Every parent needs this one! David Kinnaman on resilient faith, navigating digital Babylon, and how to parent in a way that builds faith in your kids.

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Alli Worthington

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4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This may be the most important podcast I've ever aired. In this episode, David Kinnaman president of Barna Group and best selling author shares the results of thousands of hours or research and sheds light on why young people are leaving the church in a mass exodus. You’ll learn why kids are falling away from the faith and how you can parent in a way that builds faith in your kids. He'll also share what young people flourishing the faith have in common and how we can parent in a way that builds a lasting faith in our kids. David shares about interviewing young people and what helped them grow and stay in their faith. He shares the five practices of the younger generation with resilient faith: experiencing Jesus speaking to them, cultural discernment, meaningful relationship, vocational discipleship, and countercultural mission. In this episode we discuss: 1. Why faith should be an exciting (and even risky) leap for your kids. 2. Why over-simplified faith answers aren't cutting it anymore. 3. Why the American dream may be crushing their faith. Favorite quotes: 1. It is not a matter of if your kids are going to be exposed to it, it’s a matter of when. We have to be ready and prepared to live by what God says so that we can help our kids. We can’t protect them from everything. So it’s not saying “if this happens” but “when this happens? 2. Young people really want to learn and I think a lot of churches do a disservice by oversimplifying the message of the gospel. 3. We’re doing dial-up ministry in a wifi world. 4. To practice cultural discernment is to live under the authority of scripture. 5. We have a more American vision of what it means to be a young adult than we have a Christian vision of what it means to be a young adult. In this episode I answer this question: 1. How can I overcome my past pain? (51:19) Links to great things we discussed: 1. David Kinnaman 2. Faith For Exiles:5 Ways a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon 3. Hillsong: Awake 4. Twenty One Pilots: My Blood 5. Little Women 6. The Tech-Wise Family 7. Dolittle 8. UPPERROOM: All Hail King Jesus Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli www.alliworthington.com/davidkinnaman

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories, and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect,
0:15.5	and I want to learn something from.
0:17.3	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.3	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business. Welcome to the show today.
0:28.2	I'm with the brilliant David Keniman to bring you maybe the most important episode I've ever
0:33.5	shared with you. This is a big deal deal this is an important episode David is the
0:38.9	president of the Barna Group which has done some of the most important research in
0:42.8	our lifetimes but today what he is sharing is he has learned through research for
0:50.4	the past 20 years today you're going to learn why kids tend to fall away from the faith
0:56.6	and how you as a parent can parent in a way that actually builds faith in your kids. He's sharing
1:02.2	what creates faith resilience in 18 to 29 year old believers. So they studied almost a million
1:08.5	people who love the church who have stayed in the fold,
1:12.3	who loved Jesus, and found out how in a culture where younger people are rejecting God more and
1:17.4	more, how did they stay close to Jesus?
1:20.9	How did they not fall away from the faith?
1:23.0	How is their faith so resilient?
1:25.3	If you're a parent, or you have nieces and nephews or you work with the
1:28.7	younger generation, if you're in leadership, this is a must listen episode that you're going to
1:34.1	want to send to other people. Now I do want to warn you that there are some themes in this episode
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