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Grandparenting for Faith
Sharing God with the children you love the most
By Becky Sedgwick
Paperback, 144 pages
Bible Reading Fellowship, 2024
ISBN: 9781800392045
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Grandparenting brings new life and joy, and also the opportunity to walk spiritually alongside our grandchildren.
In this book, Becky Sedgwick explores how grandparents can actively encourage and equip their grandchildren to meet and know God, offering tools and skills for the journey.
Whatever your circumstances, God has positioned you to be a unique voice speaking into your grandchildren's lives, helping to nurture them into the reality of a relationship with the God who loves them.
- Painting poppies
- Truths grandparents need to know
God invented grandparents
- How children – and grandchildren – meet and know God
- What research tells us
Connection is key
- The importance of connection
Building and growing connection
- Emotional closeness
- Regular contact
- Viewing you as a source of social support
No one said it would be easy
- When your children don’t share your faith
- When you’re not allowed to talk about faith
- When contact is hard
- When your family is in pain
- When you are struggling
- God’s not finished with them yet
- The grandparents’ toolkit
Pray, pray, pray
A Bible picture of prayer
- Jairus
- Ezekiel
- The persistent widow
- Elisha
- Praying for your grandchildren
Giving them glimpses of God
- Creating windows
- Adding who God is and what he’s doing into your ordinary conversations
- Do what you do with God in front of them
- Harness the power of telling stories
- But what if I can’t?
- Keep it simple
Making sense of life
- Framing
- Explain everything
- Answer their questions
- Jumpstart conversations about God
- Lay foundations for their future
- Framing for all ages and stages
- And finally
Getting to grips with God
- Building a broad and balanced view
Unwind distorted views of God that you spot
- Distant God
- Angry God
- Unpredictable God
- Grumpy old man God
- It’s not about being an expert
Seeing God in the Bible
- The problem
- Choose Bibles and Bible story books well
- Share Bible stories well
- Help them see that the God in the Bible is still the same today
- Helping grandchildren connect and cheering them on
Moving from head to heart
- We’re all designed for connection
- Create windows into and frame how you connect with God
Help grandchildren understand what prayer is
- Unwind any wrong ideas about prayer
- Create windows into and frame how and why you pray
- Create opportunities for grandchildren to pray
Finally
Opening up the Tardis
- Create windows into and frame the power of church for you
Make visits to church count
- Do your prep
- Frame the service for them
- Do what you do with God in front of your grandchildren – as far as you can!
- Debrief with them afterwards
In it for the long haul
- Don’t journey alone
- We’ll end where we began
- Appendix
Getting grandchildren started with ‘chat and catch’
- Introducing grandchildren to ‘chat’
- Introducing grandchildren to ‘catch’
- Dealing with disappointment and discernment
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