Modeling, Learning, and Your Children
Jan.29, 2011 in
Podcast Episodes
Big C, one of our long-time listeners and friends of the podcast, submitted an idea for a show with a couple of questions relating to how we teach our children. Because Ray and Steve both live life with their families outside of institutional religion, is it possible that their children are getting a very limited, and perhaps unbalanced, source of teaching?
After playing a portion of an audio clip clarifying Big C’s question, Ray and Steve discuss the way that they view raising children outside of an organized “religion”, yet while modeling a faith-filled life.
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February 13th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
hey guys! i am the gf that falcons fan cliff from fb wall mentioned earlier who is now listening to your podcast. im a southern baptist pk who was home schooled so i enjoyed the pc on this topic. despite my fathers aforementioned occupation we were raised in a moderatly leaning home and were home schooled bc my sibling were not getting the attention that they needed to do well. like your experience, it was a wonderful journey shared by our family.i am writing though, in response to one of your wives who was raised in church but could not recite a bible story. i taught Bible at a Christian school and saw the opposite. i gave a quiz asking students what it takes to be saved, over 90 % said something along the lines of asking Jesus into your heart and most even quoted scriptures. however when i asked are you a Christian over 75% percent said no. despite growing up in a Christian school and a Christian home and knowing all the “right” answers, there was a disconnect somewhere. a diff bw a head knowledge and a heart knowledge.since you guys did not discuss the the private school possibilty on this particular pc i just wanted to share my experiences.i think there is a fine balancing act that parents play when teaching kids bw allowing them room to grow and learn on their own and lovinly shaping their hearts and lives. i spoke to my mother recently about this and she said, “we always tried to model Christ for you kids and then teach you not what to think, but how to think.” im ever so thankful that they did!
oh! and btw i am no longer attending an sbc church and neither are my two siblings. when i told them what you said about the statement made by the sbc recently they laughed. this is probably a very true assesment but i assure you we are all still in “the faith” but are just choosing to express it in other ways. this could be a topic of discussion though–the former denominations of our generation and the responses that these denominations are having to our choice of expressing our faith in other means. thanks for the discussion–jayna