Mama bear apologetics, it's like doing whatever you have to do to protect your child

no matter how much you don't want to do it, but if it's going to protect your child,

you're going to rise up and do it and do it with fury.

What if we could take that mama bear instinct and then channel it towards looking at challenges

and defenses of the Christian faith?

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Okay, so if you think back to when we were raising our boys, you know, before they're out of the house married, now grandkids,

what would you say as a parent was your biggest concern spiritually for their lives?

What I hoped was that they would walk with Jesus and be totally surrendered to him.

My concern is that I would fail in being able to communicate that.

And I have so many and my fear was that the world would shape them instead of the gospel.

Yeah, and I thought you'd say something like that.

And one of my fears was that their faith would be so shallow that when they left our home, it could be destroyed.

Why? I didn't know that.

Yeah, I mean, there was part of me as a dad at least.

But you're also a pastor.

Yeah, and that's part of the reason it's like, am I giving them enough depth foundation so that when those beliefs are challenged, they can stand up and say, no, no, no.

What you're saying is a lie because of this and that.

I think so many parents worry about that, especially when our kids leave the house and they go to college.

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