Developing Family Faith Traditions
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How do you make Christ the center of your home in your day-to-day routines? John and Danny offer simple steps to encourage your child's faith. Featuring Glen and Ellen Schuknecht. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or, call 1-800-A-FAMILY.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | Well maybe you've seen that wall art in the home decor section of the store printed with that saying Christ is the center of our home, or maybe you've got that displayed in your living room. |
| 0:22.0 | What does it really mean? I'm John Fuller along with |
| 0:25.4 | Danny Werta who leads our parenting and youth team here at Focus on the |
| 0:29.0 | family and Danny what does it look like to make Christ the center of a home just like in a day-to-day way? |
| 0:36.0 | It's just the natural flow of the day-to-day is how we do it. |
| 0:40.0 | Showing that you have a relationship with God talking about where you see God working, |
| 0:45.0 | praying with one another, reading scriptures, a family, |
| 0:50.0 | on the way to church on Sundays, sometimes we talk about where did you see God this last week where did you see him working in your life okay where are those evidences of God and so you can do that with nature you can do it while driving and it talks |
| 1:04.2 | about in Deuteronomy 6 it says to love the Lord our God with all our heart our |
| 1:09.4 | soul and our might and then Jesus says our mind as well and so it's about how we manage ourselves and model that in our homes and then it says to teach in our everyday lives what it means to be in relationship with God. |
| 1:23.8 | And I just want to make sure people understand. |
| 1:25.8 | This does not mean that you're a perfect Christian person. |
| 1:29.5 | It just means you're following Jesus and living it out day by day moment by moment. |
| 1:35.0 | And noticing, being a notice, sir, that this is, we live in a kingdom of God where we're broken people |
| 1:41.6 | needing God all day long and having that relationship and |
| 1:46.1 | conversation. It's not about being perfect, it's about being relational with |
| 1:49.8 | the Heavenly Father all day long. Got it. Well, Focus President, Jim Daly and I talked about this with Glenn and Ellen Shuknecht, and they described |
| 1:58.0 | some traditions that you can use to help teach your children and your grandchildren as well about God. |
| 2:05.0 | Glenn, you come from a really good, from what I read, a really good stable home, grew up in a Christian home. |
| 2:12.0 | Ellen, that's not your story, but I want to talk to you first, Glenn. |
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