When Your Son or Daughter is Deconstructing Faith (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As a young man, John Marriott was questioning his Christian beliefs. He began analyzing and “deconstructing” his faith. Then, he RE-constructed his faith, built on the strong foundation of Jesus Christ. In an age where young people are seeking truth and authenticity, Marriott shares why many are leaving the Christian faith and how you can pray for and encourage others to rest in the truth of God’s Word. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Jim Daly for Focus on the Family, and I'd like to talk to you about our |
| 0:05.7 | option ultrasound program. |
| 0:07.8 | For the past 20 years, we have been, you have been, providing ultrasound technology and training to pregnancy centers |
| 0:15.0 | all across the United States. As a result, more than half a million women |
| 0:19.6 | who were considering abortion have chosen to protect the life of their |
| 0:24.4 | pre-born baby. That's an incredible milestone and I'm so thankful for the |
| 0:28.6 | generosity of friends like you who have partnered with us to rescue these precious moms and their children. |
| 0:35.8 | But the need is ongoing. |
| 0:37.8 | It's not over. |
| 0:38.8 | There are so many voices in today's culture who are relentless about abortion rights and they're willing to |
| 0:45.1 | sacrifice the next generation. We can't let that happen. We need to be diligent. |
| 0:51.5 | Speak up for life by giving generously to option ultrasound and we'd |
| 0:56.3 | love to hear from you by June 30th. Donate at Focus on the Family.com Save Lives Today, or call 800, the letter A and the word family. And the most important thing I think that we can do is to have a warm and loving relationship with them. And it's out of that warm and loving relationship with them. |
| 1:23.4 | And it's out of that warm and loving relationship that we really are going to pass on our faith. |
| 1:28.5 | That's Dr. John Marriott joining us again today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, sharing how you can walk |
| 1:33.9 | alongside someone who's struggling in their faith. I'm John Fuller and thanks for |
| 1:38.1 | joining us. John yesterday we talked about the term deconstruction, you know we apply these big sounding terms |
| 1:45.1 | to something simple which means when your children typically teens and |
| 1:48.7 | adults begin to question whether the faith is really true. It's something they can embrace and it can |
| 1:55.2 | take our kids on a different path where they begin to push back a little bit and |
| 1:59.7 | if you didn't hear it last time get a hold of it because it was jam-packed with great parenting advice on how to relate to your teens or your 20-30-somethings when it comes to their deconstruction of their faith. |
| 2:13.2 | And that's one of the things we want to do for you here is to equip you for these tough |
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