The Intentional Parents Podcast

A vision for your home, the daily mundane and the miraculous (Interview with Matt Markins)

Episode Summary

Today, we have Matt Markins on the show. Matt is the president and CEO of Awana. Some of you may have grown up in Awana, and others have never heard of it; Awana is a child discipleship and formation program that focuses on helping parents thrive in the daily mundane formational process with their children. In this episode, we talk about the three pillars of discipleship, how to work these into our families, a vision for your home, a culture of transparency, how parenting is both mundane and miraculous, and how the church community can shape a child's faith journey, to name a few. Enjoy!

Episode Notes

Today, we have Matt Markins on the show. Matt is the president and CEO of Awana. Some of you may have grown up in Awana, and others have never heard of it; Awana is a child discipleship and formation program that focuses on helping parents thrive in the daily mundane formational process with their children. In this episode, we talk about the three pillars of discipleship, how to work these into our families, a vision for your home, a culture of transparency, how parenting is both mundane and miraculous, and how the church community can shape a child's faith journey, to name a few. Enjoy!

 

Three Pillars of Discipleship

 

1)Be with Jesus

2)Become like Jesus

3)Do what Jesus did

 

Book: Resilient Child Discipleship

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Book: The faith of our children

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https://childdiscipleship.com/resilient-child-discipleship-training/

 

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