{"id":29292,"date":"2023-05-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/?p=29292"},"modified":"2023-05-15T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:09:30","slug":"how-can-you-share-the-gospel-with-little-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/daily-devotions\/how-can-you-share-the-gospel-with-little-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you share the gospel with little kids?\u00a0","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s devo is an excerpt from Grace Driscoll and Ashley Chase\u2019s new book Flourish: A Ten Day Devotional for Moms<\/em>. To get a free PDF copy, click HERE<\/a> and to get a physical copy for your gift of any amount during the month of May, click HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026but Jesus said, \u2018Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.\u2019\u201d -Matthew 19:14<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all have different experiences with Christianity growing up that shape \u2013 whether we know it or not \u2013 how we portray faith in Jesus to our kids. I hear many stories of moms from religious households who don\u2019t want to \u201cimpose\u201d beliefs on their kids. Others didn\u2019t grow up with Christian parents, so they never had anyone share the gospel with them when they were young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what background you come from, God will equip you to raise and disciple your own children by His grace. It is ultimately the parents\u2019 duty to train a child in the way they should go. School, church, and friends can all help point them in the right direction, but as parents, we are the spiritual head over our children and the caregivers for their souls by the wisdom the Holy Spirit gives us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we truly believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and is preparing a place for us in Heaven to spend eternity with Him, we should be sharing the Good News with our kids often from a young age so that they grow to love Him as we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when they\u2019re so little, they can still sense the Holy Spirit and develop a love for the Lord. They don\u2019t have to fully understand theology in order to have a regenerate heart and experience the love that the Lord has for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your kids will learn things from various places that don\u2019t align with the Bible, so have lots of open discussions so they want to talk to you when something seems \u201coff\u201d. For example, if you are watching a tv show together and something ungodly happens, stop and discuss why you disagree with it and let them ask questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teach them how<\/strong> to think and not just what<\/strong> to think, so they can navigate the world they live in. These are just some principles we tried to follow so that our kids would develop their own faiths before leaving our house and heading out into the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We allowed them to wrestle, modeled behavior for them, and to this day they all love serving the church and pursuing the Lord. We made many mistakes, but we\u2019re thankful for God\u2019s grace to ultimately direct our kids in His path. Remember that before they are your kids, they are His kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work on having age-appropriate conversations with your kids about things they might see on TV or from friends that aren\u2019t how Jesus would want us to act, showing them how to think and not just what to think. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text DEVOS to 99383 to be woken up with bold, unapologetic Bible teaching straight to your phone Monday-Friday bright and early. Click here<\/a> to download a free Elijah study guide and find the sermons that accompany these Devos .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s devo is an excerpt from Grace Driscoll and Ashley Chase\u2019s new book Flourish: A Ten Day Devotional for Moms. To get a free PDF copy, click HERE and to get a physical copy for your gift of any amount during the month of May, click HERE. \u201c\u2026but Jesus said, \u2018Let the little children come to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":10,"featured_media":29293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"13885,17652,17904,17939,16456,17957","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"ministries":[],"topics":[214,199],"series":[530],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29297,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions\/29297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"ministries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ministries?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}