Giving Your Kids An Identity In Christ, Not Gender with Jonathan Holmes

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeremy is joined today by Jonathan Holmes to talk about why identity is such a hot topic today, and what it means for us as Christian parents of kids facing enormous cultural pressure.

How do we give our kids a gospel-centric identity in Christ? Do we need to spend more time and effort building a family identity to combat peer-pressured identity formation? How can the church start to take back ground on gender, identity, and the Christian sexual ethic?

These topics are hard to talk about, because so many people want to focus solely on the exceptions to the rule, and forgo talking about the general teaching, so it was a blessing to wrestle deeply with these issues with Jonathan.

This conversation needs to be happening way more often, especially for those of us with children being impacted by an outside world heavily influenced by the enemy.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:38 Why is "identity" such an important topic today?

4:32 Identity in the gospel

10:06 Peers vs family in the identity-formation process

14:17 Practical tips to ground your children in a Christ-centered identity

19:30 Can family identity cure a lack of identity culturally?

30:07 Competing ideas about gender, and how the Church should respond

35:47 Family vs individual consequences of "gender identity"

41:57 The narrow sexual ethic of the Bible

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Resources Mentioned:

Fieldstone Counseling

Grounded in Grace by Jonathan Holmes

Family Plan Calendar

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