Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon

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Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul

By George Barna

Section ONE - The Importance of Children

Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple

Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership

Section Three - Families and Churches in Partnership

Working together, parents and their faith community can be a dynamic and potent force for the kingdom of God, leading to transformed lives among the young people in the church’s families.

Chapter 8 - Parents Must Manage Media Exposure

• Exposure to media is the MOST significant shaper of a person’s worldview

• Parents consciously fill the role of media gatekeeper

• Large doses of media consumption change the configuration and capacity of the brain - for the worse
  • Acceptance of parental authority drops

• Four M’s of Media Management
  • Monitor media use
  • Minimize media use
  • Moralize media content
  • Model media standards

Chapter 9 - Where is the Local Church?

• Churches, like most service-based organizations, are responsive to the expressed needs and desires of their user base. Face it, parents do not clamor for real discipleship experiences for their children, and churches have not done much to push back on that blind spot.

• The most effective churches provide:
  • Teach parents to understand and own the role of spiritual mentor to their child
  • Offer support and assistance needed for parents to fight the spiritual war that surrounds their children

• Good churches look to PARTNER with parents…

• A WORD about Christian schools…
  • Public schools are no friend to Christ
  • A Bible-based Christian school can be an enormous help to a parent who is striving to raise a spiritual champion and partnering with parents in seeking to defeat the prevailing culture that dismisses biblical truths and lifestyles

Chapter 10 - Fight for Your Children

• You must MODEL for them the life of a spiritual warrior…

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