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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Start Christian Apologetics Early

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When should you start teaching kids to defend their faith? J. Warner Wallace and Jim Daly answer that question. Plus, Danny and John will encourage you to not be scared about some of the challenges your kids might face regarding their faith.

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0:00.0

As your child is growing, it's good to shape their understanding of what you believe

0:08.5

about Jesus. There is so much available out there in the world.

0:12.7

It's best to have healthy, productive, positive, ongoing conversations in your home,

0:18.9

and really to do that as early as possible.

0:21.6

I'm John Fuller, along with the head of our parenting team

0:24.1

Dr. Danny Huerta and we're going to jump right into a conversation with

0:28.1

Jay Warner Wallace. He joined Focus President Jim Daly at a live event in Dallas and it was a great conversation

0:37.6

In that context though, you know when the kids especially 18-19-20 they go after college.

0:43.1

They're getting a lot of worldly information.

0:47.8

And you mentioned, you know, so many of them

0:49.6

in that first semester start to pull away. and what they're hearing in college

0:55.2

classrooms puts doubt into them. So what's the art of when they're home for

1:01.1

the Christmas break? Yeah and now you're having the debate

1:05.0

about evolution or some other aspect of something they've learned in that first second

1:10.3

semester of college.

1:11.3

Tempermentally as a parent, how do you go about absorbing that and still influence them?

1:20.5

Okay, so a lot of you have kids who are that age.

1:23.0

And so what I'm about to say to me,

1:25.0

I don't want to be a buzzkill, okay?

1:28.0

But...

1:29.0

Okay, I think you just are setting us up for a buzz kill.

1:32.0

Yeah. So, so here's what I hear people, it's changed, right?

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