If you are a parent, you are making disciples… The question of this series is broadly “what are you discipling your kids to?”

“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. —Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV)

What do you notice from reading this scripture today?

Milestones: Marking and making occasions to celebrate and commemorate significant spiritual milestones of God’s work in the life of the family and child.

What does it mean to mark and make milestones?

We have a tendency to remember milestones in our lives. And often God calls his people to remember.

“Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever. 25 When you enter the land the Lord has promised to give you, you will continue to observe this ceremony. 26 Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ 27 And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’ ” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped. —Exodus 12:24–27 (NLT)

What else has God called his people to remember? Why?

Some milestones are unplanned and some are made.

What milestones can we make for the next generation to help in their journey?