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Explaining the gospel to your kids might seem like a daunting task. on the Fuller along with Danny Werta who leads our parenting and youth team here

at Focus on the Family and Danny family devotions. I mean let's talk about this.

It's something that a lot of parents do to teach their kids about God but it can be

really difficult and there are pressures and expectations.

We have to decide what to do, especially when our kids are younger when it comes to family

devotions, what ideas do you have for kind of pushing through the barriers

and making it easier?

John, it is, some parents put tons of pressure on the need to teach everything right off the

bat, right?

And I think as parents we can relax so really a lot of it's about

modeling kids want to really naturally help out around the house they want to be a part of a home, belonging. A lot of things are

set up for us as parents to be able to tap into their imagination and talk about looking

for God in different places listening to God's voice

helping them recognize that and what's fascinating to me is that they have found

and that being the researchers the researchers have found that kids before the age of seven are very

vulnerable to learning about beliefs about what they're going to believe in and

that vulnerability is good and perhaps a little bit challenging.

Right, we may miss a great window of opportunity there.

And this is not about having to create theologians by the age of seven. This is about having them learn what

it means to be self-controlled, having them learn what it means to be kind, think

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