Uninvited Guests - How to Develop Your Child's Full Potential, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
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Summary
Have you ever seen a 5-year old drive a car? Well, you say, “Don’t be ridiculous!” Right! They watch you drive for years, before they begin to drive – with you in the car, and finally, they’re able to drive on their own. That’s a word picture for where Chip is headed today. Your children watch you as you live in obedience to the Lord, they practice obedience with you alongside, and finally, they live a life of love and obedience to God all on their own. Exactly how that process unfolds is what Chip explains in this message.
Introduction: God’s Dream for Your Child
- You must understand your child’s two primary needs are for SIGNIFICANCE and SECURITY.
- You must recognize your child’s primary responsibility is to learn OBEDIENCE.
- You must remember, obedience is a DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS.
- You must commit to providing the necessary RESOURCES for your child to learn obedience.
- Obedience is achieved when your child has TRANSFERRED his/her primary love, submission, and dependency from YOU to JESUS CHRIST.
Three characteristics of righteous children
- They make wise DECISIONS. -Philippians 1:9-11
- They keep their COMMITMENTS. -Proverbs 20:6
- They care genuinely for OTHERS. -John 15:13
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| 0:00.0 | We all know one thing for sure. Our kids have great potential. The question is, do you know how to develop your child's full potential? If not, stay with me. That's what we'll learn today. |
| 0:17.7 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Room. |
| 0:22.4 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians |
| 0:27.5 | to live like Christians. |
| 0:29.5 | Well, every parent knows how challenging it is to raise children in today's world. |
| 0:34.1 | Our kids are under such pressure, and parents are struggling to keep up with the relentless |
| 0:38.3 | demands. And in top of all that, how can you know what you're teaching your kids is sticking |
| 0:43.4 | and making a difference? Well, today, Chip dives into all of that as he picks up in our series |
| 0:48.4 | uninvited guests. So if you're ready, here again is Chip with the remainder of his talk, |
| 0:53.5 | how to develop your child's full of his talk, how to develop |
| 0:54.2 | your child's full potential. |
| 0:57.3 | When you want to develop obedience, you need to understand the age of your child and the |
| 1:02.3 | moral development because the goal, the goal is that they learn to obey from the heart, |
| 1:10.2 | you, and even more importantly than God. |
| 1:14.4 | Two principles I've found sort of undergird this. |
| 1:17.2 | One is the principle of readiness, and the other is the principle of responsibility. |
| 1:20.9 | Because if you're sitting here going out, like, how would you really do this? |
| 1:23.5 | The principle of readiness is stated here is only teach your children what they're mentally |
| 1:27.9 | and emotionally capable of learning. |
| 1:30.3 | What I mean about that is don't, don't, you know, here you've got, I see this happen |
| 1:36.8 | all the time, you've got this five-year-old and they can only think in concrete terms, and |
| 1:42.8 | you're trying to teach them something that's very abstract. It's much easier to see in the physical realm. Five-year-olds, with few exceptions, have very limited motor skills. They're still developing. Five-year-old, some develop faster and are ready and able to read, and others can't and shouldn't. But you have been inundated in a culture that says earlier, earlier, earlier, |
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