{"id":301205,"date":"2006-10-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:42:28","slug":"the-home-is-the-key-part-1","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home is the Key, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voddie Baucham shares why our current approach to youth ministry is failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-10-02.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.35M","filesize_raw":"11902896","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2806],"tags":[4722,4158],"podcast_series":[7476],"cwp_profile":[],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301205","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-development","tag-christianity","tag-youth-ministry","podcast_series-closing-the-generation-gap","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301205\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301205\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UkCrdeQP4p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1\/\">The Home is the Key, Part 1<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-home-is-the-key-part-1\/embed\/#?secret=UkCrdeQP4p\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;The Home is the Key, Part 1&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"UkCrdeQP4p\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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failing.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-10-02.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Dr. Voddie Baucham want us, as parents, to raise our sons and daughters to have a passionate love for Christ.\u00a0 It is fundamentally, he says, our responsibility.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tVoddie:\u00a0Whose job is it to evangelize my children?\u00a0 The church?\u00a0 No, it's mine.\u00a0 Which means that, at best, any youth ministry that's going to exist at all had better have a mission statement that says, \"We exist to equip and assist parents as they do what God called them to do and not the church.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Monday, October 2nd.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Today we'll talk about the crucial role we play as parents in helping our children cultivate a heart for God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Monday edition.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'm a little late.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You are a little late.\u00a0 I was already starting the program.\u00a0 What are you \u2013 you brought in \u2013 that's a \u2013 oh, that's your \u2013\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I had to go get it for this broadcast today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I know why you had to go get for today's program.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I want to describe this for our listeners.\u00a0 This is about two and a half feet long, it's about \u2013 it really looks like a pregnant football.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's a good description.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It is, but it's a hornet's nest, and, I mean, this was a good bunch.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Where did you find this hornet's nest?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0This was the New York City hornets.\u00a0 I bought this off eBay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You bought a hornet's nest on eBay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0A number of years ago I spoke to a pastor's convention in Orlando, and based upon what I was going to do that day, it reminded me of my childhood when I threw a rock or two at a hornet's nest, and I brought this in and rock, and I told them I was their friend, but I was about to stir up the hornets.\u00a0 And based upon today's broadcast we \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0You just thought you ought to get the hornet's nest out of the closet, didn't you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I don't have my five smooth stones.\u00a0 We're not slaying any giants, but we are throwing a stone or two at a hornet's nest, because we're going to talk to a group of \u2013 well, actually, we're going to play a portion of a message given to a group of Southern Baptists in \u2013 wasn't it Houston, Texas?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0It was in Texas.\u00a0 I don't know if it was in Houston or not but a very similar situation.\u00a0 This was a pastor's gathering, and Tim LeHaye had been scheduled to speak and, for whatever reason, had to cancel.\u00a0 And so they called on one of their own \u2013 Dr. Voddie Baucham, who is a pastor from suburban Houston.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And I listened to this message, Bob, and I think all of our listeners need to put on one of those beehive suits.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0A protective suit?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0A protective suit, because Voddie is a preacher, and I'll tell you what, I resonate with what he's saying, obviously, or we wouldn't be featuring his message here on our broadcast.\u00a0 But he's speaking to the leadership of several Southern Baptist churches, and we might want to add here at this point, we are totally for the Southern Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention.\u00a0 They are good friends and comrades in the battle for the family and the proclamation of the Gospel, and he is, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0He is a friend.\u00a0 They asked him to fill in.\u00a0 But I'm going to tell you something, he could have had use of this hornet's nest, Bob.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0He speaks the truth in love as he speaks to them on the subject of youth and evangelism, and he's not just talking to pastors.\u00a0 He's talking to all of us as parents, as well, because he's saying that the church and the family need to be in lockstep if we're going to raise a generation of young men and women who really follow passionately after Christ.\u00a0 Let's go ahead and listen.\u00a0 This is part 1 of Voddie Baucham's message to the Texas Southern Baptist Pastors.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[from audiotape]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tVoddie:\u00a0You know, there are two sides of my life \u2013 there's this one side where cultural apologetics is what I live and breathe and teach and preach, and there's the other side where I'm Bridget's husband and Jasmine and Trey and Elijah's father and, by the way, we have another baby who will be here any day now.\u00a0 So God continues to be good to us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And there is a place where these two parts of my life merge.\u00a0 I want to share something with you tonight that has been sobering to me.\u00a0 The place where these two things merge is here, and I'm not real big on statistics, but I just need to share a few things with you to paint a picture, and I want to do the best that I can to let you know where these things come from.\u00a0 Those of you who know me, know that I am \u2013 it just pains me to ever have any notes when I preach.\u00a0 I just can't do it.\u00a0 I just can't have any notes, but I had to have some things here so I can tell you exactly where this information comes from and where you can go and find it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0One is this \u2013 that we are losing a generation, and we're losing that generation rapidly.\u00a0 For instance, depending on where you look, we're losing somewhere between 75 and 88 percent of our young people by the end of their freshman year in college \u2013 somewhere between 75 and 88 percent.\u00a0 For that low number, you can look at Glenn Schultz's work on Kingdom Education; for that high number, the 2002 Southern Baptist Council on the Family.\u00a0 So these are not things just made up or just grabbed out of the air.\u00a0 That's what's been happening over the last few decades.\u00a0 We're losing somewhere between 75 and 88 percent of our young people by the end of their freshman year in college. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There are a lot of you in here, and you're upset about the whole emerging church movement, you're upset about Brian McClaren and some of the theology that he's espousing.\u00a0 I don't like much of the theology that's coming out of the emerging church movement, but can I tell you what the impetus is behind the emerging church movement.\u00a0 Twenty-somethings are gone.\u00a0 The emerging church movement is saying, \"What do we do to recapture this age group?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0By the way, if you look around, you'll see that we have a generation gap among Southern Baptists, and it's time that we got honest about it, and part of it's because of what I'm telling you.\u00a0 Hold on, though, I'm not finished painting the picture.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In our culture, in America, for the first time, our birth rate is below replacement rate.\u00a0 Replacement rate is 2.1 children per family.\u00a0 We're at 1.9.\u00a0 Now, we're not as bad as much of the industrialized world.\u00a0 For example, in France, I think they're around 1.5 children per family.\u00a0 In Italy, there's somewhere around 1.1 children per family.\u00a0 Now, in case you don't understand what that means, what that means is, we're not having enough children for our culture to continue to survive.\u00a0 Our culture is dying, one generation at a time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, let me put skin on that for you \u2013 France, they have a birth rate of about 1.5.\u00a0 However, there are North African Muslims and Arab Muslims who have immigrated into France, and we saw some unrest because of those folks.\u00a0 Their birth rate is about six children per family.\u00a0 Which means in two generations, France will be a Muslim nation by sheer numbers alone.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they want prosperity more than they want children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And it's the same for us.\u00a0 Now let me put these two pieces of statistical information together \u2013 at two children per family, Southern Baptists, because we're no better than the rest of the culture on this \u2013 our attitude toward children is \"a boy for me and a girl for you and, praise the Lord, we're finally through.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Amen.\u00a0 It's an unwritten rule that you can only have two kids.\u00a0 However, there is one exception to the unwritten rule where you can have a third child, and that is if your first two children were the same sex, you get to try one more time for the other.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0That's the unwritten rule.\u00a0 We despise children in our culture.\u00a0 We despise children in the Southern Baptist Convention.\u00a0 You don't believe me?\u00a0 Find a woman with six or seven kids and follow her into a Southern Baptist church, and watch the way we mock her, watch the way people who don't even know her come up to her and say, \"Haven't you guys figured out how that happens yet?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now let me put these two statistics together.\u00a0 We lose 75 \u2013 let's take the most optimistic number \u2013 we're losing 75 percent by the end of their freshman year in college.\u00a0 We average two children per family \u2013 that means it currently takes two Christian families in this generation to get one Christian into the next.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me make it even more plain \u2013 there's 16 million Southern Baptists on paper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0By these numbers, next generation, 4 million; third generation, 1 million; fourth generation, 250,000 \u2013 more than numbers now, aren't they?\u00a0 Oh, but that's okay, we'll just replenish those numbers through evangelism.\u00a0 Interesting \u2013 in order to replenish those numbers through evangelism alone, what we would have to do is reach three lost people for every one Christian.\u00a0 Currently, we only reach one lost person for every 43 Southern Baptists.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now let me make it plain and bring it home \u2013 Christianity in America is dying one generation at a time, one home at a time.\u00a0 Christianity is dying.\u00a0 Among the Jewish community, the same thing is happening.\u00a0 Two scholars, Anthony Gordon and Richard Horowitz have done a study on what's happening in the Jewish community and listen to what they say.\u00a0 The research targeted three key quantifiable elements of Jewish survival \u2013 intermarriage rates, it's believers marrying other believers instead of non-believers so that they lose the faith; birth rates; and levels of Jewish education.\u00a0 When all these factors are tabulated and correlated, a troubling picture emerges of the future of American Jewry.\u00a0 Skyrocketing intermarriage rates, declining birth rates, and inadequate Jewish education continue to decimate the American Jewish people.\u00a0 We're right behind them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There was a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal just yesterday about Zoroastrians in India.\u00a0 Now, what do Zoroastrians in India have to do with anything?\u00a0 I'll tell you \u2013 here is what they were saying in the article \u2013 front page article in The Wall Street Journal \u2013 because of low birth rates and because people are getting married later and having fewer children than ever before, the Zoroastrian religion is about to be wiped off the face of the planet simply because they're not having kids and retaining the kids that they have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You smelling what I'm stepping in?\u00a0 What has been our answer \u2013 here's been our answer \u2013 our answer has been to divorce ourselves from the issue and hire youth pastors to make it better.\u00a0 That's been our answer.\u00a0 By the way, Alvin Reid, in his book, \"Raising the Bar,\" makes this observation \u2013 \"Over the last 30 years, we have seen the largest increase in the number of professional youth ministers, youth ministry degrees being handed out, and para-church organizations designed to reach youth, and we have seen the greatest decline in youth baptisms ever.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Let me make this statement, and then I'll back it up.\u00a0 While you open your Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 6, let me make this statement \u2013 our current approach to youth ministry, number one, is unbiblical; number two, is antithetical to what the biblical model is for the evangelization and discipleship of young people; and, number three, it doesn't work.\u00a0 Let me recap \u2013 number one, our current approach is unbiblical.\u00a0 I'm going to show you that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNumber two, our current approach is actually antithetical to the biblical model.\u00a0 It's one thing for something to not be found in the Scripture, it's another thing for something to actually work against what is clearly found in the Scripture.\u00a0 And, number three, which shouldn't be surprising at all, it doesn't work.\u00a0 Or do I need to say it again?\u00a0 Seventy-five to 88 percent is our current failure rate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Ephesians, chapter 6, verses 1 through 4 \u2013 I want to show you from the Scripture the centrality of the home in the evangelism and discipleship of the next generation \u2013 the centrality of the home in the evangelism and discipleship of the next generation.\u00a0 God has a plan for multi-generational faithfulness. That plan is the family.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many of the things that we currently involve ourselves in actually work against God's plan of the family.\u00a0 And so currently what we're doing is we're actually \u2013 this is \u2013 let me give you, for example, when I say that what we're doing is unbiblical \u2013 let me give you what we say is the goal of many of our youth ministries.\u00a0 What we say is this \u2013 the youth ministry at so-and-so Baptist Church exists to evangelize teenagers, to disciple them, and to equip them to go and evangelize other teenagers. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Two problems with that \u2013 number one, nine times out of 10 we never mention parents, and, number two, it's not your job.\u00a0 Whose job is it to evangelize my children?\u00a0 The church?\u00a0 No, it's mine.\u00a0 Whose job is it to disciple my children?\u00a0 The church?\u00a0 No, it's mine, which means that, at best, any youth ministry that's going to exist at all had better have a mission statement that says, \"We exist to equip and assist parents as they do what God called them to do and not the church.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[applause]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0It's one thing to me to make that statement, but I want you to just take my word for it.\u00a0 Ephesians, chapter 6, verses 1 through 4 \u2013 \"Children, obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right.\u00a0 Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment, with a promise \u2013 that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.\u00a0 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.\"\u00a0 The centrality of the home and the evangelism and discipleship of the next generation \u2013 the centrality of the home.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, please note, there's a difference because what's happening now is people are looking at the data, and a lot of our youth ministry programs are now moving toward ministry, youth, and their families, and so we were saying the kids are ours, and it's our job to evangelize them, our job to disciple them, and our job to mobilize them.\u00a0 Now we say it's still our job, but we want parents to help us.\u00a0 That's still the wrong answer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\"Well, brother, but you don't understand.\u00a0 These families out there, they're not doing it.\"\u00a0 Isn't that interesting?\u00a0 For 30 years here's what we've been telling them \u2013 \"We're trained professionals, please don't try this at home.<br>\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\"You don't understand your kids, your kids don't like you, trust me, just drop them off now.\"\u00a0 And now we're mad because they're doing what we've taught them to do for 30 years, which means if we want to lead children toward being spirit-filled, we don't lead them toward the youth pastor, we lead them toward Mom and Dad, because the measure of their yielding to the spirit of God is whether or not when their parents say something, they do what they're told when they're told and with a respectful attitude.\u00a0 That's what obedience is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, number one, we see the centrality of the home in the context here.\u00a0 He says, \"You want to take the spiritual temperature of a young person, you take the spiritual temperature of young person by whether or not they are submissive to the authority of their parents.\"\u00a0 That's the authority in their life.\u00a0 That's the spiritual authority in their life.\u00a0 The spiritual authority in my child's life is me.\u00a0 The spiritual authority in your child's life is you, which means anything that the church does had better not rob spiritual authority from Mom and Dad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[end audiotape]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, that is Dr. Voddie Baucham speaking to a group of pastors in Texas, Southern Baptist Pastors, and we had to turn your mike down while the message was being played so we didn't have folks here and you shout \"Amen,\" and \"Preach it,\" and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0I'll tell you the first time I heard this message, I was driving in my truck.\u00a0 I was saying, \"Thank you, God, for Voddie Baucham.\"\u00a0 I mean, he's a truth-speaker, and he was sharing with the right group of people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And, you know, here is the issue, folks.\u00a0 We are in a battle for the next generation, and, truthfully, the church is a key player in this whole process.\u00a0 It needs to reflect on how it's replacing families and what a family needs to be doing and stop replacing and doing its work for it and instead equip families, equip moms and dads and grandparents to do their responsibility, to do their duty and to take on the sharing of the Gospel, talking to our children about Jesus Christ and to realize, you know what?\u00a0 No, you, as a parent, haven't been to seminary, but you don't have to go to seminary to introduce your son or daughter to God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou, more than likely, if you've been going to church for any length of time, have got enough knowledge about who God is, and if you don't, you need to crack open your Bible and get introduced to Him yourself so you can take your child's hand in yours, and you can put your child's hand in God's hand and introduce them together and say, \"Son or daughter, who is God is and here is how you have a personal relationship with Him through Jesus Christ.\"\u00a0 Evangelism of the next generation needs to begin at home, period.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0And, as you said, it doesn't require that somebody be specially trained to do it, but it does require some time and some intentionality, and I think, as I look at families today, often, the intentionality is not there.\u00a0 We're distracted by other things that I would say, in the end, we would conclude were lesser things, and we're just busy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so we wind up not doing as moms and dads what we really do want to be doing, long term, as we raise our children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0That's exactly right, Bob, and one of the things that I did a number of years ago is I wrote a book called \"One Home at a Time,\" and it's really all about restoring the soul of America through God's plan for the family, and I think every father, mother, husband and wife ought to have a copy of this book to understand what their primary roles are in, first of all, their relationship with God; secondly, their marriage covenant; third, their relationship with their spouse and how they operate as husbands and wives, moms, and dads; and then, fourth, about how to leave a spiritual legacy of vitality to the next generation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And this book spells it out.\u00a0 It talks about where the battle is and how you can begin to assume responsibility in your own home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0We have copies of the book, as you might expect, in our FamilyLife Resource Center, and I agree, if our listeners have not read this book, it's very clarifying.\u00a0 It helps us focus on the right stuff as husbands and wives, as moms and dads, and as we seek to pass along our faith to the next generation.\u00a0 You can go on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You'll see a red button in the middle of the home page.\u00a0 If you click that button, it will take you right to a site where you can get more information about the book, \"One Home at a Time.\"\u00a0 You can order online if you'd like.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You'll also find information about Voddie Baucham's book, which is called \"The Everloving Truth,\" and the subtitle is, \"Can Faith Thrive in a Post-Christian Culture?\"\u00a0 I just talked to my son who is in his first year on the university campus, and he said, \"I'm starting to see it, Dad, in classes.\u00a0 I'm starting to see things that are \u2013 well, they just represent a departure from the faith he's grown up in.\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Voddie's book helps us, as parents, help our young people to know how you can stand for truth in a culture that is drifting away from the whole concept of absolutes and biblical authority.\u00a0 Again, the book is called \"The Everloving Truth.\"\u00a0 There is more information about it on our website at FamilyLife.com and, of course, if you are interested in a copy of Voddie's message that we're featuring this week on FamilyLife Today, you can order that from us as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the website is FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Click the red \"Go\" button in the middle of the screen, and that will take you right to the site where you can get more information about these resources.\u00a0 Order online, if you'd like, or, if you'd prefer to call, the number is 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and we'll make arrangements to have other resources that you want sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Speaking of CDs, your wife, Barbara, recently gave a message to a group of women that got a great response \u2013 a message on what a woman, what wife can do to help her husband step up to manhood; how she can help him be the man that God wants him to be.\u00a0 This month we wanted to make a copy of that CD, Barbara's message on that subject, available to any of our listeners who contact us here at FamilyLife Today and make a donation of any amount.\u00a0 We are listener-supported as a ministry, and those donations from listeners make it possible for this program to continue on this station and on stations all across the country.\u00a0 So we thought this month we would say thank you to those of you who can help us with a donation of any amount by sending a copy of this CD from Barbara Rainey.\u00a0 In fact, this is a message that we have never featured on FamilyLife Today, and we ought to do that sometime here in the future.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If you'd like a copy of Barbara's CD called \"Helping Your Husband Step Up to Manhood,\" you can make a donation online at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 When you get to the keycode box, as you fill out your donation form, just type in the two letters, \"CD\" and that's how we'll know that you want a copy of this sent out to you, or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Again, that's 1-800-358-6329, mention that you're interested in the CD from Barbara Rainey when you make your donation and, again, we'll be happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 We want to say thank you in advance for your ongoing financial support of the ministry of FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow we're going to hear part 2 of Dr. Voddie Baucham's message that we're featuring this week on FamilyLife Today.\u00a0 Tomorrow he really keys in on the priority of honoring parents if we do, in fact, want to raise a godly generation.\u00a0 We'll talk about that tomorrow.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you back next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited 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