How to Raise Kids Who Can Defend Their Faith

How can you prepare your children to have the kind of faith today that will answer tomorrow's challenges? We look at three keys: Principles, Practice and Prayer. A shorter episode tonight, but packed with a lot of really practical recommendations.

Last Updated February 7, 2020.

Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline,
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
for I am giving you good instruction.
Don’t abandon my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
he taught me and said:
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.

—Proverbs 4:1-4

Quick, how ready do you think your children are —not only to explain their faith—to actually defend the Christian message? Scripture teaches us the importance of being able to “make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you…” (1 Peter 3:15b).

In that passage, the Apostle Peter is speaking to all believers. It would naturally follow, then, that all believers ought to be working on honing their skill in this area. And it would further follow, then, that this includes believers of all ages.

As parents, we pray that our children would come to repentance and a knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 2:25) from a young age. We ought also to pray that they would be strengthened in their apologetic, their discipline in defending the truth of the Christian message. And as moms and dads, we need to be ready to equip them to do so.

The ideological challenges our kids face will undoubtably be different than the ones we faced growing up.

How can you prepare your children to have the kind of faith today that will answer tomorrow's challenges? In this podcast episode we will look at three keys: Principles, Practice and Prayer.

A shorter episode tonight, but packed with a lot of really practical recommendations.

A sampling of them:

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