“What is My Responsibility in My Child’s Salvation?” :: Vela Tomba [Ep 431]
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to hope in a formulaic approach for our kids’ salvation - to think if we just pray and have the family bible studies we’re guaranteed our kids will make an early decision to follow Jesus. But what about when they don’t? How do we stay “ok” when our kids are choosing the things we wouldn’t choose for them? How do we trust in God’s relentless but gentle pursuit of our kids when we don’t see any evidence of it?
My guest this week, Vela Tomba, says we stay in our own hula-hoop. We let go of the things we cannot control. We allow ourselves grief but we also allow ourselves hope and trust in the way God is writing the story. She draws from her own experience as a mom and from helping other moms struggling with their kids’ choices.
Connect with Vela Tomba:
- Website: https://www.velatomba.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vela.tomba/
- Instagram: @velatomba
- Cru Campus Ministries
- Paige Brown Bible Study on Jonah (new videos each Wed with discussion questions…only up for a week)
- The Bible Recap with Tara Leigh Cobble
- Strong’s Concordance App
- Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself by Melody Beattie
- Pollyanna
Related Episodes:
- Hula Hoop-o-logy :: Vela Tomba [GCM Ep 28]
- Self-Differentiation and Why It Matters :: Nancy Houston [Ep 335]
- Summer of Mentorship 2019 Week One :: Nancy Williams
- Building Lasting Faith in Your Kids :: Dr. Kara Powell [Ep 290]
- Doubt, Questions and Your Teen’s Growing Faith :: Mary Jo Sharp [Ep 375]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Dole Mommel & Podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside |
| 0:14.9 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't momm alone. |
| 0:20.9 | And in this episode number 431, I'm welcoming back to the show, Vila Tamba. |
| 0:28.1 | We just have to trust God that he's going to be in charge of calling our kids and ruling |
| 0:33.4 | our kids. |
| 0:34.4 | He loves them more than we do. |
| 0:35.7 | He wants them in his kingdom, in his family, in relationship with him more than we do. |
| 0:42.7 | So he's longing for that, so he's running after them. |
| 0:46.0 | He is a pursuing God. |
| 0:48.8 | Vila is the mom to three grown ladies and the wife to the pastor of the church, I attend |
| 0:55.4 | at Northwest Bible. |
| 0:57.1 | She is also a past guest, like I said. |
| 1:00.4 | She came on the show eons ago, we talked about that at the beginning of this episode. |
| 1:04.6 | And I had her come on to mentor us in answering a listener's question about how responsible |
| 1:10.7 | what is our role in our kids' salvation. |
| 1:14.9 | And I felt like Vila has such great perspective on this. |
| 1:17.9 | She's been a mentor to me. |
| 1:19.7 | She has walked through parenting prodigals and is a seminary graduate. |
| 1:25.4 | So we get kind of deep into it y'all in this episode, but we also laugh a lot. |
| 1:29.6 | I hope you are encouraged. |
| 1:31.5 | Let's get right to it. |
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