Calling - A Gospel Parenting Principle

Over the next 14 days, we are going to post the 14 principles in Paul Tripp's new book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Calling
Principle:  Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God's tools to form a human soul.

"Your church was not designed to replace you, but to assist and equip you in this essential [disciple making] work.  Your government was never designed to replace you, but to protect you as you do this core work.  The school near you will never replace you; at the very best it will support you as you do the work that only you can do.  You could argue that the chief reason God puts parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.  The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character and plan of God.  If you know this fact, it will alter the way you understand and interpret every other fact in your life."

Read more about this calling in yesterday's post "THE most helpful parenting passage in the Bible..."

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