Motivating Kids to Reflect the Character of God, Part 3
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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It’s our job as parents to help our children understand how to apply the Bible to their daily lives. John and Danny discuss how parents can use language about the fruit of the spirit or the feeding of the five thousand to show how God can work in the lives of their children.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you |
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| 0:11.0 | So if you've been in the church for a long time you might have a really good idea of applying |
| 0:14.9 | scripture to your daily lives but your kids now they may not know how to do that. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werthera, head of our focus on the family |
| 0:24.2 | parenting department and Danny there are so many concepts in the Christian life |
| 0:28.6 | that are hard even for adults to get and then apply, our children, it's really hard for them, but it's our |
| 0:36.4 | job as parents to help nurture them spiritually. |
| 0:40.0 | What do you think about that? |
| 0:41.0 | Well, many times we assume, there are assumptions on our part that, hey, we've talked about these |
| 0:46.0 | things forever and it's just common day language. |
| 0:48.0 | But you're absolutely right, John. |
| 0:50.0 | Kids, especially creative thinkers. |
| 0:52.0 | I found creative thinkers or really linear thinkers to get lost in the in all |
| 0:57.3 | the words that are being talked about in different ways right a creative thinker may |
| 1:01.2 | have all these pictures they start to picture that aren't even related. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, fruit of the spirit. |
| 1:05.0 | So that's like pineapples and peaches and yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, and the linear thinkers are thinking very, very, so the logical thinkers. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah. To think of a fish, right, of a miracle. |
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