In case you missed this past Sunday’s message, Pastor Mike challenged us to look at ourselves as coaches in the lives of children. We point them in the way to go and then get out of the way. Perhaps the larger struggle is how do we coach them? He listed a variety of opportunities to be intentional in the spiritual development of children:

1. Prayer: we can pray for our children (protection, wisdom, courage, God’s will) and we can pray with our children (meals, bedtime, decisions, crisis, traveling)

2. Bible Study: family devotions around meal time or bedtime, reviewing sunday school lessons, simply reading scripture together

3. Spiritual conversations: looking for opportunities to talk about making decisions based on scripture, why your family makes certain moral decisions

Regardless of where you are at in your spiritual journey we should always be pushing ourselves to “be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping  a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.” (1 Peter 3:15-16 NIV)

You can watch the sermon here.

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