Voxology Parenting Without Shame: Growing Kids God's Way?
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Feb 21, 2024 The podcast tackles differentiating fruit and outcomes in parenting, challenges of using the 'rod,' and the importance of faithfulness over controlling results. They discuss the harmful effects of shame in parenting, debate Jesus teaching hate, and explore navigating reactions on Christian Twitter. The hosts emphasize building close relationships with children, focusing on character development, and nurturing spiritual fruit.
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Faithfulness Produces Fruit Not Outcomes
- Fruit is growth God produces that we cannot manufacture through strategies or control.
- Mike Erre uses the farmer/seed parable and Paul planting/apollos watering to show leaders must be faithful scatterers, not outcome controllers.
Create Environments That Prioritize Formation
- Do focus your work on creating environments that value love, patience, and kindness rather than trying to control measurable outcomes.
- The hosts recommend weekly practices (communion, table gatherings) that prioritize formation over numeric goals.
Fruit Feels Like Culture Not Numbers
- Fruit (character like patience, kindness) can be seen but not measured like outcomes; it shows as cultural flavor rather than a metric.
- Paul never boasts about ministry numbers; New Testament writers emphasize faithful witness and identity over measurable success.