Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at

Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast.

When it comes to teaching your kids about what it means to be a Christian, take a moment, step back, and reflect on what

your life was like before you met God.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and we're going to hear from Natasha Crane about helping your child grow in their faith.

And here's Jim Daly.

This might be the most critical question of all and of course we're going to encourage you to get

Natasha's book because I think every parent I don't care how old your kids are

both for yourself as well as for your children need to answer these 30

questions and be proficient at thinking them through.

But here's the one. How can we help our children understand how to have a relationship

with a God they can't see and in most cases can't really audibly hear.

It's that intuitive Holy Spirit voice that we hear in our hearts and our souls.

How do we do that? How do we help them have that

relationship? I think that's a great question to ask because a lot of times parents

come at it from assuming that because we've become used to having a relationship with a

God that we don't physically see in here that our kids will know how to do that.

But it's a really foreign thing if you think about it.

When you put yourself in your kids shoes your young kids shoes and you're

telling them that God exists and God loves them and hey you need to love him too and

here start having this relationship it's very hard to explain that and so I think

number one it's important for us to just

...