It is not a sign of personal weakness or failure of character to feel unable as a parent. God did not create human beings to be independently able he designed us to be dependent. The reason for this is that there are no able people out there. The disciples weren’t able, and the story goes on. If you read your Bible carefully, you will understand that God doesn’t call able people to do important things. Like everything else God calls people to, God doesn’t call people to be parents because they are able. No, I would say, “His grace!” Let me explain why. If you would ask me what is the most important thing that God has given you as a parent, I wouldn’t say the wisdom principles of his Word.
If you are coming to TGC 2017, we hope you’ll join us for a Q&A breakfast with Paul Tripp on Tuesday morning. Over the years, we have enjoyed working with Paul David Tripp on ROOTED and other projects, and we deeply appreciate how he communicates God’s grace for the daily realities of life. What was the result? This question gets after consequences.įor more on this topic you can visit his resource page here.Today, we have the privilege of posting an excerpt from Paul David Tripp’s recent book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family, which you can purchase here.Your behavior is always the result of what you’re thinking and what you desire? What we’ve done is bracketed behavior with the thoughts and motives, interpretations, desires of the heart…Hebrews 4:12-13 – the heart is always thinking and always desiring. Why did you do it and what were you seeking to accomplish? This question gets after motives, goals, purposes, etc.With this question we’re teaching our children (and ourselves for that matter) that the behavior and words that came out in the situation were not formed by the situation but by how my heart reacted to the situation. What did you do in response? This goes after words and behavior.What were you thinking/feeling as it was happening? This question gets after the heart. You need to understand that no matter where you are, no matter what the situation is your heart is endless operating…you’re always interpreting, always worshipping, always desiring or wanting something.It’s impossible to recount something without biases. What was going on? This question is designed to simply get a sense of what was going on.You can change the verbiage but its important to walk through these question in the order given. He shares that the order of the questions must not be changed. Here’s some insight Paul Tripp gives on understanding the biblical function of our hearts.
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