Introduction: Ambassadors

1 Calling - Principle: Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God's tools to form a human soul.

2 Grace - Principle: God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you.

3 Law - Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

4 Inability - Principle: Recognizing what you are unable to do is essential to good parenting.

5 Identity - Principle: If you are not resting as a parent in your identity in Christ, you will look for identity in your children.

6 Process - Principle: You must be committed as a parent to long-view parenting because change is a process and not an event.

7 Lost - Principle: As a parent you're not dealing just with bad behavior, but a condition that causes bad behavior.

8 Authority - Principle: One of the foundational heart issues in the life of every child is authority. Teaching and modeling the protective beauty of authority is one of the foundations of good parenting.

9 Foolishness - Principle: The foolishness inside your children is more dangerous to them than the temptation outside of them. Only God's grace has the power to rescue fools.

10 Character - Principle: Not all of the wrong your children do is a direct rebellion to authority; much of the wrong is the result of a lack of character.

11 False Gods - Principle: You are parenting a worshiper, so it's important to remember that what rules your child's heart will control his behavior.

12 Control - Principle: The goal of parenting is not control of behavior, but rather heart and life change.

13 Rest - Principle: It is only rest in God's presence and grace that will make you a joyful and patient parent.

14 Mercy - Principle: No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that he desperately needs it himself.

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