Most parents tend to have a tendency to default towards grace or truth.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast.

I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

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as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we love to tease out particular

Bible verses and their implications on the family. And I have been

absolutely obsessed recently with a single verse in John 1 when it comes to family, when it comes to

parenting. I think it's probably my favorite, at least at the moment, my favorite summary of what

parenting is all about. And it's John 117, and it simply says this,

for the law was given through Moses,

grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And I think that that verse, that single verse,

sums up both the tensions that are involved in parenting

and the journey of parenting, all in one verse.

So what is the journey of parenting? Let me start there. The journey of parenting is from the law to the gospel.

And that's exactly what the apostle John is describing here, that all of human history can be

summed up as a journey in some sense from the law to the gospel. Now, we have, there's a larger

story that brackets that one. But that's really the story that so many of us are in as we're trying to grow and trying to

see and understand and receive the gospel. We begin by understanding we're fallen,

you know, God created a great world, but the law came to try to, like, create some boundaries,

to try to bring some order into the chaos that sin was creating. And so this is

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