Grow at Home: A Beginner's Guide to Family Discipleship
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Family discipleship is when parents help their children become disciples of Jesus Christ in the home through reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, and doing missions together. It starts in our marriages, by loving our spouse with the love of Christ. It happens by teaching, loving, and sharing our faith with our children. Grow at Home unpacks the role of discipleship in shaping children’s lives with a practical guide to family discipleship. When we bring the gospel back into the home, it will spread through our neighborhoods and into the communities where we live.
Winfield Bevins
Winfield Bevins is the Director of Church Planting at Asbury Theological Seminary. He frequently speaks at conferences on a variety of topics and is a regular adjunct professor at several seminaries. As an author, one of his passions is to help others connect to the roots of the Christian faith for spiritual formation and mission. His Zondervan books include Ever Ancient Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation and Marks of a Movement: What the Church Today Can Learn from the Wesleyan Revival. He and his wife Kay have three beautiful girls Elizabeth, Anna Belle, and Caroline and live in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky. You can find out more about him at his websitewww.winfieldbevins.com.
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Chapter 1
A Parent’s Responsibility
Consider family religion not merely as a duty imposed by authority, but as your greatest privilege granted by divine grace.
—Dr. Martyn-Lloyd Jones
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that traditional family life has changed over the last decade in North America. All you have to do is look around your city, neighborhood, or school, or simply turn on the television to see how family life has changed. Leave It to Beaver has been replaced with television shows like Modern Family, which promotes alternative views of family life. Statistics show that divorce rates and teen violence have been skyrocketing for the past decade in North America and England.¹
There are obvious cultural influences that have had a significant effect on families, such as technology, television, and media. However, we can’t blame it all on the culture. Christians are responsible for much of the problem as well. One of the primary reasons is that we have taken an individualistic approach to faith and this has not emphasized the corporate nature of Christianity. The result is that we have produced a generation of consumeristic, and not radically committed, disciples of Jesus