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Parenting 101 Part 2

2. Breathe Spiritual L.I.F.E. into our Children

3. Breathe L.I.F.E.
Breathe Love
“Children learn about God’s love at church but they experience through their parents.”

4. Breathe L.I.F.E.
Breathe Love
Breathe Image
They need to take in God’s image (behavior, attitude, etc.)

5. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:4

6. Breathe Image
Lead by Godly Example

7. Establish Godly traditions
Breathe Image
Lead by Godly Example
Establish Godly traditions
Daily
Rules, discipline
Speaking truth in love
Affirm spiritual gifts
Encourage devotion
Cycle
Worship
Camps / rallies
Christmas / Thanksgiving
Unique family traditions

8. We need to establish spiritual habits and traditions that celebrate and constantly remind children that we are God’s people.

9. Breathe Forgiveness Breathe L.I.F.E. Breathe Love Breathe Image
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. – Col. 3:13

10. Practical Training Includes:
Saying
Letting
Modelling
Listening
Discussing
Processing

11. Process of Forgiveness
Talking it out
Accepting responsibility
Asking for forgiveness
Offering forgiveness
Receiving forgiveness
Reconciliation
Renewal

12. ENTHUSIASM FORGIVENESS IDENTITY LOVE

13. Breathe Enthusiasm Breathe L.I.F.E. Enthusiasm = “Ethnos” = In God
Breathe Love
Breathe Image
Breathe Forgiveness
Breathe Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm = “Ethnos” = In God

14. Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
- Neh. 8:10

15. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
- Phil. 4:4

16. Model enthusiastic faith and service
Breathe Enthusiasm
Model enthusiastic faith and service

17. Encourage Christian friendship
Breathe Enthusiasm
Model enthusiastic faith and service
Encourage Christian friendship

18. Include them in ministry
Breathe Enthusiasm
Model enthusiastic faith and service
Encourage Christian friendship
Include them in ministry

19. A child who equates spirituality with joy will be inoculated against the counterfeit happiness promised by the sinful pleasures of this world.

20. “As parents we want to try to pass on the love, identity, forgiveness, and enthusiasm of God to our children so they can internalize it for themselves and then share it with others.” - William Gaultierre