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The Speakeasy

Teaching Your Kids the Gospel | BJ Jenkins | Episode 333

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Speaker, songwriter, and children’s author BJ Jenkins joins Blake to discuss the challenges and joys of teaching children about the Bible. BJ shares her journey from a music evangelist to writing books and creating curriculum aimed at simplifying deep biblical concepts for kids. She emphasizes the importance of modeling faith at home, encouraging parents to actively demonstrate practices like prayer and Bible reading. She highlights creative methods, such as prayer tents and prophetic art, to teach kids how to connect with God and recognize His voice. She also discusses the value of stillness and intentionality in nurturing a child’s spiritual life. Ultimately, this conversation inspires parents to make faith an accessible and engaging part of their family’s daily rhythm. In this episode, you’ll be able to… Discover practical ways to teach your children about their identity in Christ and God's promises. Understand the importance of walking alongside your kids in their spiritual growth while trusting God to fill in the gaps. Gain insight into combating the unique spiritual and cultural challenges facing this generation with faith and intentional parenting. BJ is the author of The Believer’s Series for Children – available on her website now! To connect with BJ… Website: bjjenkinsministries.com Learn more about Lumen, Nutrafol, and Hiya Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a misfit media network

0:11.4

production. I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have

0:16.9

the coolest conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians

0:21.8

are still not sure we're allowed to talk about. So if you've been looking for a place to land

0:26.3

with all your crap and for someone to just be honest about what it looks like to walk through

0:31.2

this Christian life while you've come to the right place, pull up a seat, pop in your headphones

0:35.9

and tune out your kids, and come hang out with me

0:38.6

and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.

0:49.0

All right, you guys, welcome to another episode of the show. I, on a personal level, am so excited about this conversation

0:55.6

before we started recording. I was telling BJ, like, this is for me, this conversation is for me

1:01.7

and my family, as well as for the rest of you. Like, you're just lucky I'm sharing it with y'all

1:07.9

because we are going to talk about sharing the Bible with your kids.

1:13.7

And I know for myself and my audience, this is something that we want to do and we want to do

1:19.5

well, but it can just be such a daunting thing. And it's something that BJ is really

1:25.1

passionate about and educates on. And so I'm so excited to

1:29.7

welcome you to the show today. Thank you, Blake. It's so, so glad to be here today.

1:34.2

So I would love to know how this becomes something that you love and we're passionate about. And then

1:41.4

I want to talk about kind of how you're walking that out. But was this

1:45.0

like through the process of raising your own children or after the fact where you got just lit this

1:50.4

fire on teaching children the Bible and how we can do this well? Yeah. Well, it didn't start like that.

1:57.4

I can tell you that. I graduated from college as a music evangelist. And I traveled

2:02.4

and sang for like 30 years. Oh, wow. You know, music evangelism, lead people to the word.

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