Youth is a time of life when all manner of ideals are being formed in a person: reasoning skills, social skills, character qualities, work ethic, and academics. And yet, greater than these is the formation of the image our kids will have of God. Their God image is the sum total of their beliefs and feelings about who God is. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Brian Sutter speaks to the importance of shepherding this important formation in our children.

Why God Image is important?

• It is the lens through which you view life.

Where does God Image come from?

• Experience
• Teaching

Shepherding God Image in our kids:

• Tap their imagination.
• Share testimony.
• Model it in relationship.
• Be patient with their questions.
• Point them to the Scripture.

Helps:

• The Jesus Story Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones
• Children’s Authors: by Max Lucado
• The Ology by Marty Machowski
• Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Tiny Theologians
• Catechisms

We live in a God-bathed world. He is everywhere and in everything. But too often, we are moving to quickly to see Him. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Isaac Funk coaches us on how to slow down so we can catch up with God.

When we are restless with our ordinary lives, we are forgetting:

• Jesus took on flesh to show us that ordinary is okay.
• Posture is more important than performance.
• God is in the boring; the maturing Christian has eyes that see Him everywhere.
• Experiencing God is always done where we are - never anywhere else.
• We can be fulling pleasing to God living out the menial tasks that to us are ordinary.
• We catch up with God by slowing down and walking at Christ’s pace.
• We can be in two places at once: about our daily tasks and with God.
• Being human is not a problem. Jesus came to show us how to be fully human.