What does discipleship look like in the everyday moments of life?

Trent Moody explores the concept of discipleship within the mundane tasks of everyday life. Drawing from Deuteronomy 6, Moody emphasizes the responsibility of parents to disciple their children, not just in formal settings, but in everyday moments. Whether it's doing laundry, cooking, or washing dishes, these tasks become opportunities to discuss and explain the things of the Lord, investing in the lives of our children within the context of a relationship.

Moody encourages parents to see the beauty of God's handiwork everywhere and use these moments to pray for others and instill these habits in their children. Older children should be encouraged to come alongside younger ones in these tasks, fostering relationships and investing in their lives. Moody stresses that every task, no matter how mundane, is an opportunity to disciple our children, to walk with them, talk with them, and invest in their lives.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV): "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

One of the foundational passages for the Israelites and for the church today is that this discipleship model, if you will, is ultimately the responsibility of parents. And it's not just something that we're going to do on Sunday. It's not something that we're going to do on Wednesday nights. The discipleship model that we see laid out here in Deuteronomy 6 is one of as you walk along you talk and you're investing into those children. Whether you're washing dishes, whether you're working in the garden, whether you can take your child to work with you, whether you're doing laundry, cooking, whatever it is that you're doing, you explain to them and talk with them in a relationship format of the things of the Lord.

God's beauty and handiwork is everywhere. One of the things that was told to me years ago when I had really little children, As you're washing dishes, think of those people who ate off those dishes and pray for them. That's part of a discipleship. You can actually jump in there. I have some of my older children do that as well.

They'll come along beside the younger ones who are washing dishes, and they'll use that time to invest in them. They're accomplishing a task, but at the same time they're investing in a life. And those relationships are really amazing. And so, you know, as fathers, it's easy to get really busy with being task oriented, but we really need to see everything that we do as an opportunity to invest into our children and to invest that. It's a discipleship is what it is.

We're walking with them, we're talking with them. When we rise up, when we lie down, when we walk along the way, every moment of our days can be spent investing into the lives of our children. And that's really the model that God designed for us to do.