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Using Teachable Moments As A Tool To Disciple Your Child
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- This takes a consistent seeking of Christ through the Holy Spirit residing in you.
- Actively looking for opportunities to live out Scripture in everyday life.
- I think we can agree that Scripture is paramount in our understanding of who Christ is and who He wants us to be.
- Scripture should be injected in any teachable moment to emphasize the fact that God’s Word is alive, and real, and should be applied to daily living.
- Also this will instill into your children to turn to God’s Word to answer life’s questions. And as a daily guidebook for real living.
- Can you over saturate your children with Scripture? NO
Teachable Moments:
- Grace: Using a reward when punishment is expected. (Example: Your child makes a bad grade, take them out for ice cream and discuss grace. They deserve discipline, however because of your love for them, they receive a reward.)
- Ephesians 2:8-9, “8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.”
- Compassion: Feed homeless in a shelter with your child to teach compassion and serving. .
- Jesus feeds the 4000: Matthew 15:32, “Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”
- Making wrongs right: Show your child a personal example of when corrected a mistake. (Example: I did not Pay full price for 3D movie, so I went to the manger and corrected my mistake and asked for forgiveness.)
- Prodigal Son: Luke 15:14-24: 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.‘ 20So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. 22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
- Prodigal Son: Luke 15:14-24: 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.‘ 20So he got up and went to his father.
- Defending the weak: When discussing the day they had in school ask if they see any bullies. Discuss the importance of helping those who get picked on.
- Psalm 82:3, “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
- Psalm 82:3, “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
- Honesty: Ask the question, “Why is truth important?” Because Truth is a person John 14:6.
- 2 Corinthians 8:19-21: (Titus sent to Corinth and the integrity they wanted to display to God and those around them.) 19What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. 20We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. 21For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.
- Examining your life: Use the dinner table to recap day and talk about potential kingdom work.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?”
- Selfishness: Sports – selfish play vs. unselfish play and how it hurts or helps the team.
- Philippians 2:3-11: 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! 9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Forgiveness: When I mess up, I say, “I am sorry for losing my patience. I was wrong. Will you please forgive me?
- Luke 6:37, “…Forgive and you will be forgiven.”
- Love: POSITIVE: How they correctly show love and NEGATIVE: How their actions or attitudes did not show love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails.
- Thankfulness: Did you thank your mother for cooking the meal? How can we SHOW mom we appreciate her cooking for us? (Cleaning our plate, taking our dishes to the sink etc…)
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: 16Be joyful always; 17pray continually; 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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