Building A Legacy Of Faith In Your ChildrenSample

A Legacy Moment

Most parents, including us, feel at times that the process of leaving a healthy, vibrant, life-transforming spiritual legacy is daunting. It is a most awesome task, yet when broken down to its basic foundation, although challenging, it’s actually fairly simple.

You may feel ill-equipped to develop a spiritual legacy for your children and family, but the fact that you are reading this reading plan shows you have already begun. The number one way to leave a spiritual legacy is to simply love your children, which quite obviously you do.

We know you do. That’s why you are involved in their schools, take them to sports practices, attend decades of games or recitals, enroll in dance and gymnastic classes, arrange for music lessons, and shop at healthy food stores even when your kids seem as if they couldn’t care less about nutrition. Clearly, you love them. In fact, there isn’t anything you wouldn’t do for them. We know, because we are parents too.

What would happen if you applied the same commitment, preparation, and discipline to your children’s spiritual growth as you do to their education or athletic development?

Maybe you’re thinking, I take the kids to church, and the people at church know a lot more than I do or I haven’t read the Bible from cover to cover or I don’t have a seminary degree or I’m not a spiritual giant.

What if we told you that God’s original plan for passing on faith—leaving a spiritual legacy—rests in all parents’ hands? What if we told you that by simply talking about faith in your home you can influence your child in an amazing way? In fact, studies have shown that young people who have faith conversations in their homes are much more likely to stay in church and adhere to their faith.

If parents took developing spiritual legacies in their kids’ lives as seriously as they do school, sports, and other activities, we believe the trajectory of families would change for generations to come. The premise of this reading plan is that celebrating rites of passage moments will redefine faith formation for your kids and for your family. Celebrating those rites of passage can be simple, yet life transforming.

We often ask parents, “Were rites of passage celebrated in your home, and did your parents build a spiritual legacy?” Few respond that their parents were proactive in building legacy experiences, and even fewer tell us it was a regular part of their upbringing.

Well, we want to help change that for your family and your children.