WHEN YOUR CHILD WALKS AWAY
Why this matters for you This matters because it reshapes your posture. If the real engine is desire and not argument, then winning the argument will not bring them home. What brings someone home is the slow, costly work of the Holy Spirit in a heart, ordinarily through the presence of people who will not go away, and through a gospel spoken without flinching and without cruelty. You are not the Holy Spirit. You do not have to be. You have a different and smaller job, and we will come to it in Chapter 6.
For Reflection Q1.
If you tried to name the pain underneath your child’s drift, what would you say
out loud?
Q2.
What influences have been loudest in their life in the last five years — and what
have you noticed about the voices they trust? Q3.
What desire do you suspect is at the bottom? How do you want to pray about
it?
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