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“Discipleship is not microwavable. It is a crock-pot recipe that requires time to take root and marinate.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“Our purpose as parents is clearly defined here: we are to make disciples. That includes our children. I’d argue that, for parents, our children are our priority in making disciples. The Great Commission begins in the home.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“One of the greatest mistakes we make as parents is that we confuse connecting with a moment and connecting with our child. Moments are incredible, and they can be the tracks upon which connection runs, but connection is so much more than a space in time. We should strive to create moments but be wary that we aren’t exchanging moments with connection.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“The Sabbath is probably the most ignored commandment in our culture today by well-meaning Christ-followers.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“As parents, we make the most difference in our children’s lives by giving them the greatest treasure we have: time. But we must choose to spend this currency rather than store it up and save it for “someday.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“But when education is institutionalized, there is always a narrative framework by which educators work. We must again ask the question, who controls this narrative?”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids

“what faith they do have tends to be a buffet of preferential beliefs rather than foundational orthodoxy.”
― Chris Swain, Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids