The Gospel-Centered Parent: Study Guide with Leader's Notes

Our children are precious to us, so naturally we want to protect them and guarantee their safety and happiness. We want to get it right, so our children will be all right. But we live in a broken world where things don't always (or never?) go as planned. Children make mistakes and, if they are honest, parents know they make mistakes too. So it's easy for parents to live in fear, regret, confusion, and sometime hopelessness about parenting and the children they love. Is there a better way? Can you learn to live by faith, to trust the God who made you and your children with their past, present, and future? How can Christian parents live by faith as they parent their children?

These are questions that are best answered in community. Rose Marie Miller is a mother and grandmother who is familiar with being afraid and also the power of the gospel to free you from it. She is a wise and experienced guide for your small group as you tackle these issues by looking at what God has to say about his love, forgiveness, and care for you and your child.

This 9-session small group resource will help Christian parents apply the gospel of Jesus Christ to their families. Each lesson looks at parenting through the lens of God's grace for sinners (parents and children) and gives parents a gospel-center to their parenting. Parents will learn how to live out the biblical principles of faith, repentance, and faithfulness to their calling as Christian parents with their children. Each lesson is self-contained, featuring clear teaching from biblical Scripture, and requires no extra work outside of the group setting. The self-explanatory Leader's Guide at the back of the book helps small group leaders with discussion questions and background material that clearly explain and apply the gospel truths from each lesson.

Rose Marie Miller is a Bible teacher, conference speaker, and missionary with Serge, as well as the author of From Fear to Freedom and Nothing Is Impossible with God. Rose Marie and her late husband Jack Miller worked together to plant the New Life Presybyterian Churches and begin World Harvest Mission. She has five children, twenty-four grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren and divides her time between London, England and Jenkintown, PA.

Deborah Harrell is the Overseas Educational Advisor for Serge. She is the author of the award-winning children's novel, Pinto's Hope, coauthor of What's Up? Discovering Jesus, the Gospel, and Who You REALLY Are, and contributing author of numerous articles in professional journals. She lives in North Carolina with her husband Jason and daughter Sarah.

Jack Klumpenhower is a Bible teacher and children's ministry curriculum writer with more than thirty years of experience. He is also the author of the bestselling book Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids and coauthor of What's Up? Discovering Jesus, the Gospel, and Who You REALLY Are. Jack lives with his wife and two children in Durango, Colorado.