{"id":11146,"date":"2020-01-21T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2020-01-21T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:15:22","slug":"grandparenting-with-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=11146","title":{"rendered":"Grandparenting with Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;When my wife and I were asked to teach a class on gospel-centered grandparenting at our local church, we were taken a bit by surprise. It&rsquo;s not that we were against the idea. We just hadn&rsquo;t given it much thought. And I&rsquo;m a pastor!&rdquo; so writes Larry McCall in his encouraging new book. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/grandparenting-with-grace-living-the-gospel-with-the-next-generation-9781948130691?utm_source=ptautges&amp;utm_medium=blogpartners\">Grandparenting with Grace<\/a> has seven short chapters. Rather than trying to summarize each chapter, I&rsquo;ll simply include a short quote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning about Grandchildren from God<\/strong> &ndash; &ldquo;The very reason for our grandchildren&rsquo;s existence is to bring God glory (Isaiah 43:7). We have the privilege of lovingly guiding our grandchildren into a deeper knowledge of their relationship to God and helping them to make God-honoring decisions about their relationships and responsibilities as they walk through life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Grandchild Needs a Savior<\/strong> &ndash; &ldquo;Our grandchildren were born not only in God&rsquo;s image, but they were also born in our image&hellip;.Understanding our grandchildren&rsquo;s need for salvation can help us to point them to their need for Jesus every day&mdash;for forgiveness and the power to follow him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Developing God-Honoring Relationships with My Grandchildren&rsquo;s Parents<\/strong> &ndash; &ldquo;Some grandparents have overstepped the bounds of what it means to be biblical grandparents, wrongly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen my wife and I were asked to teach a class on gospel-centered grandparenting at our local church, we were taken a bit by surprise. It\u2019s not that we were against the idea. We just hadn\u2019t given it much thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[1193,1613],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-grandparenting","tag-larry-mccall","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}