The Gospel-Centered Parent (The Gospel-Centered Life)
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Our children are precious to us, so naturally we want to protect them and guarantee their safety and happiness. We want to get it right, so our children will be all right. But we live in a broken world where things don’t always (or never?) go as planned. Children make mistakes and, if they are honest, parents know they make mistakes too. So it’s easy for parents to live in fear, regret, confusion, and sometime hopelessness about parenting and the children they love. Is there a better way? Can you learn to live by faith, to trust the God who made you and your children with their past, present, and future? How can Christian parents live by faith as they parent their children?
These are questions that are best answered in community. Rose Marie Miller is a mother and grandmother who is familiar with being afraid and also the power of the gospel to free you from it. She is a wise and experienced guide for your small group as you tackle these issues by looking at what God has to say about his love, forgiveness, and care for you and your child.
This 9-session small group resource will help Christian parents apply the gospel of Jesus Christ to their families. Each lesson looks at parenting through the lens of God’s grace for sinners (parents and children) and gives parents a gospel-center to their parenting. Parents will learn how to live out the biblical principles of faith, repentance, and faithfulness to their calling as Christian parents with their children. Each lesson is self-contained, featuring clear teaching from biblical Scripture, and requires no extra work outside of the group setting. The self-explanatory Leader’s Guide at the back of the book helps small group leaders with discussion questions and background material that clearly explain and apply the gospel truths from each lesson.
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- Helps parents apply the gospel of Jesus Christ to their families
- Teaches parents how to live out the biblical principles of faith, repentance, and faithfulness
- Provides a self-explanatory Leader’s Guide with discussion questions and background material
- About This Study
- Gospel Overview
- Lesson 1– Trusting God to Build Your Family
- Lesson 2– The Parent as the Chief Repenter
- Lesson 3– Teaching Your Child “On the Way”
- Lesson 4– Discipline by Faith, Not Frustration
- Lesson 5– Parenting Through Prayer
- Lesson 6– When Your Child Disappoints You
- Lesson 7– Adventures in Kingdom Work
- Lesson 8– Walking with Your Family Through Suffering
- Lesson 9– Spiritual Warfare and Your Family
- Lesson 10–Perseverance and Hope
- Conclusion: Fifteen Reasons to Train Your Children in the Gospel of Grace
- Leader's Notes
The Gospel-Centered Parent is a resource to help you see your parenting in light of God’s good news! Practical yet theological, simple yet deeply biblical, this text will provide helpful perspective for many parents.
—Timothy Paul Jones, C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Family Ministry at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author of Family Ministry Field Guide
The Gospel-Centered Parent is an invaluable gift to the church. This ten-week group study will give parents the hope and courage they need as they learn how to give the gospel to their children and to themselves. The weekly lessons are easy to read and applicable to everyday life. The questions at the end of each lesson are thought provoking and will be helpful in creating good discussions. But what I love the most about this study was that when I was finished I found myself more in love with Christ. The gospel is good news for every single part of our lives.
—Jessica Thompson, Coauthor of Give Them Grace
The Gospel-Centered Parent small group study is the best small group resource I’ve seen for parents. It is much more than a parenting course; it is parent discipleship at its best. Buy this resource for your small group and watch worry and anxiety in the lives of your parents trying to find the right parenting technique be replaced with faith in God and a renewed trust in the life-transforming gospel.
—Marty Machowski, Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church, Glen Mills, PA; author of Long Story Short, Gospel Story for Kids curriculum, and the upcoming The Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever New