As I’ve been writing my memoir, I’ve been struck by how many insights have come into focus while reflecting on my life. Perhaps the most significant is this: with a stronger foundation in God’s truth and basic biblical principles, I may not have fallen so easily into the deception and abuse that marked my early teenage years.
I recently came across a review of a book I’m eager to read—Keeping Kids Christian: Recovering a Christian Vision for Lifelong Discipleship by Cameron S. Schaffer, which is soon to be released.
A passage from the review deeply resonated with me in light of my own experiences:
“What happens at home is much more influential on a child’s faith than what happens at church. Faith, as it happens, is caught no less—and probably more—than taught, and parents are key to this process. … Seeing blatant parental hypocrisy is perhaps the most devastating blow for children’s fledgling faith. But parental apathy or a lack of maturity in the faith is likewise destructive.”
— Nadya Williams, “Discipleship Begins in the Home (But the Church Is Essential Too),” Mere Orthodoxy
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