The God They See: Why Theology is Unignorable as a Parent
FamilyLife Today®
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, when you’re disciplining, breaking up fights, or chatting in the car—would you believe you’re doing theology? Theologian Kelly Kapic knows theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are.
Theology is about life, which means our souls can’t afford to avoid it.
So what version of God are our kids internalizing? How can we respond thoughtfully in talks with our kids about acceptance, injustice, suffering, poverty, and moral absolutes?
Kelly, author of A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology, offer do-this-now ideas to shape an unshakeable theology that can stand up to whatever life tosses at our kids.
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| 0:00.0 | When we say like theology matters in this practical we're not saying you actually need to be perfect. |
| 0:05.6 | The good theology is you show your kids I need to ask for forgiveness. |
| 0:10.2 | Yeah. To say I don't know. You're to let the kids see you begging God for things, you wrestling with God for things. |
| 0:18.0 | That's actually good theology. |
| 0:20.0 | Theology is not about giving all the right answers, because we don't always have them. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:39.0 | You can find us at FamilyLife Today. |
| 0:41.0 | This is Family Life Today. This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:44.0 | So do you know what my favorite seminary class was? |
| 0:54.0 | Communication? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, sort of what we do now. |
| 0:59.0 | I know. |
| 1:00.0 | I should have done better than that class. |
| 1:01.0 | I should have paid more attention. |
| 1:02.0 | I loved that class. You did? My favorite probably was Old Testament survey with Walter Kaiser. Yeah, he was good. What was yours? Theology. I had J.P. Moreland, who many people might recognize that name now. He was a young prophet at the time working on his PhD at USC you know we were an hour away in |
| 1:26.4 | in San Bernardino but he taught theology in a way that expanded my mind. I remember thinking I do not even know how to think |
| 1:37.1 | about God until taking that class like this is really critical how you view and understand the attributes who God is. |
| 1:46.4 | Okay let me ask you this before we have a guest. |
| 1:48.7 | No wait wait wait I want to ask you one more question before you went to seminary |
| 1:52.2 | would you have considered yourself a theologian? |
| 1:55.3 | No. |
| 1:56.3 | Me neither. |
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