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Christian Parenting Series
Part 3, Releasing Steadfast Children


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Table of Contents

  1. Parenting Young Children
  2. Discicipling Reasoning Children
  3. Releasing Steadfast Children
    (This article)
  4. Celebrating Established People of God

This Article’s Topics:

Preparing to Release

Identifying Fruit

Embracing Change

Releasing a Steadfast Child


PREPARING TO RELEASE A STEADFAST CHILD

The intense process of developing relationship while Parenting Young Children and Discipling Reasoning Children yields a bountiful harvest of steadfast young people, free to walk with the Lord in liberty. Steadfast
  1. Fixed; firm; firmly fixed or established
  2. Constant; firm; resolute; not fickle or wavering
  3. Steady

Proactive and grace-based parenting set the stage for the harvest of firmly established young people. The fruit of their lives blesses the Lord, blesses their parents, and blesses themselves.

Submission:

willingly coming under others
to release
them to love.

A young person who has experienced the focused, non-artificial, intense environment of submitting to and serving others at home is prepared to submit to and serve others outside of the home.

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IDENTIFYING FRUIT

Instead of following the crowd, the steadfast young person who knows the Lord and His ways will

When his heart is yielded to the Lordship of Christ, he will not

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CHANGING PARENT / CHILD RELATIONSHIP

As parents see these aspects of a young person’s heart come to fruition, they can rejoice together with their steadfast child:

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STEWARDING MY CHILD ~ RELEASING HIS CHILD

The gradual process of releasing a child who has valued the tool of home and enjoyed the relationship-building with parents and siblings throughout his years is not burdensome or frightening for the parents or the child.

In fact, it is joyous!

We parents are only stewards of our children’s lives.

Will we be faithful to the One Who is faithful to us?

Then one day,

parents will know that their child is no longer their child
whose life they steward
but that their child is now
fully His child.

Their parenting and discipling is now carried out fully by the Spirit of God directly in the young person’s life, just as it was meant to be from the day of that child’s birth.

Will we learn from Him how to parent and disciple our children
the way He parents and disciples us,
so that we can release them with confidence
in the Lord’s work in both our child’s life and our own?


For we have become partakers of Christ,
if we hold the beginning of our assurance steadfast
unto the end.
~Hebrews 3:14


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