Maximizing Our Influence As Family Leaders

Episode Summary. The opportunities to influence our kids’ lives go by in a flash and after they are launched are rarer still. So, dads and granddads need to know how to maximize the influence we do have. This episode examines God’s two-part design of the influence we wield as spiritual leaders of our home, positional influence and relational influence. In both cases, we must overcome false worldviews that deny the way God wants us to lead our homes. 

For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. How would you argue with a Christian brother who said, “My wife is better with the kids, so I leave their discipline to her?”
2. How does the discipline approach, “Your behavior is making mommy and daddy feel angry with you” violate the principles of biblical parenting?
3. Why do you think God makes such harsh statements about the failure to bring painful consequences for wrong behavior—you hate your child, you bring death to your child?
4. Why is biblical leadership more about winning the hearts of followers by serving them, than it is having responsibility for making decisions?
5. Which component of Jesus’ leadership practices with the twelve do you most need to put into practice in your leadership role?

 Recommended Resource Used in this Episode:

Boundaries With Kids: When to Say YES, When to Say NO to Help Your Children Gain Control of their Lives,  by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

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