{"id":301318,"date":"2007-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/our-lives-are-a-living-example\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:00:00","slug":"our-lives-are-a-living-example","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/our-lives-are-a-living-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lives are a Living Example"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s broadcast, Jim Elliff, founder of Christian Communicators Worldwide in Kansas City, MO, talks about the various ways God has of bringing His children into the faith.<\/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\/fl2007-03-06.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"9.99M","filesize_raw":"10473333","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2806],"tags":[4722,4818,4159,2209],"podcast_series":[7511],"cwp_profile":[9061],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301318","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-development","tag-christianity","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel","tag-parenting","podcast_series-how-children-come-to-faith-in-christ","cwp_profile-jim-elliff","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\/301318\/our-lives-are-a-living-example","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301318\/our-lives-are-a-living-example","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=\"qIZDyn2X4E\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/our-lives-are-a-living-example\/\">Our Lives are a Living Example<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/our-lives-are-a-living-example\/embed\/#?secret=qIZDyn2X4E\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Our Lives are a Living Example&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"qIZDyn2X4E\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, March 6th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Have your children seen you living out what it really means for someone to repent and believe the Gospel?\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 Tuesday edition.\u00a0 You know, as parents, we can get a lot wrong as we're raising our children, but we want to make sure that one thing we don't get wrong is the Gospel, both in how we articulate it and in how we live it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, I think one of the real challenges of the Christian community today is to not assume that our Christian faith is going to be passed down from one generation to another.\u00a0 And with us in the studio is a man who is not merely going to help us pass down our faith to our children, but as a man who has received the faith now from four generations, is that right, Jim?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0We're into our fourth generation of believers, and, in fact, worse than that, preachers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Oh, my goodness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0All the men are preachers, and the women married preachers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Man.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You wonder what his sons are thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Bob:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Am I predestined to being a preacher?\u00a0 The answer is, \"Probably, son, probably.\"\u00a0 Well, that's the voice of Jim Elliff, who joins us for a second day.\u00a0 He has been a pastor and has worked with pastors, really, throughout the United States, speaking nationally and internationally, and, along with his brother, has hosted \u2013 well, it's really an international convocation on revival calling people to prayer and repentance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I want to get into this fourth-generation story.\u00a0 You actually have \u2013 is it a great-grandpa, then, who came to Christ?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, my great-grandfather, right outside of Little Rock here, on a train.\u00a0 He had gone to Indian Territory from Tennessee with his young wife and bought some property with the $16 or $18 that he had.\u00a0 It was the chance of his lifetime.\u00a0 But she got sick, and she wanted to go back to Tennessee from Indian Territory, which was Oklahoma, by the way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he promised that he would take her back, and they got back on the train.\u00a0 She thought she would die in Tennessee, but she died, actually, before she got off the train, and she died right outside of Little Rock.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Now, how old were they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0He was a very \u2013 she was very young.\u00a0 They were just a young couple, I would say, in their 20s.\u00a0 And he got down on his knees outside of Little Rock, and when he got up, he was a new man in Jesus Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0His son was my grandfather.\u00a0 He grew up then in a godly influence, he was a vibrant Christian and, among the other children, was my grandfather, A.P. Elliff, who was converted then because of the influence of the family.\u00a0 And then my father, and my father has had four children, I am one of those \u2013 three boys.\u00a0 All of us are preachers, as well.\u00a0 My father was a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, and, as a young child, I gave my life to Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Following a series of meetings, I was hearing a man preach the Gospel; went home quite burdened.\u00a0 I had been burdened for some period of time and asking all kinds of questions about God, but there, beside the bed, in my parents' bedroom with my mother \u2013 my father was gone that evening, but with my mother, I trusted my life to Jesus Christ, and I felt that this was a genuine conversion experience. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, as you were talking, I couldn't help but think back to my own childhood conversion and really trusting Christ with my mom in a church class in the bottom of a basement, and it was really \u2013 well, I'd have to say it was the teaching of my parents along with their lives that God used to draw me, really, to His Son, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 And you really believe those are the two channels that God uses to bring people to Christ \u2013 our life and our message, the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right, yes, and the Bible says it.\u00a0 And that's why I believe it, I guess.\u00a0 Let me read 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verses 14 and following \u2013 \"But you must continue in the things, which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so we see in this passage that there are two conveyors of the Gospel.\u00a0 One, the lives of the people who are around us who are the believers.\u00a0 In the case of Timothy, of course, Eunice and Lois, who had, by the way, a sincere faith.\u00a0 That was their notable characteristic.\u00a0 And then, of course, the Apostle Paul, when Timothy was a young man, was quite an influence on him as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, you know, as we're talking about leading kids to Christ, we have a number of listeners who are single-parent moms who listen to the broadcast, and I think this passage ought to be a tremendous encouragement and give them hope that even though the family they're in may not have a man, first of all, God will use their lives and their teaching along with bringing powerful male mentors and male models just as God brought Paul into Timothy's life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, and Paul was brought into Timothy's life at a strategic time.\u00a0 Timothy was one of those who, like so many in the history of the church, was possibly converted as a child.\u00a0 We don't have an actual story of this, but we do find that, as a young man, he made public testimony of that, probably at his baptism.\u00a0 I think that's what we understand the passage to mean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so even though he was very likely converted as a young child, he publicly expressed that when the Apostle Paul came along and excited that and demonstrated the life of faith for him, I think, later on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Jim, illustrate from your life what it means to you to live the Gospel out in front of your kids.\u00a0 You're just not talking about taking them to church and doing good works in front of them.\u00a0 It's much more than that, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0It is much more than that.\u00a0 I like to say sometimes that we really live out before our children the implications of the Gospel.\u00a0 For instance, if we say our response to the Gospel should be one of repentance.\u00a0 Well I have to ask myself, \"Am I a repenting person?\u00a0 What sins have I repented of?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And maybe in front of your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0In front of the children, that's exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Give me an illustration from your life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, I can illustrate this many times.\u00a0 I've often \u2013 I don't know if you're like me, Bob and Dennis, but sometimes I come in at the end of a hard day, and I'm short with the kids and short with my wife, and I'm gruff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But I ask their forgiveness for things like that.\u00a0 I stop and say, \"Wait a minute, I was wrong in the way I handled your question or the way I cut you off, and what you have to say is more important than that, and please forgive me for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So you're modeling that repentance verbally and visually, heart-to-heart with your children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, I hope so, and I'm certainly wanting to do that.\u00a0 I am conscious of that idea.\u00a0 We also say that the Gospel requires faith; that we come by trusting our lives to Jesus Christ.\u00a0 I have to ask myself the question, \"Where am I demonstrating trust in Jesus Christ?\u00a0 What am I trusting God for?\u00a0 What do they see me praying for and expecting God to do?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And we have many wonderful experiences in this area.\u00a0 Our life is a life of trusting the Lord for all of our finances, so we have a great privilege, a kind of an easy way, in a sense, to demonstrate before our children that the Lord has to come through, or we're out on the streets.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So we're watching Him do that on a weekly basis, sometimes just on a daily basis, we see these things come through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Something else that's been on my heart in this issue is the fact that we model the character and the perspective of God to our children as well.\u00a0 For instance, we model out before them His view of sin.\u00a0 Here's a way that happens \u2013 we're all sitting around, let's say, watching some television program and, all of a sudden, this awful commercial comes on like they're prone to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And if you'll ever notice what happens is, depending on how you've been working with your children, is that all the children's eyes turn and look to Daddy or the mother, and they want to see, \"What's my Daddy think about that, that I just saw?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It happens at our house.\u00a0 They want to see what am I going to do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yeah, and you're a representative of God to them, and they're learning about what God's perspective is on sin.\u00a0 That's a very important thing when you think of the Gospel.\u00a0 They're also learning of his judgment of sin.\u00a0 How do they do that?\u00a0 One of the ways, I think, is by our consistent discipline.\u00a0 If we're not careful in our discipline of our children, we're going to teach them sloppy ideas about judgment.\u00a0 They need to have a crisp, clear idea about God's judgment.\u00a0 Nobody ever gets away with sin, do they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0No.\u00a0 And there's another point you make about this that is so important, Jim.\u00a0 You really believe that sometimes we, as parents, rush in to protect our children from the despair of sin and from the despair of feeling like they're headed for hell, and we rush in too quickly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, we do, and I think there was a lot of wisdom in many of our forebears.\u00a0 They believed it was important to let the conviction of the Holy Spirit soak for a while in the person.\u00a0 It was like digging the soil up for the seed of the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But conviction is vital to the receptivity of the Gospel.\u00a0 So we want them to see sin in their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And the temptation in this feel-good culture is if our children are feeling bad about their sin, we want to rescue them or get them out of that feel-bad condition.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right, yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And rush them to the cross, perhaps prematurely, at a point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Absolutely, it must be so.\u00a0 We're doing it prematurely many times, and I think it pervades a lot of the church life that we have in our day as well.\u00a0 I think sometimes we fail to realize that our objective, as far as the person is without Christ, is not so much to make them feel good but what does the Bible say?\u00a0 When they came in among the believers, they fell on their face before God and said \u2013 they were convicted of their sin \u2013 and they said, \"Surely God is in this place.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0That's a different objective entirely, and our churches don't often reflect that.\u00a0 But we, as parents, have to model before them God's view of sin and God's view of the judgment of sin.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or here's another thing we model \u2013 His faithfulness to keep his promises.\u00a0 Well, they're learning through us by our keeping our promises to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And that's part of the Gospel, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0It is, absolutely, a part of the Gospel.\u00a0 The Gospel is a promise to us, and if they cannot learn to have confidence in an authority, they will have a more difficult time to have confidence in God as their authority.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Jim, you have set a mantle on parents here to be God in front of their kids.\u00a0 That's a hard \u2013 it sounds like a hard yoke you have placed on us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, maybe I could qualify it a little in this way \u2013 one is, we're never God, but we act as representatives of the Lord, no question about that.\u00a0 But we are imperfect representatives.\u00a0 It's amazing what God does to sinful people, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think one of the redeeming points among all the failures that we, as parents, make is that we have the ability to stop in our tracks and say, \"I'm wrong.\u00a0 I've been doing it wrong.\"\u00a0 And we can say that to our kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And by doing that, we're not perfect, they know we are not God, but they see this ongoing repentance, which is characteristic of the Christian's lifestyle, and that's an important factor, I think, in living out the implications of the Gospel for our children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as you were saying to Jim, you were kind of loading us down some responsibility, I was thinking what he's doing is he's really embodying the truth of Deuteronomy, chapter 6, which really places a weight upon the shoulders of a parent to teach these things to their children.\u00a0 And there's a sense in which, as parents, we really do need to carry on our shoulders the sober, solemn responsibility that, as God's ambassadors and as, really, the first expression of God to our children, that we bear His imprint in our lives; that we are the living Gospel in front of them so they are learning pieces of the Gospel; how to place faith in God's promise; how to repent; how to sacrifice; God's judgment of sin \u2013 all of those are a part of our lives as we attempt to follow Christ as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I want to ask both of you a question, and, Jim, I'd ask you to respond to this first.\u00a0 What is the implication of a mother or father who is doing a good job of explaining and teaching the Gospel to her children or to his children but failing in this area of modeling the Gospel?\u00a0 In other words, they are getting the message through, but they're not living it out consistently.\u00a0 What's going to happen to those kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, they're actually doing a very negative thing.\u00a0 The momentum is moving in the wrong direction, for to speak the truths of the Gospel and not to live them is to really damage the child.\u00a0 The child will then become hardened and will see the hypocrisy, learn to live with it, be comfortable with it, will start modeling it, will think that's what the Christian life is all about.\u00a0 It's just speech and no life.\u00a0 The truth is in the reverse, isn't it?\u00a0 It is a life, and part of that life is the speech, which flows.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as Jim was talking, I was reflecting back on something I wrote in a call to a family reformation in just challenging parents to think about their lives and what they're passing on to their kids, and my great fear today is that parents are really not assuming their responsibility to live a holy life before their children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Listen to what I wrote here \u2013 \"As a parent, you cannot tolerate your depravity without acting depraved.\u00a0 You cannot lie and still represent the truth.\u00a0 You cannot cheat and then discipline a cheater.\u00a0 You cannot think you can hide your compromise from an omniscient God who promises to pass down your sin to four generations.\u00a0 If you want your garden to be fruitful, you can't section off a portion of it for weeds.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I went on to write, \"General Omar Bradley reinforces the need for character when he says, 'We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.\u00a0 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.\u00a0 Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.'\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I conclude my section by saying this \u2013 \"Today, more than ever, children need parents who are ethical giants \u2013 homegrown heroes with character.\"\u00a0 And that's what Jim has challenged us with here \u2013 a biblical concept of living messengers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 What greater privilege if God uses me for no other reason as a parent but to impact my son or my daughter or all my children.\u00a0 What great privilege could a parent possibly have but to seeing them introduced to the living, sovereign God of the universe through His Son, Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Let me read something that Ray Comfort wrote in his book, \"How to Bring Your Children to Christ.\"\u00a0 He says, \"Your own personal example of how to live out the Christian life will perhaps have the greatest influence on the spiritually of your children.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I've said to parents \u2013 not just about this subject \u2013 but I've said to them on a variety of subjects over the years, \"Your children will hear what you say, and they may do what you tell them to do, but they will ultimately become who you are.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so how we model the Gospel as parents is maybe the most essential part of our Gospel witness, maybe more important than what we articulate with our lips.\u00a0 Although I'd want to be real quick to say, we've got to be doing both, as parents.\u00a0 We've got to be speaking about what's important in our lives, we've got to be opening the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures with our children, and we've got to be living out what we say we believe in our own lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to encourage our listeners, if they don't have a copy of the book that I just read from, Ray Comfort's book, \"How to Bring Your Children to Christ and Keep Them There, Avoiding the Tragedy of False Conversion,\" I think this will be a helpful book as parents think through what we can do to influence our children with the message of the Gospel.\u00a0 Ultimately, it's up to God to change their hearts, but, as parents, we can play a role in introducing them to the person of Jesus Christ, and I think this book helps us understand how to do that, as parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then there's a book you and Barbara wrote, Dennis, called \"Growing a Spiritually Strong Family,\" that I think provides a framework for what our family can and ought to look like if we wanted to be spiritually healthy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've got both of these books in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 Any of our listeners who would like copies can go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You'll see a red \"Go\" button in the middle of the home page, and if you click that button, it will take you right to a portion of the site where you can get more information about both of these books, and if you're interested in copies of both of these books, we can send along at no additional cost the CDs that include our conversation on this subject with Jim Elliff so that you can review those yourself or pass them along to someone who may benefit from listening to this series.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the website is FamilyLife.com, and you'll want to click the red \"Go\" button in the middle of the screen, or call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, mention that you were listening to the radio, and you were curious about the resources we were mentioning, and someone on our team can let you know more specifics about these books and other resources and let you know how you can get them sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And speaking of articulating the message of the Gospel so that children can understand it, a number of years ago, our team came up with a tool, a resource that's been used by a lot of parents over the last decade or more, to help share the Easter story with children.\u00a0 It's a tool with which many of you are familiar.\u00a0 It's called Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 This year we would like to see a set of these Resurrection Eggs get into the hands of people who might not otherwise hear the Gospel, and we'd like your help at making that happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, we'd like to enlist you to be a part of our distribution network for these Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 Some of you, in the past, have been a part of The World's Largest Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt by hosting an Easter egg hunt in your neighborhood and using these Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 This year, what we'd like to ask you to do is to get a set of these eggs from us and pass them along to someone you know \u2013 a neighbor, a relative, someone at work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, when you make a donation to FamilyLife during the month of March of any amount, we want to send you a set of these eggs that you can pass along to someone else and, at the same time, we're going to work with Here's Life Inner City, which is a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, and through their network, we're going to make sure that a set of these Resurrection Eggs gets in the hands of a child in the inner city.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, again, when you make a donation of any amount, you'll be making sure that a child in the inner city gets a set of these Resurrection Eggs, and we'll send you a set either to use with your family or to pass along to someone you know, and we're hoping you might pick someone who doesn't know Christ at Eastertime to give them a set of these Resurrection Eggs would be a non-threatening way to share the Gospel with them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you make a donation this month to FamilyLife Today, and you're filling out the donation form online, you will come to a keycode box.\u00a0 Just type the word \"eggs\" into that box, and we'll know that you'd like to join us in this endeavor this year.\u00a0 Or make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Call 1-800-FLTODAY to make your donation and mention that you'd like to receive a set of Resurrection Eggs to pass along to someone, and you'd like to make sure a set gets to a child in the inner city as well, and we'll take your donation and make sure that that happens this year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And let me say thanks in advance for joining with us in this endeavor and helping get the Gospel out at Eastertime to as many children and their parents as possible.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, we've been challenged to the core to really consider our lives and how our lives are communicating the Gospel to our children.\u00a0 Jim, you've got one final, sobering challenge to parents as they think about how their life, their model, will communicate the Gospel to their children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0There was another family of several generations of preachers in early New England named the Mathers \u2013 Cotton Mather, Increase, and Richard Mather.\u00a0 Richard preached a sermon one time where he imagined the children on their way to hell on the Judgment Day addressing their parents.\u00a0 We don't know all that happens on the Judgment Day, but what an awesome thought.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But, at any rate, he paints this picture, and here is what the children say \u2013 \"All this that we hear suffer is through you.\u00a0 You should have taught us the things of God and did not.\u00a0 You should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not.\u00a0 You were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it.\u00a0 Woe unto us that we had such carnal and careless parents and woe unto you that had no more compassion and pity to prevent the everlasting misery of your own children.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as he was reading that, I was thinking we need prayer as parents.\u00a0 And that's how I'd like to conclude the broadcast today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Heavenly Father, these are sobering words.\u00a0 These, indeed \u2013 well, they cause us to look to You and say, \"O Lord help us with the next generation.\u00a0 Grant us favor and success in raising these that would follow long and hard after you.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Heavenly Father, I pray for each of us as parents, whether a single parent, whether a mom and dad together, whether grandparents, or whether a single person who is an aunt or an uncle to a youngster, heavenly Father, help us to take our responsibility that You have given us with a sober heart and yet with diligence that will honor You.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0To the Glory of Christ we pray, amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\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\t________________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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today's broadcast, Jim Elliff, founder of Christian Communicators Worldwide in Kansas City, MO, talks about the various ways God has of bringing His children into the faith.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2007-03-06.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0We really live out before our children the implications of the Gospel.\u00a0 For instance, sometimes I come in at the end of a hard day, and I'm short with the kids and short with my wife, and I'm gruff.\u00a0 Well, I have to ask myself \u2013 am I a repenting person?\u00a0 Please forgive me for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, March 6th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Have your children seen you living out what it really means for someone to repent and believe the Gospel?\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 Tuesday edition.\u00a0 You know, as parents, we can get a lot wrong as we're raising our children, but we want to make sure that one thing we don't get wrong is the Gospel, both in how we articulate it and in how we live it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, I think one of the real challenges of the Christian community today is to not assume that our Christian faith is going to be passed down from one generation to another.\u00a0 And with us in the studio is a man who is not merely going to help us pass down our faith to our children, but as a man who has received the faith now from four generations, is that right, Jim?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0We're into our fourth generation of believers, and, in fact, worse than that, preachers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Oh, my goodness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0All the men are preachers, and the women married preachers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Man.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You wonder what his sons are thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Bob:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Am I predestined to being a preacher?\u00a0 The answer is, \"Probably, son, probably.\"\u00a0 Well, that's the voice of Jim Elliff, who joins us for a second day.\u00a0 He has been a pastor and has worked with pastors, really, throughout the United States, speaking nationally and internationally, and, along with his brother, has hosted \u2013 well, it's really an international convocation on revival calling people to prayer and repentance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, I want to get into this fourth-generation story.\u00a0 You actually have \u2013 is it a great-grandpa, then, who came to Christ?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, my great-grandfather, right outside of Little Rock here, on a train.\u00a0 He had gone to Indian Territory from Tennessee with his young wife and bought some property with the $16 or $18 that he had.\u00a0 It was the chance of his lifetime.\u00a0 But she got sick, and she wanted to go back to Tennessee from Indian Territory, which was Oklahoma, by the way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so he promised that he would take her back, and they got back on the train.\u00a0 She thought she would die in Tennessee, but she died, actually, before she got off the train, and she died right outside of Little Rock.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Now, how old were they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0He was a very \u2013 she was very young.\u00a0 They were just a young couple, I would say, in their 20s.\u00a0 And he got down on his knees outside of Little Rock, and when he got up, he was a new man in Jesus Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0His son was my grandfather.\u00a0 He grew up then in a godly influence, he was a vibrant Christian and, among the other children, was my grandfather, A.P. Elliff, who was converted then because of the influence of the family.\u00a0 And then my father, and my father has had four children, I am one of those \u2013 three boys.\u00a0 All of us are preachers, as well.\u00a0 My father was a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, and, as a young child, I gave my life to Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Following a series of meetings, I was hearing a man preach the Gospel; went home quite burdened.\u00a0 I had been burdened for some period of time and asking all kinds of questions about God, but there, beside the bed, in my parents' bedroom with my mother \u2013 my father was gone that evening, but with my mother, I trusted my life to Jesus Christ, and I felt that this was a genuine conversion experience. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, as you were talking, I couldn't help but think back to my own childhood conversion and really trusting Christ with my mom in a church class in the bottom of a basement, and it was really \u2013 well, I'd have to say it was the teaching of my parents along with their lives that God used to draw me, really, to His Son, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 And you really believe those are the two channels that God uses to bring people to Christ \u2013 our life and our message, the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right, yes, and the Bible says it.\u00a0 And that's why I believe it, I guess.\u00a0 Let me read 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verses 14 and following \u2013 \"But you must continue in the things, which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so we see in this passage that there are two conveyors of the Gospel.\u00a0 One, the lives of the people who are around us who are the believers.\u00a0 In the case of Timothy, of course, Eunice and Lois, who had, by the way, a sincere faith.\u00a0 That was their notable characteristic.\u00a0 And then, of course, the Apostle Paul, when Timothy was a young man, was quite an influence on him as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And, you know, as we're talking about leading kids to Christ, we have a number of listeners who are single-parent moms who listen to the broadcast, and I think this passage ought to be a tremendous encouragement and give them hope that even though the family they're in may not have a man, first of all, God will use their lives and their teaching along with bringing powerful male mentors and male models just as God brought Paul into Timothy's life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, and Paul was brought into Timothy's life at a strategic time.\u00a0 Timothy was one of those who, like so many in the history of the church, was possibly converted as a child.\u00a0 We don't have an actual story of this, but we do find that, as a young man, he made public testimony of that, probably at his baptism.\u00a0 I think that's what we understand the passage to mean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so even though he was very likely converted as a young child, he publicly expressed that when the Apostle Paul came along and excited that and demonstrated the life of faith for him, I think, later on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Jim, illustrate from your life what it means to you to live the Gospel out in front of your kids.\u00a0 You're just not talking about taking them to church and doing good works in front of them.\u00a0 It's much more than that, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0It is much more than that.\u00a0 I like to say sometimes that we really live out before our children the implications of the Gospel.\u00a0 For instance, if we say our response to the Gospel should be one of repentance.\u00a0 Well I have to ask myself, \"Am I a repenting person?\u00a0 What sins have I repented of?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And maybe in front of your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0In front of the children, that's exactly right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Give me an illustration from your life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, I can illustrate this many times.\u00a0 I've often \u2013 I don't know if you're like me, Bob and Dennis, but sometimes I come in at the end of a hard day, and I'm short with the kids and short with my wife, and I'm gruff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But I ask their forgiveness for things like that.\u00a0 I stop and say, \"Wait a minute, I was wrong in the way I handled your question or the way I cut you off, and what you have to say is more important than that, and please forgive me for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0So you're modeling that repentance verbally and visually, heart-to-heart with your children?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, I hope so, and I'm certainly wanting to do that.\u00a0 I am conscious of that idea.\u00a0 We also say that the Gospel requires faith; that we come by trusting our lives to Jesus Christ.\u00a0 I have to ask myself the question, \"Where am I demonstrating trust in Jesus Christ?\u00a0 What am I trusting God for?\u00a0 What do they see me praying for and expecting God to do?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And we have many wonderful experiences in this area.\u00a0 Our life is a life of trusting the Lord for all of our finances, so we have a great privilege, a kind of an easy way, in a sense, to demonstrate before our children that the Lord has to come through, or we're out on the streets.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So we're watching Him do that on a weekly basis, sometimes just on a daily basis, we see these things come through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Something else that's been on my heart in this issue is the fact that we model the character and the perspective of God to our children as well.\u00a0 For instance, we model out before them His view of sin.\u00a0 Here's a way that happens \u2013 we're all sitting around, let's say, watching some television program and, all of a sudden, this awful commercial comes on like they're prone to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And if you'll ever notice what happens is, depending on how you've been working with your children, is that all the children's eyes turn and look to Daddy or the mother, and they want to see, \"What's my Daddy think about that, that I just saw?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0It happens at our house.\u00a0 They want to see what am I going to do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yeah, and you're a representative of God to them, and they're learning about what God's perspective is on sin.\u00a0 That's a very important thing when you think of the Gospel.\u00a0 They're also learning of his judgment of sin.\u00a0 How do they do that?\u00a0 One of the ways, I think, is by our consistent discipline.\u00a0 If we're not careful in our discipline of our children, we're going to teach them sloppy ideas about judgment.\u00a0 They need to have a crisp, clear idea about God's judgment.\u00a0 Nobody ever gets away with sin, do they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0No.\u00a0 And there's another point you make about this that is so important, Jim.\u00a0 You really believe that sometimes we, as parents, rush in to protect our children from the despair of sin and from the despair of feeling like they're headed for hell, and we rush in too quickly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Yes, we do, and I think there was a lot of wisdom in many of our forebears.\u00a0 They believed it was important to let the conviction of the Holy Spirit soak for a while in the person.\u00a0 It was like digging the soil up for the seed of the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But conviction is vital to the receptivity of the Gospel.\u00a0 So we want them to see sin in their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And the temptation in this feel-good culture is if our children are feeling bad about their sin, we want to rescue them or get them out of that feel-bad condition.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0That's right, yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And rush them to the cross, perhaps prematurely, at a point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Absolutely, it must be so.\u00a0 We're doing it prematurely many times, and I think it pervades a lot of the church life that we have in our day as well.\u00a0 I think sometimes we fail to realize that our objective, as far as the person is without Christ, is not so much to make them feel good but what does the Bible say?\u00a0 When they came in among the believers, they fell on their face before God and said \u2013 they were convicted of their sin \u2013 and they said, \"Surely God is in this place.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0That's a different objective entirely, and our churches don't often reflect that.\u00a0 But we, as parents, have to model before them God's view of sin and God's view of the judgment of sin.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or here's another thing we model \u2013 His faithfulness to keep his promises.\u00a0 Well, they're learning through us by our keeping our promises to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0And that's part of the Gospel, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0It is, absolutely, a part of the Gospel.\u00a0 The Gospel is a promise to us, and if they cannot learn to have confidence in an authority, they will have a more difficult time to have confidence in God as their authority.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Jim, you have set a mantle on parents here to be God in front of their kids.\u00a0 That's a hard \u2013 it sounds like a hard yoke you have placed on us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, maybe I could qualify it a little in this way \u2013 one is, we're never God, but we act as representatives of the Lord, no question about that.\u00a0 But we are imperfect representatives.\u00a0 It's amazing what God does to sinful people, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think one of the redeeming points among all the failures that we, as parents, make is that we have the ability to stop in our tracks and say, \"I'm wrong.\u00a0 I've been doing it wrong.\"\u00a0 And we can say that to our kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And by doing that, we're not perfect, they know we are not God, but they see this ongoing repentance, which is characteristic of the Christian's lifestyle, and that's an important factor, I think, in living out the implications of the Gospel for our children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as you were saying to Jim, you were kind of loading us down some responsibility, I was thinking what he's doing is he's really embodying the truth of Deuteronomy, chapter 6, which really places a weight upon the shoulders of a parent to teach these things to their children.\u00a0 And there's a sense in which, as parents, we really do need to carry on our shoulders the sober, solemn responsibility that, as God's ambassadors and as, really, the first expression of God to our children, that we bear His imprint in our lives; that we are the living Gospel in front of them so they are learning pieces of the Gospel; how to place faith in God's promise; how to repent; how to sacrifice; God's judgment of sin \u2013 all of those are a part of our lives as we attempt to follow Christ as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I want to ask both of you a question, and, Jim, I'd ask you to respond to this first.\u00a0 What is the implication of a mother or father who is doing a good job of explaining and teaching the Gospel to her children or to his children but failing in this area of modeling the Gospel?\u00a0 In other words, they are getting the message through, but they're not living it out consistently.\u00a0 What's going to happen to those kids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0Well, they're actually doing a very negative thing.\u00a0 The momentum is moving in the wrong direction, for to speak the truths of the Gospel and not to live them is to really damage the child.\u00a0 The child will then become hardened and will see the hypocrisy, learn to live with it, be comfortable with it, will start modeling it, will think that's what the Christian life is all about.\u00a0 It's just speech and no life.\u00a0 The truth is in the reverse, isn't it?\u00a0 It is a life, and part of that life is the speech, which flows.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as Jim was talking, I was reflecting back on something I wrote in a call to a family reformation in just challenging parents to think about their lives and what they're passing on to their kids, and my great fear today is that parents are really not assuming their responsibility to live a holy life before their children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Listen to what I wrote here \u2013 \"As a parent, you cannot tolerate your depravity without acting depraved.\u00a0 You cannot lie and still represent the truth.\u00a0 You cannot cheat and then discipline a cheater.\u00a0 You cannot think you can hide your compromise from an omniscient God who promises to pass down your sin to four generations.\u00a0 If you want your garden to be fruitful, you can't section off a portion of it for weeds.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I went on to write, \"General Omar Bradley reinforces the need for character when he says, 'We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.\u00a0 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.\u00a0 Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.'\" \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I conclude my section by saying this \u2013 \"Today, more than ever, children need parents who are ethical giants \u2013 homegrown heroes with character.\"\u00a0 And that's what Jim has challenged us with here \u2013 a biblical concept of living messengers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 What greater privilege if God uses me for no other reason as a parent but to impact my son or my daughter or all my children.\u00a0 What great privilege could a parent possibly have but to seeing them introduced to the living, sovereign God of the universe through His Son, Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Let me read something that Ray Comfort wrote in his book, \"How to Bring Your Children to Christ.\"\u00a0 He says, \"Your own personal example of how to live out the Christian life will perhaps have the greatest influence on the spiritually of your children.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I've said to parents \u2013 not just about this subject \u2013 but I've said to them on a variety of subjects over the years, \"Your children will hear what you say, and they may do what you tell them to do, but they will ultimately become who you are.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so how we model the Gospel as parents is maybe the most essential part of our Gospel witness, maybe more important than what we articulate with our lips.\u00a0 Although I'd want to be real quick to say, we've got to be doing both, as parents.\u00a0 We've got to be speaking about what's important in our lives, we've got to be opening the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures with our children, and we've got to be living out what we say we believe in our own lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to encourage our listeners, if they don't have a copy of the book that I just read from, Ray Comfort's book, \"How to Bring Your Children to Christ and Keep Them There, Avoiding the Tragedy of False Conversion,\" I think this will be a helpful book as parents think through what we can do to influence our children with the message of the Gospel.\u00a0 Ultimately, it's up to God to change their hearts, but, as parents, we can play a role in introducing them to the person of Jesus Christ, and I think this book helps us understand how to do that, as parents.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then there's a book you and Barbara wrote, Dennis, called \"Growing a Spiritually Strong Family,\" that I think provides a framework for what our family can and ought to look like if we wanted to be spiritually healthy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've got both of these books in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 Any of our listeners who would like copies can go to our website, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 You'll see a red \"Go\" button in the middle of the home page, and if you click that button, it will take you right to a portion of the site where you can get more information about both of these books, and if you're interested in copies of both of these books, we can send along at no additional cost the CDs that include our conversation on this subject with Jim Elliff so that you can review those yourself or pass them along to someone who may benefit from listening to this series.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Again, the website is FamilyLife.com, and you'll want to click the red \"Go\" button in the middle of the screen, or call 1-800-FLTODAY, that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, mention that you were listening to the radio, and you were curious about the resources we were mentioning, and someone on our team can let you know more specifics about these books and other resources and let you know how you can get them sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And speaking of articulating the message of the Gospel so that children can understand it, a number of years ago, our team came up with a tool, a resource that's been used by a lot of parents over the last decade or more, to help share the Easter story with children.\u00a0 It's a tool with which many of you are familiar.\u00a0 It's called Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 This year we would like to see a set of these Resurrection Eggs get into the hands of people who might not otherwise hear the Gospel, and we'd like your help at making that happen.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, we'd like to enlist you to be a part of our distribution network for these Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 Some of you, in the past, have been a part of The World's Largest Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt by hosting an Easter egg hunt in your neighborhood and using these Resurrection Eggs.\u00a0 This year, what we'd like to ask you to do is to get a set of these eggs from us and pass them along to someone you know \u2013 a neighbor, a relative, someone at work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In fact, when you make a donation to FamilyLife during the month of March of any amount, we want to send you a set of these eggs that you can pass along to someone else and, at the same time, we're going to work with Here's Life Inner City, which is a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, and through their network, we're going to make sure that a set of these Resurrection Eggs gets in the hands of a child in the inner city.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, again, when you make a donation of any amount, you'll be making sure that a child in the inner city gets a set of these Resurrection Eggs, and we'll send you a set either to use with your family or to pass along to someone you know, and we're hoping you might pick someone who doesn't know Christ at Eastertime to give them a set of these Resurrection Eggs would be a non-threatening way to share the Gospel with them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you make a donation this month to FamilyLife Today, and you're filling out the donation form online, you will come to a keycode box.\u00a0 Just type the word \"eggs\" into that box, and we'll know that you'd like to join us in this endeavor this year.\u00a0 Or make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 Call 1-800-FLTODAY to make your donation and mention that you'd like to receive a set of Resurrection Eggs to pass along to someone, and you'd like to make sure a set gets to a child in the inner city as well, and we'll take your donation and make sure that that happens this year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And let me say thanks in advance for joining with us in this endeavor and helping get the Gospel out at Eastertime to as many children and their parents as possible.\u00a0 Dennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Well, we've been challenged to the core to really consider our lives and how our lives are communicating the Gospel to our children.\u00a0 Jim, you've got one final, sobering challenge to parents as they think about how their life, their model, will communicate the Gospel to their children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJim:\u00a0There was another family of several generations of preachers in early New England named the Mathers \u2013 Cotton Mather, Increase, and Richard Mather.\u00a0 Richard preached a sermon one time where he imagined the children on their way to hell on the Judgment Day addressing their parents.\u00a0 We don't know all that happens on the Judgment Day, but what an awesome thought.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0But, at any rate, he paints this picture, and here is what the children say \u2013 \"All this that we hear suffer is through you.\u00a0 You should have taught us the things of God and did not.\u00a0 You should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not.\u00a0 You were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it.\u00a0 Woe unto us that we had such carnal and careless parents and woe unto you that had no more compassion and pity to prevent the everlasting misery of your own children.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0You know, Bob, as he was reading that, I was thinking we need prayer as parents.\u00a0 And that's how I'd like to conclude the broadcast today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Heavenly Father, these are sobering words.\u00a0 These, indeed \u2013 well, they cause us to look to You and say, \"O Lord help us with the next generation.\u00a0 Grant us favor and success in raising these that would follow long and hard after you.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Heavenly Father, I pray for each of us as parents, whether a single parent, whether a mom and dad together, whether grandparents, or whether a single person who is an aunt or an uncle to a youngster, heavenly Father, help us to take our responsibility that You have given us with a sober heart and yet with diligence that will honor You.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0To the Glory of Christ we pray, amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\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\t________________________________________________________________\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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