A Filipino Kids Pastor

Sermon-Based Fatherhood

I drive my kids to school every morning. This I found out to be the perfect time for me to disciple them or to mentor them. I have a habit of listening to AM Radio or to pod casts every time I’m in the car. But whenever drive them to school I purposely engage them and converse with them.

This is a bit of a challenge for me at first, it’s too early in the morning and I just want to drop them off to school, go back home and hit the sack for another hour. Gelo my 10 year old son is in no mood to converse anyway and so does Monty my 8 year old who’s still dreaming.

In a week I share two to three scriptures to them or I share a Bible story. I try to elicit or draw out the virtue or principle that I want to inculcate in them and I ask them first to share then my turn and then I’ll end in prayer. My kids especially Monty cannot go to school without me praying for them and blessing them. This was something my wife & I have imparted to them years back.

I know try sermon-base discipleship on them, we engage in the topic from the Sunday Service’s message. Like the message was about Martha last Sunday, we have been talking about things that distract us with our walk with Christ and how we should focus more on the things that pleases God.

We have to be creative in how we disciple or mentor our kids. We should be the most influential figures in their formative years. We should not merely rely on the school or the church to form them. We also have to be consistent in doing this; with our kids today we have to be deliberate.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go;
 even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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One comment

  1. so true! we must disciple our own kids! talk the talk and walk the walk. :)

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