Faith Begins at Home by Mark Holmen

Author:Mark Holmen [Holmen, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family—Religious life
ISBN: 9781441266422
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Are Parents Doing the Work?

Sadly, statistics show that when it comes to impressing faith on our children through faith-talk, we have some serious work to do. Search Institute conducted a nationwide survey of more than 11,000 participants from 561 congregations across 6 different denominations. The results were revealing:

• What percentage of teenagers have a regular dialog with their mother on faith/life issues? 12%

• What percentage of teens have a regular dialog with their father on faith/life issues? 5%

• What percentage of teenagers have experienced regular reading of the Bible and devotions in the home? 9%

• What percentage of youth have experienced a service-oriented event with a parent as an action of faith? 12%7

Researcher George Barna confirmed these numbers in his research for the book Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions. “We discovered that in a typical week, fewer than 10 percent of parents who regularly attend church with their kids read the Bible together, pray together (other than at meal times) or participate in an act of service as a family unit. Even fewer families—1 out of every 20—have any type of worship experience together with their kids, other than while they are at church during a typical month.”8

Faith is not something that can be taught; faith is something that must be caught.

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