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Risen Motherhood

How Discipline Helps Us Communicate the Gospel | Ep. 57

Risen Motherhood

Risen Motherhood

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Before we've even grown comfortable in the role of motherhood, it starts...the fall-to-the-floor tantrums, the food throwing, the back-talking, the hitting, and even the selective hearing. Suddenly, we're faced with the the reality that our children are sinners, and moreso, that God has given us the authority to do something about it! With a sea of opinions and resources, it's easy to just feel paralyzed. In this episode, Emily and Laura give an overview of discipline in the early years, especially focusing on using it as a tool to communicate the gospel. Discipline will play out differently in each family, but the goal is the same: pointing our sinful children to their desperate need for the perfect Savior.

Resources:

Although neither of us follow, subscribe to, or endorse one particular book or method of discipline, we still wanted to share some resources we've learned from (in different ways). Please see this not as the "perfect" list for discipline resources, but as a place to begin your own prayerful research and learning!

Mentioned in the Show:
  • Defining Discipline: Hebrews 12:3-11 (ESV)
  • Practical Takeaways for Each Section of the Gospel Mentioned:
    • Establish clear expectations according to God's word, and train the child to respond to those expectations. Practice immediate obedience when they are young with early commands like, "Come" or "Stop" in a low-stakes environment.
    • When children fail obey at an age-appropriate level (and they will!), provide consistent, loving discipline (not in anger or with a desire to punish/shame). This might be things like: time-out, natural consequences, loss of privilege, verbal rebuke, spanking, etc.
    • As the Holy Spirit leads, use discipline as a teachable moment to point the child to their need for a Savior. Pray together, hug, and always remember to reconcile after discipline -- forgiving them and keeping short accounts.
    • Train your children in righteousness by encouraging them, practicing "doing what is right" in a low-stakes environment, and equipping them in everyday situations. See discipline in the context of disciple-making, and give your children the bigger picture: they are an image-bearer of God, created for relationship with Him for His glory.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel

0:09.8

like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel

0:14.9

to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether

0:20.9

you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true,

0:25.9

encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us.

0:31.9

Well, hey guys and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I have my sister-in-law,

0:40.2

Emily Jensen here. Hey guys. And I'm Laura Whiffler. And we are doing a long,

0:47.5

awaited show for all of you today. We are going to be talking about discipline. This is

0:53.1

something that I feel like Emily, we get a question about, I don't know, once a week. It feels

0:58.3

like quite a bit. You guys are understandably so. I have so many questions about discipline,

1:04.9

but the problem is we have the same questions. And so we're not, we have avoided doing this show

1:09.9

because we feel like we're still fearing the sound. We don't have the answers and that we're sort

1:13.6

of asking the same questions that you are. And Emily's oldest is four and a half and mine is four

1:18.2

next month. And so I feel like two, we just feel like we're not super deep down this road with,

1:23.7

there's not the proof in the pudding that we can say, hey, we did this and look at how wonderful

1:27.6

our children are. And so yeah, I think that's what's been the hang up or the slow down, but we're

1:33.7

excited to tackle it from sort of the gospel, like the high level side of things. So it'll be less

1:38.8

on the practical, but really just general truth about discipline that you can apply right now and

1:45.6

hopefully encourages your heart and encourages the way that you discipline, even if that's a little

1:50.7

bit different from from the way we do it or or another mom. Yeah, and we're we're right there with

1:55.6

you probably one of the reasons a lot of you guys want to know like how do I discipline my toddler

2:02.0

or how do I get started on discipline or what resources do I look to is because there are just so

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