The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family Quotes

“After all, we try hard as parents, but ultimately it’s the Holy Spirit’s job to build deep faith in our kids. (I hope you sighed in relief after you read that sentence. I did after I wrote it.) Because God is the one who ultimately sticks with us and our kids, we can trust him to walk with our families no matter what we face.”
― Kara E. Powell, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family: Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids

“Amazing grace. Grace is what makes Christianity unique. In all other religions, you earn your salvation. There’s a ladder of good works you climb to reach God’s favor. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus smashes the ladder. Through the incarnation, God comes near to us, offering a gift of salvation that, like all true gifts, isn’t dependent upon our actions, our goodness, or our ability to clean ourselves up. It’s a gift we simply receive. And continue to receive as we stumble forward toward the author and perfecter of our faith.”
― Kara E. Powell, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family: Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids

“The most important social influence in shaping young people’s religious lives is the religious life modeled and taught to them by their parents. — Christian Smith and Melissa Lundquist Denton (Smith and Denton, Soul Searching, 56)”
― Kara E. Powell, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family: Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids

“What if I’m not the Christian I want my kids to be? If you feel that way, you and I should start a club. It would be a very large club.”
― Kara E. Powell, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family: Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids

“As we interviewed parents who had developed enduring faith in their kids, one theme emerged: they made the cultivation of their own faith a priority.”
― Kara E. Powell, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family: Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids