Navigating Worldly Challenges

“Empowering Families: Navigating the Challenges of Modern Life to Raise Christ-Centered Generations”

“To make Christ known to your children.” What if that truly became your “one thing?” What kind of difference would it make? Not just someday, but every day.

Here’s the way I sort of I look at it. I don’t think any of us would disagree with the notion that if 100 percent is full capacity on what our personal calendars and career obligations can accommodate, life is always trying to cram about 120 percent, 130 percent, 140 percent—a lot more than 100 percent anyway—into a space that can only hold so much, no matter how well we multitask or how little sleep we get. So, while you and I tend to consider ourselves the exception—that somehow the same rules of capacity don’t apply to us, with our clever and capable ways of managing things—guess what? They do. So, every day, like clockwork, between our varied assortment of have-to-do’s and want-to-do’s, we each top out by necessity at our maximum 100 percent. And whatever else we intended to include or to swap out for something else, all those extra things get stuck off to the side somewhere, undone, untouched, even if we’ve displaced them with lesser things. That’s just the way it is.

And that’s why knowing our “one thing” is so important. Because when we’re clear about what we absolutely do not want to leave this earth without doing, based on what God has shown us through His Word and His Spirit, we’re going to make dead sure few days pass us by when that “one thing” doesn’t factor somehow, to some degree, into our 100 percent. We’ll see to that.

But not without a plan, we won’t. No matter how much we say we want it.

Twenty-six years ago, my wife and I took the time to discuss our family’s spiritual health. It was like my weight – in control but could use some tightening. We were motivated and focused on the long race ahead. Our children’s spiritual maturity was our focus, and the target was clear – A Christ Centered home and family life. Key declarations would include a home culture that is God-honoring, Christ- centered, and Missional in Scope (Obedient to the Great Commission). Prayer would be our lifeblood. Worship would be our community and church and at home. Life on Life discipleship would be our equipping and accountability. It was time to arise and declare anew our spiritual convictions.

We saw a world spinning out of control. Motivated by worldly desires and focused on artificial glories or victories. We noticed that our children would face a different world than the one we grew up in. Twenty-six years ago, we could have never predicted today’s reality that only 14% of 18-34 years of age attend any church of any kind. 75% of children leaving the church after high school. Less than 10% of families praying and studying God’s word together. A nation where only 6% of adults declare to have a biblical worldview – a decline of 93% over the past two generations. How we process truth and reality would not be from a biblical standard but a secular one.

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