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A few years in the past, I used to be assembly with a gaggle of youngsters’s ministry leaders from throughout our denomination to plan our annual CDM LEAD Retreat. Inside a bigger dialogue on the necessity for discipleship sources for folks, one in all our crew envisioned “one thing” for folks to make use of whereas on the highway. I didn’t assume a lot of it till I had a type of light-bulb moments whereas driving my then thirteen-year-old son to highschool. We journey to highschool day-after-day collectively, since he attends the Christian faculty that could be a ministry of our PCA church (for which I occur to work). Our each day morning commute is often eighteen minutes lengthy. I spotted that we spent roughly two minutes of that point speaking about what was occurring in school, adopted by sixteen minutes of listening to my favourite 70’s and 80’s radio stations. Due to these routines, my son had develop into an skilled within the pop/rock music of my childhood! I had been discipling him in a manner I didn’t absolutely intend. Extra regrettably, I had been lacking prime discipleship opportunies—as my church’s Director of Discipleship, thoughts you.
So, remembering the dialog with my youngsters’s ministry friends, I went to work on a discipleship useful resource for folks to make use of whereas on the highway with their youngsters. Highway Speak was born! It was a easy idea: a spiral-bound flipbook to information mother and father into discipleship discussions. Learn a few Scripture verses and reply 5 questions. That’s it. Listed below are the precise directions:
Flip off the radio. Flip off the display screen. Don’t reply your cellular phone (until it’s an emergency).
Driver: Hold your eyes on the highway.
Passengers: Learn the Scripture passage. Ask the questions.
All: Reply the questions. Have good conversations!
Highway Speak, Quantity 1 consists of ninety-nine days of discipleship conversations, from Romans to Colossians. Volumes 2 and 3 cowl the remainder of the New Testomony epistles.
As I “check drove” Highway Speak with my son, I witnessed a exceptional change in our commute time. We nonetheless speak about faculty and take heed to some music. However now, 8-9 minutes are taken up with studying and discussing God’s Phrase, with some very sensible each day utility. At first, I did a lot of the speaking; now, my son does way more. Over the previous 12 months and a half, our conversations have develop into extra Christ-centered than ever earlier than. My prayer is that these occasions will bear a lot fruit in our lives.
While you take a look at Highway Speak for your self, you will notice that there’s nothing really profound, besides the Phrase of God! Simply a few verses and some questions for dialogue. But, it is a time-honored methodology of speaking about God’s Phrase that goes again to Moses, as he instructed God’s individuals: “You shall educate them diligently to your youngsters, and shall discuss of them if you sit in your home, and if you stroll by the way in which…” (Deuteronomy 6:8). Most mother and father, like me, might use a useful resource that resides within the console of our SUV to immediate us to speak to our kids concerning the Lord! I’m very grateful to our personal PCA CDM for partnering with One Story Ministries to publish and distribute all three volumes of Highway Speak.
However why cease there? How a couple of useful resource for discipleship discussions across the desk at residence? Meal Speak is the subsequent within the sequence from CDM and One Story Ministries. These volumes embrace readings from the Psalms and Proverbs (alternating every day). It’s the identical design and format; to be used at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Whereas this useful resource was created with mother and father and youngsters in thoughts, I’ve had studies of married {couples} additionally utilizing it for their very own edification. Don’t miss alternatives for marriage and household discipleship at meal occasions!
For the reason that Highway Speak and Meal Speak sequence have been printed, I’ve had a number of ideas a couple of subsequent discipleship sequence for folks. As a Biblical Counselor, I wished to provide you with one thing that might assist mother and father dig a bit deeper into the hearts of their youngsters. So, this 12 months I simply completed, Soul Speak, Quantity 1. As a substitute of chronological Scripture passages, it presents eleven passages on 9 totally different counseling matters. A few of these are: Anger, nervousness and fear, despair, relationships, and communication. This format permits discipleship conversations concerning the issues all of us face on this life, utilizing God’s Phrase to coach our minds and hearts.
Highway Speak, Meal Speak, and Soul Speak can be found completely at pcabookstore.com. If you can be attending the PCA Normal Meeting in Chattanooga this 12 months, you’ll be able to flip via them at our One Story Ministries sales space. While you cease by, you even have the prospect to get to know all of the discipleship sources we provide for youngsters, youth, and adults to be used within the church, residence, and Christian faculty. Now, greater than ever, we don’t must miss any of our God-given discipleship alternatives with the subsequent era!
John C. Kwasny, Sr. is the Government Ministries Director at Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church and the Government Director of One Story Ministries (OSM). He’s the creator of all OSM’s six curriculum traces, in addition to a number of different books and sources. John can be a Biblical counselor, seminary professor, podcaster, and an everyday convention speaker. Go to onestoryministries.org or johnkwasny.com to be taught extra.
