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Dad Tired

Should You Make Your Kids Go To Church?

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family, Christianity

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of Dad Tired, Jerrad sits down with Kaleb and Chris for an honest conversation about one of the most common tensions Christian parents face: What do I do when my kid doesn’t want to go to church anymore?

Together, they talk through the difference between forcing empty religion and faithfully leading your home, why Sunday worship is about more than personal preference, and how our kids are formed by seeing real stories of redemption inside the body of Christ. This conversation is a call for dads to lead with conviction, compassion, and consistency as they disciple their families toward Jesus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. I apologize in advance for this long, somewhat sappy introduction. I've been traveling. I think I've been gone like nine out of the last 11 weeks or something crazy like that. The family and I, we've been all over the country doing lots of dad tired conferences and our family camp. We just got back from that a couple days ago. We partner with wind shape family camps. it is one of the highlights of our year we

0:21.7

did dad tired one day conferences all over the country did a father son right of passage trip with other

0:26.3

dad tired dads in alaska it's just been insane and such fruitful like amazing stuff that we've seen

0:32.9

god do in the last few weeks that being said i just feel like i miss you guys like i've kind of

0:37.4

missed the podcast we've we recorded a bunch of episodes ahead of time so that there was one do in the last few weeks. That being said, I just feel like I miss you guys. Like I've kind of missed

0:37.7

the podcast. We've recorded a bunch of episodes ahead of time so that there was one dropping every

0:42.3

week. But me personally like sitting at this desk and just hanging out with you guys, I feel like

0:47.0

has been several months now. So I'm just really excited to slow down a little bit, get back to

0:53.1

focusing on the podcast and having some good

0:55.1

conversations and being with you, blah, blah, blah. Sorry for being so sentimental. I'll just get

1:00.7

straight to it. Sitting down again with my friends, Caleb and Chris, some of my best friends in the

1:05.3

world. And we're talking about what does it look like for us to be the kind of men, husbands,

1:08.8

fathers, disciples that God has called us to. If you haven't signed up for our Dad Tired Retreat, it is coming up so soon. Make sure that you sign up for that today. Go to Daddard.com. Click the annual retreat tab. If you want to do a one-day conference at your church, you can also go to the Dad Tired website and we'll get you some more information on that. Okay, stop blabbering get out of the way let's jump into today's episode all right so we have a couple

1:33.1

of special guests today or if you're listening from the dad tired side of things um jared

1:38.6

kaleb and chris all sitting down together to have a conversation about manhood, parenting, all those things.

1:46.4

And here's a question that I think gets pressed pretty strongly in our cultural moment.

1:53.3

And now you guys are in South Carolina, right?

1:55.4

And we're here right now in San Diego.

1:57.7

And this tension of being a and saying what does the difference

2:01.8

between I'll frame it in this question you your 16 year old wakes up one

2:07.8

morning and you what's your old how old is your oldest 20 21 that's right

2:14.6

almost 15 okay so let's 15. Elijah, right?

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