Pastor Anthony talks about practical things for parents to consider as well as practical ways to disciple your kids to love Jesus. Some of you might not have children but this is an awesome opportunity to disciple children you know.

 

10 Practical Things for New Parents To Consider (and “Old Parents” who want to get back on track)

1.Put God First And Your Spouse Second

2.Don’t Hole-Yourself-Up In The House [Gen 2:18]

3.Don’t Abandon Community [Heb 10:25]

4.Don’t Stop Doing Things With Your Friends

5.Build Relationships With Older Parents

6.Go Out On Dates Often and Get Away

7.Get Baby Sitters

8.Have Sacred Space

9.Go Do Things On Your Own.

10.Take Turns With Your Spouse.

 

7 Practical Ways To Disciple Your Kids To Love Jesus

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1. Make A Declaration Over Your Household

Joshua 24:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

2.Model Your Walk With Christ In Front Of Your Kids

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

3. Read The Bible To And With Your Kids From An Early Age

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

4. Pray Over Them, With Them, And Expect Them To Pray

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

5. Take Them To Church

Hebrews 10:24-25

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 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.

6. Teach Them To Tithe

Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

7. Talk To Them

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.