What do you do when your child asks a question that leaves you scrambling for an answer?
In this episode, Anna and Jess revisit one of Parenting for Faith’s most-loved tools for handling tricky faith questions with confidence. Using the simple four-step framework of What do you think? What do we know? What do we not know? How do I handle it?, they explore three challenging questions that many children and teenagers ask:
Why does God let bad things happen?
Why doesn’t God answer every prayer?
Why are Christians sometimes hypocrites?
Rather than trying to have all the answers, this conversation encourages parents and carers to create space for honest exploration, model a faith that can wrestle with uncertainty, and help children discover that God is present even in the questions we cannot fully resolve.
Links:
BRF Online - https://brfonline.org.uk/pages/parenting-for-faith
Offering to be a ‘guinea pig’ for our Five Key Tools Course - https://forms.office.com/e/bksHWjVjvM
4 steps model explanation video and postcard - https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/questions/
Telling kids and teens the whole story- https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/telling-the-whole-story-facebook-live/
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