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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Sharing Why You Love God

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Rather than hearing you preach about staying away from what's wrong, your child wants to know that your relationship with God is authentic. John and Danny share how you can have conversations with your kids about God, and balance them with discussing what's right and wrong. Featuring Dr. Meg Meeker.

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0:00.0

You can't force your child to follow Christ, but one of the great privileges you have of being a mom or a dad is sharing your story about why you've chosen to follow God. I'm John Fuller along with my

0:15.4

focus colleague Dr Danny Werta and Dr Meg Meeker is a very popular guest. She's a

0:21.0

pediatrician and Jim Daly asked her about ways that you can teach your kids

0:25.9

about the importance of following Christ.

0:28.6

Let me ask perhaps the question. What are some of the ways that parents, and I, in the context of moms and

0:35.8

daughters, what are some of the things that those moms can teach their daughters

0:41.7

to turn to God and to

0:43.0

trust him.

0:45.0

I mean that's a big question.

0:47.0

And it's not formulaic.

0:48.0

And I know some parents who have 20-something daughters right now are going,

0:52.0

we failed.

0:53.9

Somehow we missed it.

0:55.2

And we thought we were doing all the right things.

0:57.2

And my heart goes out to them.

0:58.9

Because again, it's not a formula.

1:01.1

It's just a predictive outcome that if you do these things you're more likely to have a daughter who is healthy and doing well.

1:09.0

But you can do all those things and the daughter makes her own choices and some parents are

1:14.4

grieving that right now because their daughter is living with the boyfriend.

1:17.6

That's quite common today even for Christian kids.

1:20.6

Oh yeah yeah and so speak to that idea of formula versus predictive inputs,

1:27.6

but what are those things a mom needs to be doing to turn their daughters

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