The Gospel-Centered Parent: Study Guide with Leader's Notes

Rose Marie Miller · Deborah Harrell · Jack Klumpenhower

Jun 2015 · New Growth Press

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Our children are precious to us, so naturally we want to protect them and guarantee their safety and happiness. We want to get it right, so our children will be all right. But we live in a broken world where things don't always (or ever?) go as planned. Children make mistakes, and, if they are honest, parents know they make mistakes too. So it's easy for parents to live in fear, regret, confusion, and sometimes hopelessness about parenting and the children they love. Is there a better way? Can you learn to live by faith, to trust the God who made you and your children with their past, present, and future? How can parents live by faith as they parent their children?

These are questions that are best answered in community. This ten-session small group resource will help parents apply the gospel of Jesus Christ to their families. Each lesson looks at parenting through the lens of God's grace for sinners (parents and children) and gives parents a gospel center to their parenting. Parents will learn how to live out the biblical principles of faith, repentance, and faithfulness to their calling as parents with their children. Each lesson is self-contained, featuring clear teaching from Scripture, and requires no extra work outside of the group setting. The self-explanatory Leader's Guide at the back of the book helps small group leaders with discussion questions and background material that clearly explain and apply the gospel truths from each lesson.

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About the author

Rose Marie Miller is a Bible teacher; conference speaker, and missionary with Serge. She is the author of From Fear to Freedom: Living as Sons and Daughters of God and Nothing Is Impossible with God: Reflections on Weakness, Faith, and Power; and coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Parent. Rose Marie and her late husband Jack Miller worked together to plant the New Life Presybyterian Churches and begin Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission). She has five children, twenty-four grandchildren, and forty-four great-grandchildren and divides her time between London, England and Jenkintown, PA.

Deborah Harrell is the Overseas Educational Advisor for Serge, with a degree in Child Development and Family Relations from the University of Arizona. Deborah is the author of the award-winning children's novel, Pinto's Hope, and contributing author of numerous articles in professional journals. She is also the coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Parent; What's Up? Discovering the Gospel, Jesus, and Who You REALLY Are; and What's Up? Elementary: Learning about God and Yourself. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, Jason, and their daughter.

Jack Klumpenhower, the son of a missionary pastor, is a television news writer by trade, but a Bible teacher by passion. He is the author of Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids and the coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Parent and What's Up: Discovering the Gospel, Jesus, and Who You REALLY Are. Married with two children, Jack is a freelance writer living in beautiful Durango, Colorado.

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