Family Discipleship Time
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
- Why is having time in the word or worship a critical component of leading a family?
- What are some examples of family discipleship time? What would be a daily, weekly, or monthly example?
- What do you think most families do with their time together? Is there a way to leverage those times they are already together to make it a time for family discipleship?
- Where should family discipleship be on our list of priorities?
- Why do you think it’s so easy for parents to treat family discipleship so casually and with so little intentionality?
- What are your favorite memories of family discipleship time?
- Would you consider the commitment to going to church together part of a family’s family discipleship time?
- In the book Family Worship, Donald Whitney talks about the simple formula of Read, Pray, Sing. What does that look like though for different ages of kids?
- Do you have any resources that you suggest for Family Discipleship Time for different age families?
- “Our kids are unwise by nature. The bible says that “folly is stored up in the heart of a child.” It’s such a delight to read the word with our kids and just to see God’s goodness in that his word can be understood by kids. He can reveal himself to children.” - Chelsea Griffin
- “It would be strange in a Christian family to all read our bibles separately. No. We should read it with our children from day one.” - Chelsea Griffin
- “There are so many other things in your life that you’re preparing for all the time and they’re not nearly as important as this. You’re preparing meals everyday. You’re not going to not feed yourself or your kids. You’re preparing for work or your home. That’s the same amount of time we are asking you to consider preparing for something way more important – investing in the spiritual life of your kids.” - Adam Griffin
- “Church is a big part of our family discipleship time. Being together with the local body is an important thing to prioritize.” - Cassie Bryant
- “Almost every family has time in the car together. What’s great about that is that everyone is strapped down! That can be a great time for worship or to pray together or to talk about scripture.” - Chelsea Griffin
- “We make time for the things we want to do. You don’t work for your clock or your calendar, they work for you.” - Adam Griffin
- “If we believe that scripture is authoritative and it is sufficient and that it is our daily bread then we should be partaking in it everyday.” - Cassie Bryant
- “Being in God’s word everyday is acknowledging our dependence on him – in my personal walk but also as a family.” - Cassie Bryant
- “We hear people talk all the time about finding a church with the best kid’s stuff. What I really want everyone to be able to say is that the best kids ministry is at my house. No one loves my kids like I do. I know them and I know what they’re going through.” - Chelsea Griffin
- Family Worship by Donald Whitney
- Long Story Short - Marty Machowski
- Old Story New - Marty Machowski
- Jesus Storybook Bible - Sally Lloyd-Jones
- Indescribable - Louie Giglio
- They Ology - Marty Marchowski
- Good Book Company Kids Books - Tales that Tell the Truth
- Poetic Pilgrim’s Progress - Rousseaux Brasseur
- Radical Book for Kids - Champ Thornton
- Prince Warrior - Priscilla Shirer
- Green Ember Series - S.D. Smith
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Adam Griffin, and before we get to our topic of the hour, let me first introduce my two lovely co-hosts. |
| 0:18.0 | First, the heroine of family devotions, Miss Cassie Bryant. Cassie, how you doing today? Hello. I don't think I knew that's how you said heroin. That's how you say? I think I always thought it was heroin. Heroine? Yeah, not like the drug. Like I didn't know. Like a female hero would be a heroin? Female hero. Well, a hero. Maybe heroine? I don't know. I'm just saying I didn't know, but now female hero would be a heroine, female hero. Well, like hero. |
| 0:38.0 | Maybe heroine. |
| 0:39.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm just saying I didn't know. |
| 0:40.6 | But now I know, Adam. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.2 | Yep. |
| 0:51.8 | I love it. Okay. And then the woman I love to worship with Chelsea Griffin. How you doing today, Chelsea? Good. you know, for a second, it sounded like you're going to say the woman I love to worship, |
| 0:55.6 | and I was going to be like, that's flattering and concerning all at the same time. |
| 0:58.9 | That's what I, you are my heroine you know in more ways than one you know I'm addicted to you because you're my heroine and uh you're also my female hero like both of those |
| 1:04.2 | all right well today we're talking about family discipleship time. |
| 1:14.5 | But first, before we get into that, let me restart here a little bit. |
| 1:19.1 | This season, we're doing kind of an eight episode kind of arc to talk about family discipleship, modeling, time, moments, milestones, and then have an episode after each one |
| 1:26.1 | of those where we have on a special guest. And I'm really excited about our guests this season who kind of like flesh it out for us. We've got some great guests. We do. In fact, the next week we'll have Ruth Joe Simons is going to talk about writing a devotional, talking about resourcing for family discipleship time. I'm really excited about that. I'm a big fan. Yeah, she's great. After the milestones |
| 1:45.4 | episode, we'll have John Tyson talking about milestones with your, in particular, sons, but we'll talk |
| 1:50.7 | about daughters as well. But before we get into kind of today's topic, Cassie, can you give us a |
| 1:55.5 | quick summary of the framework for family discipleship? What are modeling, time, moments, milestones? What are all those? |
| 2:01.7 | Happy to. We think of the framework through those four words. We believe that primarily modeling, |
| 2:08.7 | or I guess first and foremost, that you should be modeling what a relationship with Christ |
| 2:12.6 | looks like and that just is happening out of an overflow, kind of of your affections and your |
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