We are called to disciple our children in the way they should go, but how? Today we’re going to address what discipleship looks like in a tech world, and how we can all do it starting wherever we are today.

Guiding verses today:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[fn] 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

verses to encourage us as we love our kiddos as parents, journeying with them and pointing them to God’s purpose for them (also known as discipline)

• Proverbs 3:11-12: “My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, or the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
• Hebrews 12:6: “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
• Jesus in talking about the vines John 15:2: “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”
• Revelation 3:19: “Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.”

Helpful Tech for Discipleship:

• awesome children’s Bible: The Jesus Storybook Bible, by Sally Lloyd Jones
• audio book: The Jesus Storybook Bible
• devotional to do with kids: Indescribable, by Louie Giglio
• Bible content and lessons: The Bible Project
• great overviews like how to read the bible
• insights on books that can be tough to understand, like Psalms
• helpful guides for reading the New Testament

If you use Veggie Tales, use their stuff from before 2012. Dreamworks acquired Big Ideas (the company that creates Veggie Tales) that year and their more recent stuff has just been cartoons starring vegetables.