What does it mean to organically disciple our children in and out of the home?

Rob Ventura emphasizes that discipling our children is a privilege that happens both in and out of our homes. He encourages parents to take advantage of moments of family worship and catechism which form part of organic discipleship. He acknowledges that it can often be challenging to discern when a child gets saved in a Christian home, but there is an overlap between the child's salvation and the ongoing discipleship process.

This discipleship continues in the church, where the children receive further instruction from the ministry of the word and the pastor. Ventura underscores that this is neither programmatic nor artificial, but a natural process of upbringing in the home, followed by the church's instruction. All these elements work together to create Christians through the gospel's preaching and generate disciples who ardently follow Christ.

2 Timothy 3:15 (NKJV): "And that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

Again, we're discipling our kids in the home and out of the home. And it's a privilege, especially when the kids are young, to again, gather them around the table every night have family worship catechize them and all that that's all discipleship and so moms I would encourage you to continue to do it because again you know they say you know the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world and God is often pleased to save our children right there at our tables. And it's a beautiful thing. So then out of that, the next thing is the church. And what's nice is if you've got families, heads of homes, discipling their children, preaching the gospel, hoping they get saved.

And sometimes in a Christian home, It's hard to tell exactly when a child gets saved. So there's kind of overlap between are they saved and we're discipling. And again, I realize there's overlap with that. But in that context, in the home, then we go to the church and now they're getting discipled again from the ministry of the word, from the ministry of the pastor to the children. So again, notice nothing programmatic here.

It's all organic. As moms and dads do what they need to do in the home with their children, then they go to the church and pastors do what they need to do with the sheep. And all of this works together to make Christians through the preaching of the gospel and to make disciples who follow hard after the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact as we think brother, historically about some of the greatest people who were great disciples for Christ, Most of them were raised in godly Christian homes, converted under the ministry of the word, and went out to be the greatest disciples the world has ever seen.