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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Should You Tell Your Children Your Spouse Has Left Christianity?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to a question about whether you should tell your children your spouse has left Christianity, then he takes Open Mic calls about why John was called the greatest “among those born of women,” transgender children, and whether taking fertility drugs would interfere with God’s timing and plan.

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hello friends Greg Kockel here and the show is Stan To Reason. I am the host. Glad you're with me today.

0:37.4

It is not very frequently that I get asked a question that have not been asked before. When it happens it's almost always

0:46.0

on STRS, hashtag STRS and Amy and I are working together. If you don't

0:51.2

subscribe to that podcast you ought to if you enjoy what I'm doing here for you this is a whole

0:58.4

hour those are like 22 minutes and you get Amy in the mix and that's a definite leg up.

1:06.8

But it seems like we get questions in hashtag SCRS that tend to be more on the unique side, okay?

1:17.1

But I was asked a question, asked for some advice last week, actually from another ministry leader and she wondered how to manage

1:27.0

this issue and she'd wondered if I'd ever been asked this question before and

1:31.7

the question has to do with families

1:36.0

where you have a mother and a father who are Christian

1:40.0

and then in this particular iteration of the question the father deconstructs and

1:48.4

deconverts and becomes a non-Christian and maybe even becomes an atheist.

1:55.0

And there's children that had been being raised

2:00.0

in a Christian family. So they have a Christian family.

2:03.4

So they have a Christian familial community.

2:08.0

They're giving thanks at meals.

2:10.8

They're going to church on Sundays and maybe to other Christian events.

2:15.0

Maybe the father and or mother are making regular investments in the spiritual life of the children and that's all bearing fruit.

2:27.3

And then something happens.

2:32.1

Dad's not so sure.

2:34.4

Dad's wondering of Christianity is actually true.

2:37.2

Dad is deconstructing, and then dad deconverts.

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