I highly recommend this book to all parents. Maybe you and your spouse or a friend- or a group of friends could read through this together? Maybe your children/youth pastor could go through this with the parents?
I know as a parent I want my children (no matter their age) to draw their inner life and worth from Jesus.
An excerpt:
"Jesus has promised to put a well inside of us, and from that inner well life will flow. Our simple task is to remember to drink from that well instead of from all the wells that promise to fill us but never can. Being good athletically, having lots of friends, being in a relationship with the opposite sex, achieving good grades, or being captain of the church quiz team cannot fill our children. We need the well on the inside and so do our children. We need to allow ourselves to be filled daily, minute by minute, with the Spirit, and so do our children. (To me, Starla, this is intimacy with Christ.)
Wouldn't you like to help your children lean how to recognize their thirst for Jesus Christ? Wouldn't you like to help them find that Jesus is the only one who can give them life, from the inside?"
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