacies for the kingdom of God.

And so as parents, we need to know what are our kids asking? So we have, I don't know if we could get two better people in the studio today to answer this question.

I wrote a book about it called the three big questions that change every teenager. So obviously these two have studied this. So we have Brad Griffin and Kara Powell with us today.

Brad and Kara, welcome to family life today. Thanks for having us. It's wonderful to be here.

We really are talking not only to two experts, because you guys have written about this. You're at the full youth institute out in California.

This is your life work. But more importantly, I think is your parents of teenagers, right?

Yeah, my kids are 21, 19 and 15. So I have two college students and a 10th grader.

Brad, what about you, how old are you kids? 19, 16, 13. So you really are in it.

We say this is our golden year of parenting. All teenagers at once.

We feel like the teenage years for us, our kids are grown married and have kids now. We're our favorite years.

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