Training Your Kids to Love God & Church
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When your child is learning about God, it may be that he or she doesn't enjoy going to church. John and Danny offer some thoughts on how to encourage them that church is important. Featuring Natasha Crain.
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| 0:00.0 | When your son or daughter |
| 0:05.0 | and learning about who God is, sometimes your son or daughter might have, well, let's call it an interesting question just out of the blue. |
| 0:12.0 | Like, I think I remember being asked one time |
| 0:14.1 | what does God smell? How does God smell? What's that look like dad and I had no clue |
| 0:21.6 | where to go with that? I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta who leads our parenting team here and Danny |
| 0:27.2 | what's one of the funnier questions you've heard either one of your own kids or |
| 0:30.9 | maybe one of the kids you were counseling about who God is or something like |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah I've gotten some funny ones along the way John one of them I guess I'll stretch what we can |
| 0:39.7 | mention here and on the show and one of them is does God get hungry? I was asked that. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, it's a fair question. The other one was did Jesus toot when he was on earth? |
| 0:50.0 | But did he toot? And I was like, well, I think it's reasonable to wonder |
| 0:56.2 | of that when you're a kid. So now that we planted that thoughts there are going to be |
| 1:00.5 | adults writing us or commenting and that's okay. |
| 1:03.0 | That's right. I mean that was a boy. |
| 1:04.5 | There's a little boy and he was trying to match up with the experience and he just |
| 1:09.5 | asked that and I just looked at him and I go yeah probably most likely I mean it's human so yeah |
| 1:15.8 | humans do that so that's it okay there it is well let's go ahead and hear from somebody who has collected some good questions and |
| 1:25.8 | some thoughtful responses to what you might be asked about Jesus particularly |
| 1:31.0 | with regard to his death on the cross. |
| 1:34.0 | On a previous episode, |
| 1:35.0 | Natasha Crane talked with Jim Daly |
| 1:38.0 | about three reasons why Jesus was crucified. |
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