3 Foundation Truths:
1. Parents are the primary spiritual drivers + influencers.
2. The church provides significant spiritual support
3. The pursuit of a Biblical worldview is paramount for the success of both
What COVID hasn’t changed about Parenting (Psalm 78)
1. Your calling as a parent (v. 1-6)
Your calling is composed of 2 aspects:
- pointing them to the ideal
- Navigating them through the reality
2. Your inadequacy as a parent (v. 7)
3. Your need for a tribe (v. 8)
When God set his people Israel in order, he placed each individual within a family, each family within a tribe, and in each tribe within a nation. No generation was excluded, no child left out, no older person put aside. Within each tribe were the components of family; they were community.
—Daphne Kirk
What has COVID changed about Parenting?
The environment, ie. “eco-system”
An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
—National Geographic
a. Micro-system: family, school, church
b. Meso-system: when micro-systems interact
c. Macro-system: overarching cultural context
Eco-system conditions parents need to create
1. Grace and Truth
2. Good, Bad and Ugly
3. Show and Tell
Its never too late: God’s grace is always available
