Description:
Christianity Today Book Award--Marriage and Family
Half of Christian high school students walk away from their faith after graduation. But parental involvement is the most influential predictor of achild's spirituality throughout their lives. How do we parent our kids in ways that lead to lasting faith?
Sarah Cowan Johnson unpacks how parents can have an active discipleship role in forming their children's faith, with age-appropriate insights and strategies for different developmental stages. She shows how we can identify God moments, facilitate spiritual encounters, clarify emerging beliefs, and encourage new faith habits in our children.
Filled with exercises and activitiesfor families to do together, this handbook is an essential resource for discipling children with confidence and creativity.
Brief description:
Sarah Cowan Johnson is a ministry trainer, consultant, and coach who works with churches, pastors, and ministry leaders across the United States. She served with the Evangelical Covenant Church as the executive pastor for Sanctuary Church in Providence, Rhode Island, and previously was a staff trainer and an area director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Sarah is the founder of Family Discipleship Labs, which equips churches to partner with parents, and the host of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast from InterVarsity Press. She and her husband live in Providence with their family.
Review Quotes:
"We would have loved to have Teach Your Children Well when we were rearing our own children. This is a practical book, a boots-on-the-ground book, from a mother who has practiced what she is writing about. Sarah is funny, wise, thoughtful, and great with diagrams that provide a path forward in parenting the child you have. This is not about making the 'ideal Christian child.' It is about how you receive the child you were given, so you can partner with God in growing, training, and celebrating this child. If you are looking for a theologically sound and developmentally savvy resource in your parenting, Teach Your Children Well is for you."
Doug and Adele Calhoun, coauthors of Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram