Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp
Week 12: Chapter 11 — Talk
Read Chapter 11 of Parenting by Paul David Tripp. See also Deuteronomy 6:6-9.
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In this chapter, Tripp takes on one of the most practical and underestimated tools God has given parents — everyday conversation — and shows why the words of a home matter far more than most parents realize.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Tripp draws on the Deuteronomy 6 vision of talking about God's commands "when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." What does that kind of saturating, everyday gospel talk look like in a modern home?
2.He argues that most parents wait for formal, serious moments to have important conversations with their children — and in doing so, miss the hundreds of informal moments that are actually more formative. Do you agree? What informal moments do you tend to miss or overlook?
3.Tripp emphasizes that the talk of a home communicates a theology — a set of beliefs about what matters, what is real, and who God is. What theology is being communicated by the most common conversations in your home right now?
a.What topics dominate the dinner table, the car, the morning rush?
b.What do those topics say about what your household most values and fears?
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