Gospel Centered Family (Tim Chester)

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Numerous books set out to help Christian parents in the challenging mission of raising their children well—so what’s different about this one? Well, the answer’s in the title! It’s not about how the gospel fits into Christian family life, but how family life should fit into the gospel—God’s greatest purpose for this universe, achieved in Christ.

Many books aim to raise up competent, balanced parents and well-trained, well-rounded children. But Tim Chester and Ed Moll focus on families growing God-knowing, Christ-confessing, grace-receiving, servant-hearted, mission-minded believers—adults and children together.

Christian families should be about…
– not just making good citizens but also church planters, missionaries, reformers, servants and evangelists;
– not just learning about God but also showing him to others;
– not just controlling behavior but also changing the heart;
– not just parents and children, but being an integral part of the wider church family.

In twelve concise chapters, Gospel-Centered Family takes us through the major Bible principles for family life, challenging us to give up our ‘respectable’ middle-class idols, and to become the distinctively different people that God, through his gospel, calls us to be.

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Gospel Centered Family

Numerous books set out to help Christian parents in the challenging mission of raising their children well—so what’s different about this one? Well, the answer’s in the title! It’s not about how the gospel fits into Christian family life, but how family life should fit into the gospel—God’s greatest purpose for this universe, achieved in Christ.

Many books aim to raise up competent, balanced parents and well-trained, well-rounded children. But Tim Chester and Ed Moll focus on families growing God-knowing, Christ-confessing, grace-receiving, servant-hearted, mission-minded believers—adults and children together.

Christian families should be about…
– not just making good citizens but also church planters, missionaries, reformers, servants and evangelists;
– not just learning about God but also showing him to others;
– not just controlling behavior but also changing the heart;
– not just parents and children, but being an integral part of the wider church family.

In twelve concise chapters, Gospel-Centered Family takes us through the major Bible principles for family life, challenging us to give up our ‘respectable’ middle-class idols, and to become the distinctively different people that God, through his gospel, calls us to be.

Contents

    • Introduction
    • Part One: A Gospel-Centered Family
      1. Gospel-centered families
      Your family can show how great it is to live under God’s reign of love.
      2. Gospel-centered hopes
      Knowing God is far more important than getting on in life.
    • Part Two: A Grace-Centered Family
      3. Disciplining a parent’s heart
      The biggest obstacle to good discipline is our own selfish hearts.
      4. Grace for a parent’s heart
      Trying to be a good parent will crush you if you don’t embrace grace.
      5. Disciplining a child’s heart
      Changing hearts matters more than controlling behavior.
      6. Grace for a child’s heart
      Don’t train your child to be a legalist.
      7. Children as a gift
      Make sure you enjoy your children!
    • Part Three: A Word-Centered Family
      8. Living the word
      Teach your children about God in the context of everyday life.
      9. The word and other voices
      Shape what younger children watch and how older children watch.
      10. Praying the word
      Teach children to pray by praying with them.
    • Part Four: A Mission-Centered Family
      11. A bigger family
      We belong to two families.
      12. A Serving Family
      Children are not the center of the world.

About the Author:

Tim Chester is a senior faculty member of Crosslands Training and has written over 40 books. He has a PhD in theology and PgDip in history along with 25 years experience of pastoral ministry. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in rural Derbyshire where he is part of a church plant.

 

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Binding

Paperback

Book Author

Tim Chester

Page Count

96

Publisher

The Good Book Company

Trim Size

5.9 x 8.9