Guiding Your Child’s Spiritual Development

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Influence On Teens Encouragement

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George Barna

Friends Ministers Teachers Siblings Mothers Fathers

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Friends Ministers Teachers Siblings Mothers Fathers

Influence On Teens Influence

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If Families Matter Most, Where Do Schools Come In

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Family variables93.4%

• Comparing educational attainment, family exerted 19 times greater impact than school input and 24 times greater impact than neighborhood variables.

• In total, family accounted for 9 to 11 times as much variation as school inputs and neighborhood variables combined.

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Caroline Hoxby

Youth Asset Builders

• Family Support• Parents as Social Resources• Parent Communication• Parent Involvement in Schooling• Parental Standards• Parental Discipline• Parental Monitoring• Time at Home

7Search Institute

Influential Resources

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George Barna

Leading Teens To Christ

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George Barna

What Parents Want for their

KidsAll Parents• Happiness• Good Finances• Good Families• Good Citizens

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Parenting with Kingdom Purpose

Christian Parents• Christians• Attend Church• Morality

Kingdom Parents• The Kingdom as a Priority• Families Dedicated to the Kingdom• Reach the Ends of the Earth

Do you want your teens’ level of Christian (Kingdom) commitment to be the same as yours?What would it mean for California if the next generation had only our level of commitment?

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Parenting with Kingdom Purpose

What Parents Want for their

Kids

Two Families

EliWhy, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than Me,… 1 Samuel 2:29 (HCSB)

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JoshuaChoose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15 (NASB)

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5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

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Deuteronomy 6:5

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6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when

you get up. (HCSB)

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

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Deuteronomy 6:6-7

6 First, get these words into yourselves.

7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when

you get up. (HCSB)

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Deuteronomy 6:6-7

6 First, get these words into yourselves.

7 Then get them into your children.

Parents & Faith

• Only 6% of teens consider their religious beliefs very different from their mothers.

• Only 11% consider their faith different from their fathers.

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Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

(HCSB)

Deuteronomy 6:7

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National Longitudinal Study

#1 Factor in Keeping Teens away from “At Risk” Behavior

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National Longitudinal Study

Four Optimal Times for Connection

DinnerAfter SchoolBed TimeMorning

Sit in your HouseWalk by the WayLie DownRise Up

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8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.

9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

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Deuteronomy 6:8-9

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Luke 2:52

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Teens Keep Parents’ Faith

When Parents…

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Teens Keep Parents’ Faith

When Parents…

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Family Devotions

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Christian Parents’ Commitment

3  Things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us.

4  We must not hide them from their  children, but must tell a future  generation the praises of the LORD,

His might, and the wonderful works He has performed.

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Christian Parents’ Commitment

5  He established a  testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children

6  so that a future generation—children yet to be born—might know.They were to rise and tell their

children

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Christian Parents’ Commitment

7 so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep His commandments.

8  Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit

was not faithful to God.Psalms 78:3-8 (HCSB)

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