Pre-Revolve Weekend Thoughts for Parents

I've been praying and preparing for Revolve Weekend a lot lately!  This weekend is going to be an incredible time of worship, fun, and growth in the lives of students.  If you were able to make the parent meeting on Sunday then you heard that Steve Frissell will be speaking at the weekend and will be teaching on the relationship between students and parents.  This made me think of an awesome series Andy Stanley and Reggie Joiner did at North Point Community Church a few years back.  If you're interested in downloading the sermons you can follow the link here and download the sermons for only $1.  Here are some points from the first sermon though.

Parental Guidance Required

Part 1: Questions Every Parents Should Ask
Our culture can often lead us to believe that our children should be experience rich and relationally poor.  Instead we should look to drive our students to be relationship rich and experience poor.

The reason we should do this is that most of our big life experiences and choices are impacted by the relationships we are in and not necessarily the experience around it.

The three biggest relationships that can shape who we are as a person are our relationships with our parents, your relationship or lack of relationship with God, and the relationships with people outside of your home.

We cannot control the experiences that our students have with other people as much as we can control the relationship they have with us as parents, their relationship with God, or their relationships with certain friends. 

Ephesians 6:4 - Parent child relationships
Parent/child relationships long term are more about influence then they are about control.

Proverbs 3:5-6 - Childs relationship with God
Teach our kids to surrender their lives to God.

Proverbs 13:20 - Childs relationships with others out of the home
Whether you realize it or not you are already influencing them in these three ways already ...

Here are the three questions we can always be asking ourselves about our children:

What are you doing to enhance your child’s relationship with you?

1. What am I doing to enhance my child’s relationship with you?
2. What am I doing to advance my child’s relationship with God?
3. What am I doing to influence my child’s relationship with people outside the home?

Here is a link to all of the sermons on the North Point Store web site.  Click Here