Here's a wonderful question from a dad of teenagers named Ryan.

Ryan is a ministry partner with us at Desiring God, and he is a wife recently joined us

in the beautiful state of Washington.

And there you led a few, look at the book sessions, Pastor John, which is where you teach

the Bible by drawing on the Bible's text on your iPad.

After the event, Ryan wrote us to ask this, Pastor John, hello, watching you work through

Scripture in lab form is so encouraging to my own soul and my own Bible study.

Thank you.

As we look to disciple our teenage children at home, however, we can feel inadequate

explaining passages this way and are concerned that we are either missing the point or

worse teaching them incorrectly.

Do you recommend using techniques like you do in lab when training children or do you

recommend another technique?

How can parents of teens train their kids to do something lab-like?

Well, it seems to me that the first thing a parent has to reckon with is whether the setting

has been created in the family or in the church where this kind of teaching will feel suitable

for the young person.

So yes, I do think we should try to teach our young people.

But this question of have we have we created the setting and what I mean is is the family

used to having devotions, which simply involves the reading of Scripture in prayer.

If so, it may feel awkward or strange if we suddenly turn that kind of moment in our

family into a classroom setting with assignments and questions and so on.

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