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Partnering with Parents for Teenage Discipleship.
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What is God’s responsibility?
What is my responsibility? What is the Church’s responsibility ?
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God’s Role in Spiritual Growth & discipleship!
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1 Corinthians 3:5-7 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
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Just as birth, growth and development, and death are primary components of physical life, so, too, the spiritual life features significant lifecycle events. We are born to new life, we grow and develop in our spiritual lives, and one day we will be completely transformed into Christ’s likeness.
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Or, to put it another way, we have been made holy, we are being made holy, and one day we shall be made completely holy. Today, we live in the “already, but not yet.” The exciting truth is that God plays a significant role in each phase of our spiritual lives.
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What is my responsibility?
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How can we summarize the way of life of a disciple of Christ
How can we summarize the way of life of a disciple of Christ? Perhaps like this: God wants His children to show forth His character in their behavior here on earth. Simply put, God wants His children to be like Him.
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EPHESIANS 5:1 Be imitators of God,
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1.) The first responsibility of the disciple of Christ is to feed on the Word of God--meditating on it daily and receiving it into his heart with a desire to obey it.
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2.) The second responsibility is to pray to God, our Father who is in heaven. Whoever wants to grow in the relationship he has with God will want to talk to Him often. For the disciple of Christ, prayer is talking to God, as you would talk to your best friend.
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3.) The third responsibility is to fellowship with others who believe and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
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"Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day [of Christ's return] approaching." (Heb. 10:24,25)
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4.) The forth responsibility of Christ's disciples is to be His witnesses.
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What is the Church’s responsibility ?
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"Make disciples" implies intentionality and process
"Make disciples" implies intentionality and process. Disciple-making doesn't just happen because a church exists and people show up.
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Parents, what’s your greatest desire for your teenager when he/she graduates from High School?
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“That they attend a good college,” and “That they would have a strong faith in Jesus.”
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The Tragedy & The Reality
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How many teenagers who attend church/youth group keep their faith after high school? There have been a ton of studies that have tried to answer that question.
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The more conservative studies claim 64% will walk away from the Christian faith while the more extreme surveys say it’s an alarming 94%.
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The Best Solution: PARENTS
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Time and time again, parents are always listed as the number one influence on their children.
Parents are indeed the primary influence in their teenager’s life… UNLESS the parents choose to distance themselves or push their son/daughter away.
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As the National Study on Youth and Religion concluded, “We get what we are.”
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If we take our kids to church on Sunday and then are over-scheduled and live as if our worth comes from work, school, and sports, then how are we teaching our kids to find their identity through Christ?
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If we talk about Grace on Sunday mornings but don’t show any during the week when we mess up or when our kids let us down, then aren’t we teaching them that Grace is a good idea but it doesn’t “work in the real world?”
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BUT, if Christian parents prayerfully and faithful set Christ at the center of their homes and guard their time (which means mom, dad, and children will all have to say “No” to some good and fun things they’ll want to do!),
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and talk together about Scripture and life and pray together – then the family will be a driving force the world could not compete against!
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Discipleship is the Family’s Responsibility.
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Deuteronomy 6:4-7
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4 “Listen, O Israel. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone
4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.
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And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.
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7 Repeat them again and again to your children
7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
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Moses doesn’t tell parents to send their kids to the priests to be taught about the LORD, he tells parents to teach their kids about God.
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One of the things I love about this passage is that it doesn’t simply say, “Have a family Bible Study!”
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Parents are commanded to both formally and informally instruct their children in the Word of God.
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Youth Pastors don’t replace parents.
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Youth Pastors come alongside parents, and help them
Youth Pastors come alongside parents, and help them. Youth Pastors are another voice to repeat what’s already been taught at home.
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Youth Ministry is the Church’s Ministry.
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Joshua 24:15 Joshua famously declared, “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,
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While Joshua was faithful to the LORD and the other Elders were also faithful, a generation soon grew up who had never been taught about the LORD or what He had done for Israel.
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Teenagers today need Elders (not formal Elders in the church, but men and women who are older and wiser and have really lived life) to invest in them and to share their wisdom.
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Teenagers should not be allowed to be completely age-segregated from other generations.
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Churches and Parents need to work together.
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Forging a Partnership Between the Local Church and Parents for Parent-Teen Discipleship
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Healthy and biblical Youth Ministry doesn’t seek to build teenage disciples… it seeks to build disciples!
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Youth Ministry MUST re-focus on partnering with parents for discipling teenager to life-long faith.
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The church should also serve as a “surrogate family” for those teens whose parents are either not Christians or are neglecting their responsibility to lead in their spiritual duties at home.
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Effective Communication.
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Fun and Harmless Teenage Slang
Bruh–A casual nickname for “bro” Fam–Their closest friends GOAT–Acronym for “Greatest of all time!”
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Teen Slang Terms to Keep an Eye on
Bae–Short for “baby.” a significant other such as a girlfriend or boyfriend. Throw shade–To give someone a nasty look or say something unpleasant about them.
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Warning Flags Thirsty–Being desperate for something CU46–Acronym for “See you for sex” 9–Short for “A parent is watching!”
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We need to communicate in such a way that teenagers will actually hear what we’re trying to say.
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Helping Parents Understand the Formative Influences on their Teenager
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Culture Shift: From Modern to Postmodern
Parental Influence & Other Influences on Your Teen. Not a Kid, Not Yet an Adult (Adolescent Development) Culture Shift: From Modern to Postmodern
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What This Means For Us: First, this means that ministry to children & youth is everyone’s responsibility.
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Second, we become a “surrogate family” for those whose parents are either unbelievers or negligent in discipleship.
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Third, each student should have five adults investing (formally or informally) in him/her. Get to know two students’ names and ask them how you can be praying for them… then follow up with them.
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Sure, the student will probably say, “Uh, I have a test on Wednesday
Sure, the student will probably say, “Uh, I have a test on Wednesday.” Well… pray for them to do well on their test, and then find him/her on Sunday and ask how the test went and assure him/her that you prayed.
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Fourth, provide more opportunities for parents to be equipped and supported to lead in discipleship at home. It’s one thing to know you should disciple your kids, but it’s another thing to know how to do that.
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