The Boundary
Week 4 | Personal Integrity
Dean Pollard
May 7, 2023

Rock #1 - The Parent is the primary disciple maker

Rock #2 - Getting the Gospel Right

Rock #3 - Understanding Spiritual Growth

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV): Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Rock #4 Personal Integrity

1 Timothy 4:12 (ESV): Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Philippians 3:17 (ESV): Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Philippians 4:9 (ESV): What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

  • Modeling is not about perfection, it is about trying–wanting–to learn and live the way of Jesus

3 Reasons why modeling repentance is important for your kids:

1) Mom and Dad are sinners

2) Mom and Dad need grace

3) Repenting is normal and its expected behavior

John Wesley - “My mother taught me more about Jesus than all the theologians on earth.”

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV): Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.