This should influence your parenting decisions: Two-thirds of Americans claim to be Christians, but only four percent of all adults hold a biblical worldview according to the recent Barna studies. So what does it mean when someone says they are a Christian today? It certainly doesn’t mean there’s like-mindedness. It doesn’t mean we automatically trust them, and it doesn’t mean their children are safe influences for your children. This is true even in the church you go to.

We aren’t to have fear, but instead to trust God, but can He trust you? Trust you to disciple his children in the ways they should go? God is sovereign but we have an awesome responsibility in equipping our children which frankly, in reflection of these stats is going to have to look much different than what most Christians are doing around you.

Main Points From This Episode:

• The church you grew up in, is not the church your children are being raised in as nominal christianity has risen significantly.
• The stats get worse for parents of pre-teens dropping to 2% holding a biblical worldview. Could it be that as children get older they start leading their parents away from a biblical worldview?
• Only 1% of the teenagers in America hold a biblical worldview.
• According to the Barna study only 37% of Christian pastors hold a biblical worldview.
• It’s more important than ever to have boundaries and protect your children. To not assume people are a good influence.
• Anyone your children look up to has influence, are those people you want to influence your children? Do you really know? This includes leaders at church, extended family and…
• It takes far more intentionality today if you want to see Godly fruit in your legacy.
• Syncretism is on the rise and 92% of Americans have fallen for it’s direction which is mixing elements of various beliefs to fit their view of how God should be.

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Scriptures From This Episode:

– Hebrews 10:25 – “not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.“

– Titus 2:1-5 – “But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.“

– Jeremiah 17:7-8 – ““Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”“

– 2 Timothy 4:3-4 – “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.“

– John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.“

– Deuteronomy 4:2 – “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.“

– Revelation 22:18 – “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.“

 

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