Then do you treat kids as if they’re already saved or as if they aren’t? Sometimes when I urge kids to believe, I’ll acknowledge the difference. I’ll tell them they may need to believe for the first time or they may need to believe more deeply to grow. But usually I talk to church kids as if they’re already saved. If they’re part of the church family we ought to prayerfully expect God to be working in them, even if we know it’s possible they actually aren’t converted. For example, take Nicole, the girl I shared the God Report Card with in our last chapter. I spoke to her as if she were an
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