Welcome back to another episode of apostolic life in the 21st century.

It's good to have you with us today.

Today's episode is for all of the apostolic parents out there,

or maybe for those of you who are hoping that down the road, God will

bless you with children. Dr. Bernard, one of my greatest blessings in life is that I'm the parent

of two children. I have a daughter and a son, and I think I would speak for a lot of apostolic,

hopefully I speak for all apostolic Pentecostals out there when I say

that as a parent, my greatest desire is I want to raise my kids to be apostolic Pentecostal. I want

them to be to follow in in my footsteps as a apostolic believer. I recognize, though, when I say that,

that there are no guarantees. I recognize up front that there's nothing I can do that is going to absolutely 100% ensure that that's going to happen because my kids have, they're like me, they have free will.

But I'm asking you this question today because you've been a pastor, so you've tried to coach and counsel parents, and you're the father of three children, all of whom

are in the church, are involved in ministry. I want to know what do you feel like are really

the key principles or the key concepts that parents, and I would extend this to grandparents

as well, can do or put in place to increase the

likelihood that their children are going to be apostolic Pentecostal. You know, that's an

important question. I want to underscore something you said. First of all, whatever I say,

we really do understand each person as they become an adult, they have an ability to choose.

And no matter how wonderful the parents, or no matter how they're wonderful the training,

we cannot guarantee that a child is going to grow up and serve the Lord.

We want them to.

We believe we can increase the odds tremendously.

We can give them every advantage, but in the end, they have to make a choice.

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