In any relay race, the speed and conditioning of the runners are essential, but the handing off of the baton is everything.

Every athlete pours their heart and soul into their leg of the race, but the successful transfer of that baton ultimately determines the results.

Coming up on Living on the Edge, we'll learn how this principle applies to passing

on our faith to the next generation and how Bible-believing parents can do it well. I'm Dave Drew.

And in just a minute, we'll finish up our series dealing with doubts by sharing the remainder

of Chip's insightful discussion with author and apologist Sean McDowler. Today, they'll highlight the steps

and valuable resources Christian moms and dads can follow to hand that baton of faith off to their

kids and to generations to come. Well, there's a lot to get to, so here again is Chip.

My background was a lot in psychology, graduate school and undergraduate.

And when you do the research, you know, part of the completely secular research about what kind of environments people thrive in and, you know, what helps them, you constantly come back to what the scripture teaches about what a man needs to be and cherishing

and caring and protecting and loving and what a woman needs to be and what they need to do

and the mutual submission to one another and creating this environment where kids can flourish

and feel loved and valued and part of the challenge is there's not a lot of those

kind of models and that family has broken down in such a way that a lot of people are looking to

social media or the culture to try and figure out what's up, what's down. What's your counsel to

that couple who says, we really want to raise our kids in a way that

honors God? We know they're being bombarded by social media. We don't want to be too strict because

if we say no, no, no to everything. And on the other hand, there are real dangers. Sean,

you're an apologist. You're a dad, you work with students.

Please give me some wise counsel about raising my kids in a way that will help them flourish.

Going back to at least 1972, and this comes from Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame,

in his book, Handing Down the Faith.

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