Description
| Episode | Date |
| Intentional Fatherhood with Jon Tyson 00 ... | Apr 04, 2022 |
| Family Discipleship Milestones 00:39:57 ... | Mar 28, 2022 |
| Habits of the Household with Justin Whit ... | Mar 21, 2022 |
| Family Discipleship Moments 00:33:02 ... | Mar 14, 2022 |
Full Answer
What does family discipleship have to look like?
He debunks common misconceptions about what family discipleship has to look like, highlights the importance of cultivating a culture of joy and fun in the home, and offers parents a simple framework for intentionally training their kids to view their lives through the lens of the gospel.
Is family discipleship the greatest privilege imaginable?
Anytime somebody has described what we're writing about in Family Discipleship in very simple terms like Billy Graham does where he calls it “the greatest privilege imaginable”, to me that helps, again, bolster the definition that we use of important and mostly ordinary.
What is your mission statement for family discipleship?
And again, this is similar to the moments idea of fostering a shared language and creating a family discipleship culture within your home. Our mission statement is To know God, to make him known, and to honor him in all that we do. That also serves as a litmus test for what we're going to do.
Why Family Discipleship?
Host Adam Griffin introduces the Family Discipleship Podcast. Adam talks about the critically important and mostly ordinary work of leading your family spiritually. There are many parenting podcasts, but this one is going to focus specifically on Christian leadership issues at home.
Episode Notes
Host Adam Griffin introduces the Family Discipleship Podcast. Adam talks about the critically important and mostly ordinary work of leading your family spiritually. There are many parenting podcasts, but this one is going to focus specifically on Christian leadership issues at home.
How to Do Family Discipleship
In this episode, Adam Griffin, co-author of Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home through Time, Moments, and Milestones, discusses what it looks like for parents to prioritize the important but mostly ordinary spiritual leadership of their family.
Family Discipleship
Here is a book written for parents that focuses not on their inability, but on God’s ability to help raise their children in the faith through a guided framework focusing on time, moments, and milestones.
1:25 - What Is Family Discipleship?
Matt Tully Adam, thank you so much for joining me on The Crossway Podcast today.
1:59 - Discipling through the Ordinary
Matt Tully That's such a helpful, concise definition. I think most of us would probably have an idea of why you're saying important, and we'll get into some of that more a little bit later, but the phrase that sticks out to me immediately is mostly ordinary. I wonder if you could unpack that a little bit?
4:31 - What Family Discipleship Is Not
Matt Tully I think that is so true that oftentimes when it comes to this topic—and probably many other topics—we have a preconceived idea that can maybe discourage us from doing it. But sometimes that preconceived idea isn't actually correct.
8:44 - Indoctrinating Our Kids
Matt Tully I want to jump back to something you said about indoctrination, how that has kind of become a bad word in our culture today, but actually that is what we're called to do as parents.
12:04 - Family Discipleship with Time
Matt Tully In your book you put forward a framework, I think is what you call it, for family discipleship built around three key things: time, moments, and milestones. Could you just briefly summarize each one, and let's just start with the first one: time. What do you mean by that word?
