Meredith Miller - Woven

2023-11-15

How do we create a space for our children to get to know God in a way that focuses on trust instead of rigid rules? Brent talks with Meredith Miller about her new book from Worthy Publishing called ‘Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From’. Meredith has over 20 years experience in children’s ministry and curriculum. In 2019 she and her husband Curtis started Pomona Valley Church – a church on Zoom that wants to ‘live the one anothers, neighbor well, and do justice. And eat’. For the 5 years prior to that, she was Curriculum Dire...

How do we create a space for our children to get to know God in a way that focuses on trust instead of rigid rules?

Brent talks with Meredith Miller about her new book from Worthy Publishing called ‘Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From’.

Meredith has over 20 years experience in children’s ministry and curriculum. In 2019 she and her husband Curtis started Pomona Valley Church – a church on Zoom that wants to ‘live the one anothers, neighbor well, and do justice. And eat’. For the 5 years prior to that, she was Curriculum Director for the Children’s Ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. Since 2007, she’s also been involved with the work of the Fuller Youth Institute.

(1:40) Why our young people think of their faith as legalistic;
(3:45) Trust based parenting;
(5:00) Weaving our webs of faith;
(6:20) Christian subculture;
(7:00) Our children’s social media world;
(10:25) How do we introduce our children to God?
(12:30) Spiral learning;
(14:10) Faith conversations with our children;
(15:45) Moralism in our Bible teaching;
(17:30) God centred story telling;
(22:45) Encouraging children to pray.

Links mentioned in this episode:

/www.amazon.com/Woven-Nurturing-Faith-Your-Doesnt/dp/1546004351

meredithannemiller.substack.com/about

www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/hachette-nashville/worthy-books/

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