2015 Legacy Parenting Workshop Notes
I can think of no more
urgent need in our urban context than to raise up a generation of children who
love God and hate evil (Ps 97:10). The world and the dark side of the hip hop
culture stands against our children. (As I write this, gangs in LA have vowed
to kill 100 people in 100 days just 2 miles from my house). Our children’s very
own flesh wars against them. And Satan himself seeks to devour them. And what,
do you ask, is God’s appointed means of grace to help your children? That
answer is simple. It is you, God fearing parents. Yet the final outcome of childrearing
is more complicated than what you do or fail to do for your children. The final
outcome of our childrearing is the combined result of four influences.
- God—The Ultimate Influence
- Parents—The Ordained Means of Influence
- The World—The Unavoidable Influence
- The Child’s Heart—The Overlooked Influence
Below is a summary
explanation of each of these influences from my 2015 Legacy workshop on
parenting.
