Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul David Tripp
Week 15: Chapter 14 — Rest
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Tripp closes his fourteen principles with an invitation — perhaps the most countercultural of all — to rest: to stop striving, to stop carrying what was never yours to carry, and to trust the God who is working in your home.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Tripp ends with rest rather than a call to greater effort. Why does he make this choice, and what does it say about the kind of book he has been writing all along?
2.He describes the restlessness of many parents — the constant second-guessing, the late-night worry, the never-quite-good-enough feeling. What is the root cause of parenting restlessness, according to Tripp, and how does the gospel address it?
3.Tripp distinguishes between rest as passivity (giving up) and rest as trust (releasing control to God). What does active, faith-filled rest actually look like in the day-to-day experience of parenting?
a.What would you have to believe about God to genuinely rest in the middle of an unsettling season with your child?
b.What would you have to stop believing, or stop doing, to make that rest possible?