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00:01:22.420app. In part one of today's episode, we're going to be discussing how to cultivate a love and
00:01:29.060respect for the church in the home. And in part two, we're going to be talking about a related
00:01:35.180topic titled something like honoring authority in the church, where we're going to be discussing
00:01:42.080setting your children up for spiritual success by loving the church and respecting pastors.
00:01:49.160And I think this is vital because in a time of church hurt and rampant claims of, you know, ecclesiastical abuse, not to say that some of those aren't valid, but we have so many people that are, you know, I left the church because I had spiritual abuse when in reality, you were just corrected because you were sleeping with your boyfriend or whatever it may be.
00:02:09.580And so we have a time that we need to discuss this to set your kids up so that they can have a long-term success in the church.
00:02:18.580So let's open up with part one, church and the home.
00:02:26.000And by the way, Veronica and I, we don't like spend a ton of time getting prepped for a lot of these shows.
00:02:32.300These are really just kind of impromptu discussions about this.
00:02:35.840veronica i actually said hey what do you think is important this week to talk about and you brought
00:02:40.720up the topic once you share what you just said earlier yeah i just brought up the fact that i
00:02:46.080think it's important for the church the greater church and not just like our the the church that
00:02:52.480you shepherd um to have a discussion or examine themselves on church authority um on um you know
00:03:04.160scripture clearly tells us to give double honor especially to those who are pastoring and teaching
00:03:11.840and i just think that this whole millennial gen z culture um the church or sorry the culture has
00:03:18.240influenced the church in a negative way in this area um and i just i see it a lot not necessarily
00:03:26.720towards you directly i have seen it done towards you directly but um you know you had mentioned
00:03:32.800you know seeing 20 year olds bantering and arguing uh with john piper who has been in ministry for
00:03:41.760how many years yeah 50 years got a doctorate in theology and these 20 year old people are just
00:03:47.200being super disrespectful blatantly um yeah just blatantly disrespectful and not you know being
00:03:54.640curious before they're critical and i see it all the time and so um i think it's something that
00:23:02.060People are like, I have to remind like, uh, lay people, I mean, I'm, I'm saying that
00:23:08.420because I'm in what is considered the clergy.
00:23:11.000I'm, I'm a, I'm a pastor. So I sometimes hard for me to remember, um, the perspective of a non-pastor, but the Bible has the same instruction to me as it does to the rest of the church on attendance.
00:23:31.260so like imagine if i uh you know sunday morning was like guys you know i'm sorry i just i'm just
00:23:40.020not feeling that good today i'm not going to make it or guys hey um something came up i'm not going
00:23:45.980to be able to make church today uh or hey you know hey guys we we uh we scheduled uh an event my my
00:23:53.460family's in town so i'm just not gonna be able to make it to church on sunday like those are very
00:23:57.160common excuses for not making it to church but like i can't do that as the pastor like no so
00:24:05.880so um i mean my brother was in town my brother's in town yeah we're not going to miss church just
00:24:12.560because my brother's in town when we were you we had your family reunion thing you know with an
00:24:18.660hour and a half away from here back in september yeah and i left saturday night so i could be here
00:24:25.700Sunday morning and then went back Sunday afternoon what that communicates to your family is so
00:24:31.440important because it communicates wow Veronica prioritizes the Lord's worship the Lord's day
00:24:38.720worship above everything else and what it communicates to the kids what it communicates
00:24:46.220to the church I mean there's so much there and what you know and I'm not saying that you can't
00:24:51.140plan a uh vacation that you need to get away i'm those are occasional those are occasional
00:24:57.060you know i i will miss something when i'm at a conference or i'll miss something you know and
00:25:02.840i'll figure out a way for someone to pick up the duties that i have there but it is the rare
00:25:10.040exception it so soccer you know i saw that funny meme it's like say something that'll immediately
00:25:16.400cause a fight and it was like the guy said um uh the lord's day worship should be prioritized above
00:25:22.800soccer games or about football games or whatever right kids sports fill in the blank yeah kids
00:25:27.280sports i think yeah kids sports and so just you you what you do teaches your children
00:25:36.080what's important and so we've intentionally not signed our children up for certain
00:25:42.160programs yeah because of things that are held on Sundays yeah I guess we're not doing that well
00:25:49.580yeah because going to church is way more important than that the last thing I'll say is just giving
00:25:55.760your kids a long-term vision for the church and I think that this is something that I mean I feel
00:26:02.460like we've learned even in the last couple years we've been but giving your kids a vision that
00:26:09.980they're going to be in the same church when their kids are their age,
00:26:15.180like multi-generational church membership
00:26:19.880is something that is really difficult in our generation