EP 11 Integrating the Spiritual- Part 3: Parenting and Family

The Iron Women

• Connection Card Question
• Deanna: 27 years of parenting (2 kids: 1 girl, 1 boy)
• Lauren: 12 years of parenting (3 kids: all boys)
• What was the biggest shift in your parenting? What would you tell yourself 10 years ago based on what you know now?
• Parenting from Biblical principles vs legalism (“the do’s and don'ts”)
• Raising “ministry kids” vs kids with a ministry heart
• Submission to authority vs rules make you spiritual
• Full time step mom experience
• Kids are all different, raising them differently
• Becoming a Christian and a mom at the same time
• Discipling your kids vs raising them
• Stewarding your kids as a gift from the Lord
• What is your goal for your kids?
• Looking at your kids (if they are saved) as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, children of God
• Presenting the Gospel to your children
• American Dream fueled parenting vs Gospel fueled parenting
• Establishing the authority of Scripture in your home
• Spiritual conversations with your kids, not just disciplinary conversations
• God knows your heart as a parent
• Heart parenting vs behavior parenting
• Your faithfulness or faithlessness can rub off on your kids
• Dealing with shame, guilt and failure in parenting
• The Father is faithful and good to your kids even when you are not
• Losing your temper with your kids
• Asking for forgiveness from your kids
• Teaching your kids that your failures as a parent do not reflect God, He is the best and perfect Father for them
• Humility with your kids
• Your relationship with God will directly impact your relationships with your kids
• Asking God to help you, giving Him the responsibility of raising your kids through you
• Let expectations go
• Be the same person in the home that you are outside of it
• Don’t fake your spirituality
• Kids aren’t stupid
• Be honest with your kids
• Tell your kids your salvation testimony and spiritual growth looks like
• The goal: that your kids will love God and to love others
• The “busy” parents create for their kids in hopes of having it “all”
• Prioritizing the spiritual in your families schedule
• If you must be “busy”, be busy serving and loving the Lord and His people with your kids
• The world’s constant pull of spending all of our money and time on ourselves and the pleasures this life has to offer our families
• Pray real prayers with your kids
• Peer pressure….from other parents
• Be gracious with other parents in their parenting styles
• Parents: know your spiritual gifts, serve the Lord WITH your kids
• Kids are not a bible reason to stop serving the Lord
• Your secret spiritual disciplines do not go unnoticed by your kids
• KIDS LISTEN UP
• Parents are human beings just trying to do their best, cut them some slack
• The shift of realizing your parents are human like you
• When your kids are totally different from each other, how to discipline them differently
• “You don’t want fair”
• Learning your kids in real time, they don’t come with care instructions
• God made each kid as an individual to glorify Him
• The First and Second Commandments
• Your kids are God’s first
• Making big life decisions for your kids with spiritual motives
• Teaching your kids to love God and to be loved by Him
• Kids identify themselves by what their parents prioritize
• Kids, your parents have to answer for how they are choosing to raise your in front of God one day, give them some grace
• Fun Cup Question!

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