Parenting into the deep: Dan on sending kids out and Jesus reaching deeper
- How do you parent kids for a world that will deepen rather than flip their faith?
One host voices his fear of becoming a father who can't save his kids from the world. Dan answers at length: protect their innocence while age-appropriately acknowledging the wider world, surround it all with prayer, and build character like Noah's children, who stayed on the boat while none of their friends lived like them. Another host shares witnessing the 'spiritual bubble' pop on over-sheltered kids, and a third argues the church fails by not being in the business of deepening — meeting complicated people like Joseph of Arimathea's followers and the women funding Jesus' ministry rather than calling balls and strikes from a distance.
More on Discipleship
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Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
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What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
From No. 545 · By Invitation Only