If you have children, you know that parenting is a relay race. It is our #1 job to pass the baton of faith to our kids. 

Dropping the baton of faith…

Missing the spiritual connections… 
Can cause us (& our kids) to lose the race! 

So, how do we make spiritual connections with our kids? How do we pass the baton of faith to 

our children?

C – Consistently Model Your Faith

Model what it means to be a Christ follower.

O – Outward Influence

Know that external influence leads to internal lifestyle.

N – Nurture Godly Character 

The goal is to move kids beyond having Biblical knowledge to living a Biblical lifestyle – to help form head knowledge, heart attitudes, hand actions that are in line with God and His Word. 

N – Normal not Formal

Make God normal in your home. It’s about an everyday RELATIONSHIP with God…not an every week RELIGION about God.

 

E – Establish Reminders

Your daily practices and rhythms fuel your spiritual connections with your kids. Look for simple ways to connect God to their world.

 

C – Celebrate Milestones

 

Set spiritual markers in your child’s life. 

 

T – Transfer Faith

 

 

Our priority as a mom and/or a dad is to gradually transfer dependence. Our children, when they are little, they depend on us for everything. Don’t they? And over time, we will help transfer their dependence to where they will no longer depend on us, but instead, they depend on the only One who will ever be completely faithful and true to them in every single way. We teach them to depend on God.