Raising Spiritual Champions with George Barna
The Monica Swanson Podcast - boy mom, build strong families, Biblical worldview, women's wellness
Monica Swanson and Christian Parenting
5 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Renowned researcher and bestselling author, Dr. George Barna is with us to share some startling data, along with a passionate call-to-action for Christian parents. This may be the most important episode you could listen to, and I pray that what we talk about inspires you to a deeper level of commitment in your parenting. (Don’t run away – I promise you'll be encouraged!)
Dr. Barna’s recent book, Raising Spiritual Champions, focuses on the importance of raising kids with a Biblical Worldview, and how difficult this is in our world today. Part of the reason it is so difficult is that so few parents have a Biblical worldview. And as Barna says, we “cannot give what we don’t possess.”
Not only do a mere 2% of parents of preteens have a biblical worldview, but only 12% of Children’s Pastors do! Few Christians believe in absolute truth, and most Christians today are “syncretists”, meaning they draw their beliefs from a variety of competing worldviews, religions, and convenient concepts.
Raising children is an exciting opportunity to influence a life, but Barna says it’s also, “a daunting assignment.” Dr. Barna’s research reveals that who our children will be as adults is essentially determined by the age of 13 (their core beliefs, morals, values, desires and lifestyle.)
At the end of the conversation, I ask Dr. Barna to get practical and go through the “Seven Cornerstones” of a Christian worldview. I hope this is helpful and encouraging. Find those 7 Cornerstones as well as the rest of the links over in show notes:
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| 0:00.0 | Christian parenting. |
| 0:07.0 | Aloha friends and welcome to the Monica Swanson podcast powered by |
| 0:15.8 | Christian parenting I am Monica Swanson mom to four boys wife to Dr |
| 0:20.8 | Dave podcast host and author of Boy Mom, Raising Amazing, and the newly released |
| 0:27.3 | Becoming Home Schoolers. |
| 0:29.2 | Here on the podcast it is my goal to bring you practical advice and biblical wisdom for raising amazing kids and |
| 0:35.5 | building strong families. |
| 0:37.4 | You can always find show notes over at Monica Swanson.com forward slash podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm so glad you're here and I hope you'll be encouraged. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey friends welcome back to the podcast or if you're new here welcome to the |
| 0:58.5 | Monica Swanson podcast I love hanging out with you guys every Wednesday and I'm just going to tell you |
| 1:04.7 | straight from the start today that you're about to hear an interview that may be |
| 1:09.2 | my favorite yet in all these years of podcasting. I have interviewed some amazing people. I have a lot of favorites, |
| 1:16.7 | but Dr. George Barnet is with us today to talk about something that is so near and dear to my heart. |
| 1:22.8 | I was just re-listening to the episode |
| 1:26.6 | and got tears in my eyes as I'm just praying |
| 1:30.5 | that all of you listening will really take in everything he's sharing. |
| 1:34.5 | He's got some statistics, some information that is a little bit daunting to be honest. |
| 1:41.2 | I mean there's huge encouragement in this message. He talks about the great opportunity |
| 1:45.7 | we have as parents to influence our kids, but also just such a wake-up call and reminder that the world has changed. Our culture is changing and the stakes are high. |
| 1:57.3 | And when you hear what Dr. George Barnet is saying, I hope it spurs you to action and I'm praying for all of you. |
| 2:05.8 | I hope this is an episode you'll share with friends and family members and hopefully you can get your hands on Dr Barna's book we're talking about which is |
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