Gospel-Focused Conversations Joel Fitzpatrick Ep 251

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for Father’s Day we have a great conversation with Joel Fitzpatrick, a pastor and author, who encourages dads (and moms) to have gospel-focused conversations with their sons.

“There’s power in having conversations with your kids that opens up your relationship. It’s a freedom that gives your kids a safe place to talk to someone. But then it also gives you the ability to speak God's truth into their lives.”

We talk about the barriers that keep us from going deep with our kids and how to fight back against the fear and complacency that can become commonplace. Joel also shares how Jesus is the ultimate picture of biblical masculinity and how to be an emotionally safe parent for your son or daughter.

“We need to be very careful with our emotions when our kids come and they confess their sins to us. When your son comes to you and he's been angry, you need to be careful not to respond in anger, but to respond with love and with kindness and with using your strength to provide a place of safety.”

This is an episode that would be perfect to share with your spouse and the dads in your life. Joel shares a lot of truth for both moms and dads about how we can stay actively engaged with our kids and keep the gospel message at the forefront.

For more on this topic, Joel has a new book out called Between Us Guys. Also, my recent podcast with Vicki Courtney [Ep 239] has some more great information on having deep conversations.

As Joel shares, it comes down to setting aside intentional time to go deep with our kids. What step can you make this summer to have a gospel-centered conversation with your son or daughter?

What we chat about:

Joel’s background as a construction worker and as a minister
What are gospel conversations and how do we have them with our kids
How to fight against fear and complacency to continually engage with our kids
Biblical masculinity vs worldly masculinity
Working with a son who is displaying aggression and violence
Keeping our emotions in check when we’re having tough discipline conversations
Look at your kids’ lives as a timeline and not a snapshot
Learning to process emotions in a healthy way with our kids
Being aware of your sons’ emotions and actively engaged with how he is processing them
Teaching sons how to think about and interact with women in light of the gospel

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alon podcast.
0:10.2	I'm your host Heather McFadden, and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside
0:14.8	you and connect you with people and resources who remind you you don't mom alone.
0:20.7	In this episode, number 251, in honor of Father's Day, I've invited dad, author, pastor, Joel
0:28.9	Fitzpatrick to talk about having life-changing gospel-centered conversations with our boys.
0:36.6	The reality is the most masculine male that we have a picture of is Jesus.
0:43.3	When we look at Him, we see the picture of masculinity completely embodied.
0:51.4	And when we look at Jesus, what do we see?
0:54.0	We see someone who's gentle, who's behind, who cares for the broken, who cares for the
1:01.2	broken hearted, who seeks after the outcast, who loves to bring children in.
1:09.3	We see this person who sacrifices himself so that other people can live.
1:15.4	You see the reality is what we see in Jesus is we see an embodiment of the gospel.
1:21.1	And that's how the gospel begins to change our conversations with our kids about what
1:25.3	masculinity is.
1:27.7	Drop the mic, Joel.
1:29.6	In a world where we are struggling to define masculinity and a Gillette commercial can
1:35.9	send us all into a tailspin, I love how Joel Fitzpatrick, the author of the new book,
1:40.8	between us guys, points our eyes back to Jesus.
1:45.2	There's more that he says in this episode.
1:48.2	He's encouraging us to take a risk and engage in gospel center conversations with our kids,
1:53.9	push past the fear, the complacency.
1:57.0	We also talk through how to deal with a son who's displaying aggression and violence,
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