The Journey: PCA Parent Podcast Dan Panetti

Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon
 
For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page.
 
Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul
By George Barna
 
Section ONE - The Importance of Children
Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple
Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership
 
Section Three - Families and Churches in Partnership
Working together, parents and their faith community can be a dynamic and potent force for the kingdom of God, leading to transformed lives among the young people in the church’s families.
 
Chapter 8 - Parents Must Manage Media Exposure
Exposure to media is the MOST significant shaper of a person’s worldview
Parents consciously fill the role of media gatekeeper
Large doses of media consumption change the configuration and capacity of the brain - for the worseAcceptance of parental authority drops

Four M’s of Media ManagementMonitor media use
Minimize media use
Moralize media content
Model media standards

 
Chapter 9 - Where is the Local Church?
Churches, like most service-based organizations, are responsive to the expressed needs and desires of their user base. Face it, parents do not clamor for real discipleship experiences for their children, and churches have not done much to push back on that blind spot.
 
The most effective churches provide:Teach parents to understand and own the role of spiritual mentor to their child
Offer support and assistance needed for parents to fight the spiritual war that surrounds their children

 
Good churches look to PARTNER with parents…
 
A WORD about Christian schools…Public schools are no friend to Christ
A Bible-based Christian school can be an enormous help to a parent who is striving to raise a spiritual champion and partnering with parents in seeking to defeat the prevailing culture that dismisses biblical truths and lifestyles

 
Chapter 10 - Fight for Your Children
You must MODEL for them the life of a spiritual warrior…
Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon
 
For video of this podcast, check out PCA’s YouTube page.
 
Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul
By George Barna
 
Section ONE - The Importance of Children
Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple
Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership
 
Section Two - The Four Practices of a Disciple
Making a life-defining commitment to be a disciple of Jesus
Accepting the biblical principles and commands that lead to becoming a disciple
Adopting the lifestyle of a disciple - obedience through application of beliefs
Inviting personal accountability and stability - through assessing what matters, reinforcing growth, and celebrating disciplehood
 
Chapter 4 - Disciple-Making Practice #1
Being a genuine disciple starts with obedience.
Why obey His teachings? Because He has provided them so that we may flourish in life.
Obedience therefore demands knowledge of Scripture
A different way of describing a disciple is someone who thinks like Jesus, which enables them to act like Jesus, producing someone who therefore lives like Jesus.
Spiritual Commitments:Serving Christ
Building a solid relationship
Investing personal resources
Implementing a solid plan
Using proven practices

 
Chapter 5 - Disciple-Making Practice #2
Biblically speaking, discipling a child is meant to be done by the child’s parents
How WORLDVIEW developsExperimental process
Imitating their parents

List of DIFFERENT/COMPETING worldviews…94% of adults have a syncretistic worldview - a blending of views from two or more of the comprehensive worldview systems

 
Chapter 6 - Disciple-Making Practice #3
An equally important undertaking is to promote the fledgling disciple fully, and passionately integrating those beliefs into a Christlike lifestyle.The expansive impact of those attributes is an example of why discipling someone is not a quick process.

Spiritual fruit begins with evidence of personal transformation
 
Chapter 7 - Disciple-Making Practice #4
Accountability system
Find a spiritual mentor
Must be taught the importance of consistent SELF-EVALUATION
Introduce young followers to the still, small voice of the Lord…
Measurement toolsWorldview Assessments Spiritual Gifts
Personal Strengths Personality Attributes
Spiritual Growth and Maturity

 
Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!
 

Guests: Holly Hamilton, Sandy Leydig, and Joel Gordon
 
Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul
By George Barna
 
Section ONE - The Importance of Children
Section TWO - The Four Principles of a Disciple
Section THREE - Families and Churches in Partnership
 
Section One - The Importance of Children
 
Chapter 1 - Making the Most of Your Life
Most young adults (54%) admit they often feel anxious, depressed, or unsafe
The Great Commitment is your promise to God that you will apply yourself to carrying out those challenges - with His authority, in His power, and for His glory
Parents have PRIMARY responsibility for the total well-being of their children - education, discipline, protection - but the most vital aspect of their development is spiritual formation.
 
Chapter 2 - Realigning Our Course Trajectory
Many embrace the label of “spiritual but not religious”
LESS than 1% of thirteen- and fourteen-year-old Americans have a biblical worldview
 
Parenting Tactics
Prioritizing spiritual development
Establishing inflexible Bible-based priorities and boundaries
Discipling each child
Influencing the choice of their friends
 
CONSISTENCY is the single, most important attribute…
 
Chapter 3 - Disciple-Making, Yes-But Why Disciple Children?
 
Who has the greatest impact/influence on our kids - the arts and entertainment media industry…Act of repetition
Peer acceptance

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

 
Guests: Len Munsil, President, and Dr. Jeffrey Green, VP of Academic Affairs and chief academic officer, at Arizona Christian University (ACU)
 
Transforming Culture with Truth
In Transforming Culture with Truth, Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil explains how the principles and values that built Western Civilization are under assault, and how a decaying and divided culture can be transformed through biblical truth. In this second edition, Munsil applies his incisive analysis to the most pressing cultural issues we face as a nation, and offers both hope and practical wisdom to the next generation of Christian leaders as they seek to advance God’s Kingdom in an increasingly hostile culture.
 
Worldview training and development address concepts of personal spiritual development as well as how our faith intersects with culture!
 
Recommended resource: Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind, and Soul by George Barna
 
Parents, don’t get discouraged in the training of your children - parenting is hard work…it’s a journey, a marathon, not a sprint…stay faithful and prayerful - and look to partner with solid Biblical institutions like PCA and ACU.
Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guests: Shannon Lichty, Trudy Reed, Jillian Bryant, PCA’s FPS State 1st and 2nd Place teams
 
Twenty-five years ago, Shannon Lichty brought the FPS program to PCA. Along with several others who have invested in making this program a resounding success, Shannon has invested her heart and energies into countless PCA students both in the classroom and through FPS. To learn more about PCA’s FPS program, check out this page on the PCA website. To learn more about FPS in general, check out: Future Problem Solving Program International
Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!

Guest: Giovanni Capriglione, Texas State Representative, District 98
 
Barna’s research has shown that nearly 3/4th (72%) of parents are worried about or concerned with AI’s impact on their children - but also that only 17% have actually taken steps to learn more about AI - so, basically parents are afraid and under-informed
 
One concern expressed about AI is the potential likelihood of decreased social connection, adding to the epidemic of loneliness and isolation this generation is already facing
 
AI is more complex than “if/then” commands - it is a system that can be trained to use data for specific purposes
 
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Rep. Capriglione’s bill (HB 2060) into law creating the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council that will study the use of AI in state government
 
AI collects data points - the average person has at least 100,000 data points collected on them - which means that AI can know you better than you know yourself! Digital privacy laws are being passed so that people can begin to see the information that has been collected about them.
 
The best way to protect yourself is to reduce the amount of information that AI can collect on you - be aware of this
 
Social media has one goal - to make sure you don’t put your phone down - the more you scroll, the more data that is being collected about you!
Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!