The Spiritual Development of a Father & Mother

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As a parent, what are we truly aiming for? What really is the goal of all this stuff we put into a bucket called “parenting?”

And, at a deeper level, have I thought about how my own spiritual journey influences how my children live out their faith and find purpose for how they live their lives? Does this matter to me as I think about how I’m engaging the task of “parenting?”

In this episode, I (Josh) talk about what I'm learning from my own spiritual journey right now. From this, I propose a developmental spiritual growth model for fathers and mothers that moves us from a journey of being self-focused (fear) to others-focused (joy).

I have seen these three stages of spiritual development come to light through my own spiritual growth in the past few years and would love to share them with you to see if, and how, you might resonate with them. They are:

Becoming (internal healing and growth).
Present (external presence where others feel seen).
In community (inviting others into our journey).

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	And I think that what that's doing is there's a trickle-down effect of anxiety.
0:05.9	Research shows this.
0:06.7	There's a trickle-down effect of anxiety from parents to kids.
0:09.1	I think there's a trickle-down effect of joy, that the atmosphere that we're creating in
0:12.7	our home is that of joy.
0:14.0	And that's why I think the discipleship of a parent is so critical.
0:17.5	Who we are becoming is everything.
0:19.3	We talk about this often.
0:24.2	And so my encouragement and my challenge to each of us as parents is to go, at the end of the day, how are we experiencing
0:31.8	the presence of Jesus today in the here and now? You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Strobe.
0:43.1	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:53.0	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:55.3	If you've been listening over the last few weeks, I hope you have.
0:58.0	If you haven't, I encourage you to go back.
1:00.4	We've talked recently about our journey.
1:03.2	Two weeks ago, we talked about our journey kind of where God has us.
1:06.2	We updated a little bit on that and some lessons that we've been learning.
1:09.8	And this episode is coming out
1:11.6	of some of those lessons. So there were some things in that episode that kind of were coming up
1:16.5	that I alluded to some things changing and some things that we're going through and learning
1:20.7	that I wanted to highlight a little bit here today on this episode. And then last week,
1:26.1	Christy talked about tender and fierce and kind of
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