The Spiritual Growth of a Father and Mother [On Becoming Great Parents 5 of 5]
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 39 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, Josh talks about what he's learning from his own spiritual journey right now and proposes a developmental spiritual growth model for fathers and mothers that moves us from a journey of being self-focused (fear) to others-focused (joy).
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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Time stamps:
(0:50) Introduction of topic
(3:28) What really matters when it comes to raising our kids?
(6:15) What’s warring against us in raising our children?
(7:08) Josh tells story of a revelation he got and how it’s shifting how he fathers
(10:30) Fear, gratitude, and the neurobiology of our experiences based on Philippians 4
(14:25) How are we experiencing Jesus in the here-and-now?
(15:55) What happens when we pay attention to every detail and person we encounter
(18:20) How the study of heaven influences how we parent and interact with others
(19:50) Brennan Manning’s insight on true-self versus false-self
(23:40) Introduction of the three stages of spiritual development of a parent
(24:14) Stage 1: “Becoming”
(28:30) What is the will of God for our lives?
(30:45) Stage 2: “Present”
(32:55) Stage 3: “In Community”
(34:30) The types of people we surround ourselves with
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 Straub. |
| 0:43.1 | Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast. |
| 0:54.3 | I cannot believe how fast the summer is going and that we are already in part five of five. |
| 1:01.6 | We are in episode five of five of this first series called On Becoming Great Parents. |
| 1:08.5 | And this week's episode is called the spiritual growth of a father and mother. |
| 1:13.0 | And it's based on a framework that I've developed on what does it look like to become and |
| 1:17.2 | grow as a parent spiritually. |
| 1:21.4 | And what's that process look like? |
| 1:23.4 | As I've noticed it in my own life, as I've noticed it in other people's lives, that's |
| 1:27.2 | what this episode is all about this week. It's part five already. I can't believe it. The final PDF |
| 1:34.3 | workbook download is in there in the show notes today. It has all five episodes from the past |
| 1:41.1 | five weeks, all the notes, all the questions, all the discussion |
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