For any Christian parent who has a child with an unrepentant heart, those are the questions that keep us awake at night, the questions that tear at our heart, the questions we sometimes dare not utter to other believers. “We need to acknowledge the heartache of parents with a child who has strayed from the faith,” said Jessica Thompson, who wrote Give Them Grace with her mother, Elyse Fitzpatrick. “We need to remember that if anyone knows the heartache of someone turning away, it is Christ. We also need to not judge them and to recall that for all of our parenting mistakes and failures and sins against our children, we’ve been forgiven.”
What can we do as parents when we have a child whose heart is hard or against the things of God? Here are eight things to think about as we relate to those kids.
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