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The Family Discipleship Podcast

Family Discipleship Modeling

The Family Discipleship Podcast

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0597 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the thirteenth episode of the Family Discipleship Podcast the hosts (Adam Griffin, Chelsea Griffin, and Cassie Bryant) talk about family discipleship modeling, what it looks like for parents to have a genuine walk with God themselves and repent where they fall short.Questions we addressed in this episode:
  • What are modeling, time, moments, and milestones?
  • Why is having a personal faith a critical component of leading a family?
  • Are we asking parents to be perfect or at least pretend they are for their kids sake?
  • If someone took a look at your calendar or read a transcript of everything you said in a week, what would they conclude are the most important things going on in your life?
  • Do you see any inconsistencies between what you tell your kids is right and what they see you doing or saying?
  • What do you think it looks life for a parent to be “diligent in caring for their own soul”?
  • What are the biggest challenges that parents face when it comes to personal spiritual disciplines?
  • To the parent who says, “I’m too busy” or “I’m too uneducated” or “I’m too… anything” what encouragement or challenge can you offer them?
  • Howard Hendricks used to say that one of the best ways to love your kids is to love your spouse well. For our listeners who are married, what could spiritual discipline or a walk with Christ together look like for them?
Some of our favorite quotes from this episode:
  • “If it’s a reality that my greatest joy is my union with Christ. If that’s where my truest identity is, that’s where my hope is, that’s where I gain freedom, and I desperately want my kids to have that same freedom, then I need to be able to model for them what that looks like. I want them to see something truly great, that there really is freedom in Christ. That there really is joy in the midst of grief. That we have hope in a broken world. That needs to be true for me before I could possibly try to tell my kids about it.” - Chelsea Griffin
  • “You are modeling something totally unattainable for your kids if you aren’t showing them your failures, mistakes, hardships, or challenges.” - Cassie Bryant
  • “Don’t hide your failures from your kids in an attempt to keep from tarnishing your reputation with your child, use them as an opportunity to show your kids how a man or a woman of God fails and repents.” - Adam Griffin
  • “Kids are watching and that’s why modeling is so important because they’re little sponges.” - Cassie Bryant
Resources mentioned in this episode:To keep up with the Family Discipleship Podcast, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter. To read more about family discipleship, check out the book Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home Through Time, Moments, and Milestones by Adam Griffin and Matt Chandler. The Family Discipleship Podcast is a podcast of Training the Church.  Let this Mother’s Day be a reminder that she deserves care, too. Head to cozyearth.com and use our code FDP for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth from us here at The Family Discipleship Podcast. Follow Us:
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Season 2 of the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.

0:14.3

This is Adam Griffin, and before we get to our topic of the hour, let me first introduce my two lovely co-hosts.

0:19.8

First, my church worker role model, Miss Cassie Bryant. How you doing today, Cassie? I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. Good. Glad to be back with you for season two. Me too. And of course, today we have with us the lady who's so much more than a trophy wife. Miss Chelsea Griffin, how you doing today, Chelsea? And stroke your wife you'll ever have.

0:56.1

That's right. Yeah. My first wife, Chelsea. And Cassie Bryant is a role model. You're right. She is a church worker role model, a church worker, and a role model. She's all of them. Yeah. So since on today's episode we're talking about modeling, I thought maybe we could start by revealing maybe who your childhood role model was. Who was somebody maybe on television or in sports politics that you looked up to and you thought, man, that guy, that gal, they're doing it

1:00.7

right. Who is that for you, Cassie? Who's your childhood role model? I mean, Carrie Strug, probably,

1:06.2

the Olympic gymnast. Oh. But then the Pink Power Range also held a pretty special place in my heart as a small child.

1:13.8

Those are both gymnasts kind of right. Wasn't the Pink Power Ranger kind of like the one that did all the

1:18.0

flips and stuff? Oh yeah. I think she was. Were you really into gymnastics as a kid? Was that a thing?

1:23.0

I think I wanted to be. I don't even remember if I, I think I did do gymnastics for a little while.

1:27.9

Chelsea's always told me that the ability to do a somersault is connected to the ability to read

1:32.4

somehow. Is that right, Chelsea? And I had a lot of trouble with somersaults as a kid.

1:37.4

Are you better at them as an adult? No. Can you do it? No. I cannot go forward. Forward

1:44.1

roll. I can do the log roll though like nobody's business. You get me I cannot go forward. Forward roll.

1:44.7

I can do the log roll, though, like nobody's business.

1:46.9

You're an overcomer, because somehow you read now.

1:50.7

Yeah, somehow I'm literate.

1:53.3

Chelsea, who is your childhood role model?

1:55.3

I don't care about baseball now, but I loved all these baseball players when I was a kid.

1:59.2

I loved Chipper Jones from the Atlanta Braves.

2:02.3

But I mean, I don't know if they were really role models. You know, was it Frank Thomas? Wasn't the Big Hurd? No, no. The Big Hurd played for the White Sox and I didn't, I didn't really care about him as a kid. You know, I really liked that as far as like female athletes that could be seen as a role model. You know who I thought was so cool with

2:17.2

Marian Jones and she was an Olympic athlete and won all these gold medals. But then I think it came out later that she was, I think she was juicing, I think. Didn't that? I don't know if that's accurate. This is not like this just in. Yes, yes. You're not using the source of any news. making the news. I could have sworn that happened way later and me being like, oh man.

2:37.6

Because I thought she was real cool. That's possible. Yeah. Well, I was obsessed with Zach Morris as a kid. That was kind of my role model. Of course, that wasn't real. But I thought that guy was the coolest. And I think he's still putting stuff out there. So way to go, Zach Morris. putting out there. I think they got a new show. Don't they have a new Save by the Bell show or something?

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