Resources for the critically important and mostly ordinary work of leading your family to follow Jesus.
“Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.”
Joel 1:3
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FDP Concrete Conversations is the best way to get your family talking about what matters most!
YOU CAN DO IT!
We all feel discouraged about our parenting sometimes. Maybe especially about our spiritual leadership.
The book of Deuteronomy is Moses’ long speech of instruction and encouragement to a new generation of Israelites. In Deuteronomy 6:4-9 he gives them a command that Jesus called the greatest in the entire bible – love God with everything you’ve got!
Right after that, he tells them to diligently teach their kids to love and obey their God too . He commands the parents to teach the next generation about God all the time and everywhere they go.
At the end of his speech, chapter 30:11-14, Moses tells them that this is “NOT TOO HARD” for them! In the English Standard Version of verse 14 Moses says to this huge crowd (including lots of parents), “YOU CAN DO IT!”
Not that anyone of us is sufficient or perfect. We are all struggling and stumbling through this parenthood journey. In fact, if the salvation of our kids came down to the quality of our parenting, we’d never see another child saved. We are all imperfect parents.
But we have the help of a perfect God!
We plant seeds of the gospel. We water them often. But it is God who gives the growth!
And since God is with you, since he loves your kids, since he gives you his church to help you, since he equips you for obedience, since you can cast all your burdens onto him, since you can be forgiven for your mistakes – YOU CAN DO THIS!
