Session 5: Connect to a Bigger Story
SESSION 5 SUMMARY
If you were to ask parents which priorities matter most when it comes to their kids, their responses would fall into three major categories:
Smarter decisions
Stronger relationships
Deeper faith
When Jesus was asked what was most important, he narrowed it down to one thing that gets to the heart of all three categories:
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind”; and, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27 NIV).
To help our kids learn to love God, imagine that as a parent, you have three dials you are constantly turning at every phase:
Dial #1 is WONDER. It affects a kid’s thinking and imagination about God’s love.
Dial #2 is DISCOVERY. It affects a kid’s emotional and moral response to God’s love.
Dial #3 is PASSION and it affects a kid’s relationships reflect God’s love.
Knowing how and when to turn these dials helps us prioritize what we say—teaching our kids that everything we do in life comes back to how we love God and how we love others.