Mentors Who Influence Eternity
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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What do you do when your child isn't open to hearing the gospel? It might be that God will use a mentor to help bring your son or daughter back to the faith. John asks Danny about someone who had a huge influence on his own faith growing up. Featuring David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock.
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| 0:00.0 | As a Christian parent you want your kids to grab onto the faith, but there might be a time when they're not really open to what you think. |
| 0:11.0 | Then it might be time for a mentor that God will use to bring them back to the truth. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Dr. Danny Werta. He leads our parenting department. |
| 0:21.7 | And we're going to hear now some more from a conversation we had with Mark Matlock and David Kinnaman. |
| 0:27.6 | They describe the qualities of a group they call resilient disciples, and previously they mentioned two qualities one having a real |
| 0:35.8 | relationship with Jesus and another practicing discernment we're going to hear |
| 0:41.0 | about the third quality today and we start off as Jim Daly shares his heart for the next generation. |
| 0:47.0 | David, I've got a heavy heart with that |
| 0:55.0 | the seed falling on the ground because all of us is committed Christian parents if we're living in that |
| 0:57.1 | resilient parent space you know that we're born again we have a relationship with |
| 1:01.2 | Christ we're doing the things we need to do, and we're living |
| 1:04.6 | our lives hopefully in such a way that we're leading people to Christ, etc. |
| 1:09.4 | That breaks my heart because what you're really saying is that some of our children obviously aren't |
| 1:15.8 | going to get there. I mean it brings tears to my eyes because that is the goal. |
| 1:21.2 | I mean one of the things I often say to my boys is I want to see you an eternity. |
| 1:25.9 | But the reality is for some people that's not going to happen with their kids. |
| 1:30.7 | And I think what's hitting me right now is the idea that we've got to do all we can do as human beings to till that soil in such a way that the Holy Spirit has the best chance of capturing our children. |
| 1:47.2 | And if we're doing things to prevent it, our rules orientation, our control freak out parenting type what you know |
| 1:56.0 | wow we're we're actually contributing to the hardening of that soil yeah and to the |
| 2:01.5 | lack of resilience in the the lives of these young people and that is what gives me such great confidence in the gospel today, you know, as a person who looks at culture and this generation. I'm so I'm so grateful to see the emotion in your eyes |
| 2:14.3 | as we sit here today, Jim, because a million and a half |
| 2:17.8 | interviews, a big chunk of those have been |
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