1. 1 #irelateseries Copyright © Simon G. Harris 2012 Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission

2. 2 The parenting task What is it?

3. 3 Deuteronomy 6:1-2 These are the commands,... God directed me to teach you to observe... so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live Moving our children from dependence on us to dependence on God

4. 4 Mark 8:36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Moving our children from dependence on us to dependence on God

5. 5 Deuteronomy 6:2... so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live. The parenting legacy Parenting has a huge influence

6. 6 Deuteronomy 6:7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. The parenting responsibility... It’s your call

7. 7 Deuteronomy 6:4-5Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 1. to LOVE God with all your heart

8. 8 Deuteronomy 6:7-9Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door-frames... and on your gates. 2. to LEAD your family

9. 9 Proverbs 22:6Train a child in the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. 2. to LEAD your family

10. 10 The parenting mindset 1. Time Matthew 19:13-14People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me,... for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

11. 11 Matthew 19:18And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them. The parenting mindset 2. Touch

12. 12 Matthew 19:18And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them. The parenting mindset 3. Talk

13. 13 The parenting God God knows and understands Hosea 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

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