Using Stories to Pass Along the Gospel to Your Children | Ep. 82

Risen Motherhood

Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Most of us know that good storytelling captures our attention and impresses lessons on our hearts. The same is true for our children! The adventures, battles, victories, and resolutions whisper biblical truths that impact our children, often without them fully understanding how or why. In this episode, Emily and Laura share how stories can help us pass along the gospel and give examples of godly character to our children. A good story represents the Great Story, and wonderful tales laced with hope invite our children to know the greatest storyteller of all–God himself.

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0:00.0	Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel
0:09.8	like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel
0:14.9	to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether
0:20.9	you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true,
0:25.9	encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us.
0:36.7	Well, welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily here with my sister in
0:41.2	La Lora. Hey guys, and we are really excited about this topic today because it's close to our hearts.
0:48.4	Oh, very close. Yeah, we're both big, big readers. You guys have probably noticed the exponential
0:54.8	amounts of books that we showcase on Instagram and on Facebook and on our resources page and Emily
1:00.3	and I have just been so influenced by books. So, we're super excited to have an entire show
1:04.5	all about books. Yeah, and so one thing that we're starting to dabble in, remember again,
1:09.6	my oldest is like five and a half ish and more ish. It's four going on five. So, we are just kind of
1:16.4	starting into reading really good stories to our children and using those stories as a means to
1:23.3	just pass along the gospel to them and to talk about godly character treats and to just use it as
1:28.4	a jumping off point for conversation. And I feel like one of the most classic examples of that
1:33.6	is Chronicles of Nerd. Oh, it's the classic. Like, if you're going to start with a book, I think that's
1:38.2	the first thing that comes to every mom's mind is like that's the more chapter, the first chapter
1:42.4	book I want my kids to engage with. Yeah, and we were just started the other day, which I realized I
1:47.9	did a CS Lewis faux pas major faux pas. It started the series with the magicians. No, no, it's not what
1:54.8	you do. I googled in saw and then later I was like, oops, that was not right. So for background,
2:00.5	though, that's book one and we started with which makes logical sense. You Google it, that's what
2:05.0	happens. But common Lewis, I want to be like, what do you say when you identify with Lewis? But
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