When You Don't Know the Answer
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes when your child asks you a question, it's okay to admit you don't know the answer. John and Danny give some recommendations on where to turn to for when your child asks a difficult question about God. Featuring Natasha Crain.
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| 0:00.0 | I think there is a pivot point for me when I realized I didn't know everything and I wasn't expected to know everything as a parent. |
| 0:11.0 | There's that moment in time when you look at your child and just think they know more than me on this matter and that's not a bad thing. I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by our vice president of parenting Dr Danny Werta. Jim |
| 0:23.8 | Daly and I talked with Natasha Crane. She's passionate about teaching kids to |
| 0:28.3 | understand who God is and here's more from that conversation. |
| 0:31.8 | I've heard so many testimonies, and I didn't grow up in a Christian home. |
| 0:36.0 | My mom did teach us the golden rule, and we had a respect for the Christian ethos. |
| 0:42.0 | But as children, we never went to church. for the Christian ethos. |
| 0:42.7 | But as children, we never went to church. |
| 0:44.9 | I shouldn't say never. |
| 0:45.7 | We went Christmas, Easter, special holidays. |
| 0:49.8 | But we didn't have a lot of training. |
| 0:52.4 | And, you know, so when I encounter families |
| 0:56.1 | where they're 18 or 19 year old I'm talking to them they'll even say you know |
| 0:59.5 | I just never had a moment where anybody asked me to accept Christ into my heart. That's such a tragedy, right? |
| 1:05.1 | That the kids will grow up in Christian homes and we never spend the time to say, |
| 1:09.7 | have you embraced Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. |
| 1:12.8 | It seems simple, but sometimes we just forget, |
| 1:15.4 | isn't that crazy? |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:17.8 | And then kids end up borrowing your faith. |
| 1:19.9 | They just kind of go along with emotions |
| 1:22.0 | because they think that's what you're supposed to do and |
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