Beschreibung
For a parent who follows Jesus, the goal is often assumed: raise kids who obey God. In order to accomplish this, adults tell kids Bible stories about obedient or disobedient humans, often accompanied by promises on God’s behalf for how life will turn out if a kid, indeed, obeys.
But obedience is not the goal of Christian parenting. Trust is. As parents, our job is to help our kids discover that God can be trusted, which best happens when we really get to know God. Following Jesus, after all, is a relationship, not a list of rules to obey. What a kid needs is not a family that follows the formula, but a family that follows Jesus in everyday ways. They need space to explore the Bible, ask big questions, and even change their understanding of God and faith along the way.
Woven upends the traditional model for teaching a child the Christian faith, in which a religious worldview is built up brick by brick until a strong, inflexible wall is achieved. But when a child begins to ask questions, and a brick is removed, the whole wall far too often comes tumbling down. Woven encourages parents to use a different
approach. Using the image of a spider’s web, parents will look at what anchors their child’s faith—namely who God is—and how they can help their child get to know God. Then, they’ll consider the internal strands—habits and practices unique to their family—that give their child’s faith its own unique shape and structure. Anchor strands
and internal threads combine to form a web of faith that can flex and grow, be broken and repaired. This is the sort of faith that can stand up to the life their child will live, the questions they will surely have, and the challenges that will inevitably arise.
The past ten years have brought a rise in thoughtful Christian writing that both pushes against and moves beyond the more conservative sectors of our faith while holding tightly to Jesus. Yet, the parenting space has been largely behind this movement, leaving parents to fend for themselves as they try to reimagine being a family of faith. Woven is the resource parents have been waiting for.
Distributor: 316Europe
But obedience is not the goal of Christian parenting. Trust is. As parents, our job is to help our kids discover that God can be trusted, which best happens when we really get to know God. Following Jesus, after all, is a relationship, not a list of rules to obey. What a kid needs is not a family that follows the formula, but a family that follows Jesus in everyday ways. They need space to explore the Bible, ask big questions, and even change their understanding of God and faith along the way.
Woven upends the traditional model for teaching a child the Christian faith, in which a religious worldview is built up brick by brick until a strong, inflexible wall is achieved. But when a child begins to ask questions, and a brick is removed, the whole wall far too often comes tumbling down. Woven encourages parents to use a different
approach. Using the image of a spider’s web, parents will look at what anchors their child’s faith—namely who God is—and how they can help their child get to know God. Then, they’ll consider the internal strands—habits and practices unique to their family—that give their child’s faith its own unique shape and structure. Anchor strands
and internal threads combine to form a web of faith that can flex and grow, be broken and repaired. This is the sort of faith that can stand up to the life their child will live, the questions they will surely have, and the challenges that will inevitably arise.
The past ten years have brought a rise in thoughtful Christian writing that both pushes against and moves beyond the more conservative sectors of our faith while holding tightly to Jesus. Yet, the parenting space has been largely behind this movement, leaving parents to fend for themselves as they try to reimagine being a family of faith. Woven is the resource parents have been waiting for.
Distributor: 316Europe
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