Born To Believe (1)

Victory Temple Chantilly's Podcast

MAR. 11, 2025

Born to believe (1)

"Train up a child in the way he should go." Pr 22:6

Training your child is both challenging and rewarding. By shaping their underlying belief system, you help their developing brain establish permanent neural pathways that will guide their moral and spiritual growth.

Neuroscientists Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, authors of Born to Believe, tell us the most crucial years are from age seven to ten. That's when your child has the greatest propensity to understand the concept of a God they can't see, feel, or hear.

What an ideal opportunity! Newberg and Waldman also suggest that our most effective tool for belief building at this stage is storytelling, not preaching or moralizing. Stories that incorporate godly principles, moral behaviors, courage, faith, love, compassion, and forgiveness are welcomed, easily digested ingredients for building Christian character. Storytelling was how God instructed the Israelites to teach their children His ways and Word. Stories of

• Adam and Eve,
• Noah,
• Daniel,
• Esther,
• Samson,
• Ruth, and David;
• of Christ's birth,
• life,
• death, and
• resurrection; of Jesus walking on the sea,
• raising the dead, and
• feeding the five thousand,

stir the hearts, interest, and imagination of young children and impart enduring, life-changing principles! In fact, studies show that the belief systems of adults are powerfully influenced by stories they heard growing up. Implant stories that will become the underpinning for their character and the basis for a lifetime of faith. As a parent, it's your job to encourage and stimulate their developing brain toward godly beliefs, decisions, and lifestyle!

Born to believe Ingredients for building Christian character.

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