Is your home a Gospel Center Home? Painful Parenting Questions to ask.

by Rick Thomas

• How dose the Gospel affect you?

• Are your children seeing and experiencing your humility because of the Gospel?

• Are your children becoming more aware of the amazing truth of the Gospel?

• Ask your children how they see you. Do they see you more as a critical person or a grateful person?

• Do you live as though you deserve better?

• Do you live your life as though your worst problem in life has been resolve and the rest of your life is a gift.

• Are you more tempted to force your child to be kind?

• Ask your spouse or a close friend how they have observed you with your children, especially in the area of kindness.

• Do your children instinctively serve others?

• Without thinking, do they instantly respond with a servant's heart?

• Do your children willingly and with joy give up their rights and opportunities in order to bless and serve others?

• Do your children seek to make others great while also rejoicing when good things come to others?

• Are you modeling these things before your children? Do they see these characteristics in you?

• How often do you confess your sins to your children and ask for their forgiveness?

• Do your children readily and humbly confess their sins and seek forgiveness from those they have offended?

• Is your home characterized as a confessing and repenting home?