Today we’re talking about the fruits of the spirit and how to grow deeper in our faith and walk with the Lord as individuals and as families. 

 

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

 

We’ve heard them, memorized them and have them as decorations on our walls and yet...

 

They are really hard to live out - and even harder to teach your kids, especially when you feel like you are continually sowing seeds and seeing little to no fruit!

 

Joining me to discuss this topic is the author of Fruit Full: 100 Family Experiences For Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit, Christie Thomas.

Christie is passionate about teaching Christian moms that they don’t need to know it all to teach their kids how to grow in their faith but rather, they can lean into the One who knows all the answers. 

 

In this episode we’re diving into:

• How to avoid treating our relationship with God like a checklist
• Discipling both younger and older children in the fruits of the spirit
• The importance of being our children’s primary discipler

Don’t miss a moment as Christie shares a very interesting statistic of just who our children say the main spiritual influence really is in their lives…can you guess who it is?

Connect with Christie on Instagram and check out her resources at  littleshootsdeeproots.com

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FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

 

Power reveals who we are on the inside

 

Treating God like a checklist is empty worship

 

Programming isn’t the answer, parenting is

 

Building Faith at Home: Why Faith at Home Must Be Your Church's #1 Priority by Mark Holman

 

I don’t need to know it all or do it all, because I know the One who knows the answers

 

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

 

Little by little, a little becomes a lot - Tanzanian proverb

 

Every mom has some version of the fear that we are going to turn our kids away from God because of what we’ve done

 

God is still parenting us as we are parenting our kids 

 

Real change is happening in small everyday moments

 

It’s not what you know but Who you know

 

“Jesus, be the center of this”