Growing Kids with God’s Word

Growing Kids with God’s Word

Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell

Guest: Terry Broburg

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 7/14/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Jamie Mitchell:

Well, good afternoon. Welcome again to another edition of Stand in the Gap Today. I’m your host, Jamie Mitchell, the director of church culture at the American Pastors Network. I know it’s been reported in the past year and especially in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder that Bible sales were up throughout the country. We praise God that people are buying God’s word. Yet when you dig a little deeper, the facts tell us that Bible reading, Bible engagement and Bible study is really on the decline. Lifeway reports that fewer than one in three churchgoers read the Bible daily. Early research often cites only 16% of church attenders read the Bible every day. And even more troubling, the study stated that only 17% of Americans say they have read the entire Bible. 48% say they’ve read half of it. People might be buying the Bible, but the fact is they’re not reading it.

And if that’s the case with adults, what about kids? Several ministry and church studies over the last decade have shown many Christian parents rely primarily on the church to teach their kids the Bible. Regular family devotions, Bible reading in the home is on a decline and significant percentage of Christian parents admit that they feel unprepared to disciple their kids spiritually. The American Bible Society’s state of the Bible recently described that parents are open but overwhelmed, noting that modern parenting pressures often crowd out intentional Bible engagement with their kids. This is a sad reality, friends. If parents are relying on the church to get God’s word into their kids, I can tell you it’s probably not happening. Over the past 20 years we’ve seen Bible engagement substituted for fun and games in many church children’s ministries. The belief is that telling kids Bible stories, expecting them to memorize the word of God is well old fashioned, not hip.

And if they don’t make church fun, well, maybe their parents and their family will check out and not come back. Listen, that’s just unacceptable. And it’s threatening to the future spiritual life of the next generation. We need to reclaim and reignite a passion to teaching God’s word and getting it into the hearts of our kids and planted into the minds, those young minds and hearts. And I think the Bible is very clear about our responsibility. Deuteronomy six said, “These words I’ve commanded you and they shall be on your hearts. Teach them diligently to your children.” Psalm 78, “We will not hide them from their children. We will tell them to the next generation of God’s glorious deeds.” Ecclesiastes says this, “Remember your creator in the days of your youth.” And even Paul reminded young Timothy that from a child you were acquainted with the sacred writings.

I think you get the point. And today on Stand of the Gap, we want to look at this issue of teaching God’s word to your kids, whether in church or in your home and to give you some practical ideas. And with me today is Terry Broberg. He is the global children’s ministry coordinator for Walkthrough the Bible Ministries. Terry loves kids. He loves God’s word and he’s dedicated his life to connect those two God’s words with children. Terry, welcome to Stand in the Gap today.

Terry  Broberg:

Hello, Jamie. It’s a privilege to be with you and your listeners today.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, Terry, I want people to understand your heart and passion. And so here’s a simple question. Why kids? Usually we are drawn to minister to adults, maybe young people, but not many are called to teach and train kids. How did that happen? What is it about ministering and getting God’s word into kids’ lives that have motivated you and you’ve dedicated your life to it?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, I grew up going to church and learned to serve the Lord at a very young age. I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior and Lord as a child and I believe that its best way to raise children is in a family setting. I graduated from college as a school teacher. Went to work at a Christian school and found out that’s where God wanted me to serve. After nearly 40 years, I moved to my current role at Walk Through the Bible. The reason I think this is important is because today there are two billion children around the world under the age of 14, one out of every four people. They truly are the future. I love the God. I love the Bible. I love children. So I work to bring them all together.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, I’ve heard this and I think it’s a misnomer, but I’ve heard this that if you teach kids the Bible, you get too serious with them, you expect much out of them, it’ll turn them off. They’ll get bored. But my guess is that you’ve seen the direct opposite. Are kids really open to God’s word? Are they sponges? Do they get excited? Do they get bored by God’s word? What’s the truth when it comes to kids and God’s word?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, as I’ve traveled around the world sharing with many teachers and children, I’ve noticed a lot of it has to do with how we teach them. If we are engaging, presenting the word of God in a very meaningful way, the kids respond. They love to hear a good story. They love to have fun while they’re learning truth. And we can provide that for them if we just plan and work accordingly.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, that right there I think is the key is that we should never, and I think this is important and I got to ask myself this question. We should never look at opportunities teaching kids as kind of the second level of importance or kind of a leftover thing to do. When we talk about impacting children, we’re touching the future. We need people, don’t we, to get excited about ministering to kids because of the future impact that’s being done there?

Terry  Broberg:

I agree. I think one of the challenges we face is that busy people don’t take the time to really prepare their materials, their lessons like they could. And that leaves the lessons not doing the job very well. And so now new curriculums all across the United States are full of video instruction instead of personal teaching and sharing from one’s own life, how God has impacted them.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, one of the things we did with our church a number of years ago is we found the women and especially the women, they were really good at this, but we had some men too that were really good storytellers and we kind of made them the traveling storyteller from class to class to class to bring the word of God alive. We’ve got to change maybe some of the ways we do things, but man, I’m telling you, like you just said, kids love a great story. And friends, there is nothing there’s no book. There is no book in the world that has the kind of stories that can engage kids like the Bible. You know friends, statistic tell us that 70 to 80% of people who pray to receive Christ will do it before, listen, before their 18th birthday. However, that doesn’t mean that they are fully discipled.

And in recent years, we’ve seen many of those young people in their later years walk away from Christ. What tells me is they need to get God’s word deeper, deeper into their hearts and allow the Holy Spirit to use that. Now listen, when we come back, I want Terry who’s been teaching kids around the globe to speak on the dynamics of learning when working with kids. You don’t teach kids the same way you teach adults. And so we need to be intentional about that. Don’t go anywhere. We’re trying to encourage you in the home of the church to teach God’s word to kids. Well, welcome back to Stand in the Gap. We’re discussing teaching God’s word to kids today and why it’s important. Terry Broberg from Walk Through the Bible is someone who has taught kids around the globe. He’s with us and we want to lean into this.

Listen, if you’re a parent, you need to know how to teach your kids. If you are in church, maybe you get tapped and helped out in the second grade class or the fourth grade class. That’s how I cut my teeth in ministry teaching fifth grade boys. But we want to learn a little bit. And teaching kids is different than teaching adults. Terry, can you share with our listeners, what are the learning dynamics that are unique when teaching children?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, teaching children can be a lot of fun, but also quite challenging at times. They have very short attention spans. They think very factually or concretely and love to move. Therefore, our lessons need to be developed of age appropriately for them. I think every lesson should have three parts. First, teach to the head, give them the knowledge, the content they need to know, but we need to then touch their heart, evoke their emotions so they can respond to the truth they’ve learned. And finally, to use their hands. We need to do action, not just learn Bible truth, but we need to put it into action. Because when we do that, the truth becomes part of our way of life. And so we teach to the head, the heart and the hands, and we reach the child.

Jamie Mitchell:

This is why when you’re working with kids, I remember years ago learning the phrase a teachable moment because that’s what a lot of times when we do teach kids, like you said here, you said about that they have a short attention span. You can’t talk to a kid for 20, 30, 40 minutes at a time. You really need to break that down into bite size pieces. Is that how when you are teaching kids the way you’re thinking about communicating God’s word?

Terry  Broberg:

Yes, in many respects. The lessons that I usually teach are much shorter passages of scripture than we would ever teach to an adult. And we take it and we actually make sure that it’s short enough that we can spend as much time discussing it and applying it to our lives as we do hearing the word itself. Many curriculums used to just have a huge passage of scripture and then you never got around to what does it do? What’s it mean for me today? What do I do with it? And so we need to balance the content and the application out. Well,

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, many have said that really what needs to happen early on with kids is they’ve got to get the content. They’ve got to get some of the stories. They need to know who Moses is. They need to know what he did. They need to know who David is. It’s that content that we’re laying inside the mind of a kid is really what we’re trying to build on for the future. That’s why it’s so important to start downloading some of this information and to be very, very intentional. Now, one of the things I’ve noticed when speaking with kids is that they take everything literally. I mean, I think that’s what you meant by their concrete learners. If you say to a kid, you need to take Jesus into your heart, they may try to figure out how he’s going to fit inside that small little chest cavity of theirs.

So how do you communicate the complex theological and biblical concepts that we have in the Bible to kids? And how do you know if they’re really understanding it?

Terry  Broberg:

It’s a great question. And I think I’ve heard the same story about little boy crying out in the middle of the class. How can he fit inside of me? So we really do need to put the cookie jar on the bottom shelf for the kids. But the Bible is a research book for all ages. It contains God’s very words for our use and growth. So when we teach children, it requires us using simple concepts and simple language. And as the children get older, then we add in more complex things. But the best method I’ve seen and what I personally use is to tell Bible stories in compelling ways. I like to use some of the new Bible translations to help do that. There’s accurate and they use a simplified vocabulary so children can understand the concept better.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, Terry, I know we live in a highly technical world. We have things like videos and we have things like PowerPoint and all those things. And I use all of those tools, but there is something about a flannel graph board that kids really love. Their eyes fix on it. They see the figure of a shepherd and sheep and we see them moving on that. That’s important as well. They love to see things visually and lock into it. And that’s all a part of that learning process that kids go through, isn’t it?

Terry  Broberg:

Very much so. And in fact, there are some places where I know where flannel graphs are coming out of the closet and being used to have variety. And we grew up seeing a flannelgraph lesson every single Sunday. But nowadays, if you break it out and show it to the kids periodically, it captures their attention again in a new, fresh way. I do think that it’s so important that we remember that the best visual aid is ourself. All these other props and tools and videos and things, they’re all helpful, but we need to be spot on in our teaching methodology and the way we do things because that is the connection point for the relationship that long-term growth takes place with.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, speaking to adults that I do mostly today, adults want you to quote unquote, get to the point. Tell me the application. Tell me what this means. Tell me what I need to do. And we assume a lot of things when we teach adults that they know the content. But when we’re talking about kids, I remember in an educational psychology class I took in college that the teacher really drove home the importance of rote memory. That children, especially young people especially, they need to hear facts, hear facts over and over again and put those facts to memory and not necessarily run to application that kids need that rote level learning. Have you found that to be true with dealing with kids like you have around the globe?

Terry  Broberg:

One of my hopes with every lesson I teach is that when it’s done, the children will know the story that we’ve talked about so well that they can go tell it to someone else, their family or their friends. So we’re very intentional in our storytelling methodology to retell the story a couple different ways and have a lot of fun with the children practicing and acting out the story so that they internalize the whole story, not necessarily just a specific verse. I believe in Bible memorization, but I also believe that passages of scripture can be actually learned in story form. And for much of the world, that’s the way they learn anyway. So we work real hard at doing that. Terry,

Jamie Mitchell:

It’s interesting you just said that a much of the world because a lot of what you do, and we’re going to talk about this a little later, is your work as a global director for Walk through the Bible. But let me ask you the question in the last couple of minutes we have here at this segment. Are kids in America different than kids in the Philippines? Kids in Kenya? Kids in Western Europe? Kids in Russia? When you have ministered and taught to kids, are they different in other places in the world other than maybe language and some cultural issues?

Terry  Broberg:

That’s a great question. One of the challenges we have in America is that our kids have so much and we give them so many opportunities. They go to dance lessons, music lessons, art class. They’re on sports teams, on and on and on. And they just are trained to kind of just go all the time. And around the world, the kids sometimes have more smiles on their faces than I see here in our country, but they do it because they’re just living life day by day, moment by moment. They don’t have a long-term goal. They’re trying to just make it through life and survive. So I do think there’s a difference around the world, but when the bottom line is all shook out, every child is looking for someone to love them, someone to provide for them and someone to really interact with them. And so they’re having fun playing soccer out in the field with a bunch of rags tied together with a piece of tape.

And so there is a lot of similarities to children, but we need to help them know that the best fun, the best source of life is really found in Jesus Christ.

Jamie Mitchell:

Amen. Amen. I mean, there’s two words, friends, that I want you to pick up today and that is the word intentionality and internalization. We need to be intentional in how we teach kids. And then we’ve got to help them internalize God’s word. We need to be wise. We need to be strategic when we’re teaching and discipling our kids. But we also have to have the confidence that God’s word doesn’t return void. If we get it into their hearts and mind, the Holy Spirit will do the work of application and transformation. When we come back, Terry will share some practical ways to share God’s word with kids today and bulk up your teaching ability. Maybe bring to life those family devotions. And maybe if you’re teaching in your church, really get you fired up for next Sunday. Stay with us as we are going to get God’s word into kids.

Thank you for sticking with us, but if you are just joining us, you’ve chosen a great day because today we’re talking about kids. And if there are kids in your orbit, you want to lean in and listen. Terry Broberg from Walk Through the Bible is sharing about teaching God’s word to our kids. Terry, I want to get really practical. Probably one of the greatest classes that I took in Bible college that has helped me with teaching adults was a class called Pedagogy for Kids and Youth. Learning how to teach kids and youth. It just really brought to life how to teach even adults. Can you give us four or five ways, practically speaking, that can get God’s word into the hearts and the minds of kids that parents and teachers listening today could really benefit from?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, a lot of this is just common sense, but we need to slow down and think about how we interact with our children. As I mentioned earlier, age appropriate Bible stories are key. Every time we teach, there should be a practical application that children can go do right away. Here are some things that I think are very helpful. We need to be consistent and use repetition as we model our lives and our faith for the children. We all have heard this before. Faith is developed by hearing God’s word. Then learning Bible verses and age appropriate Bible stories. Seeing God’s word lived out in others and doing that consistently really makes a difference. And then doing God’s work. We need to let the children become involved in doing things that are serving the Lord. See that as a way of life. We learn so much by doing things.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, if you can, I don’t want to put you on the spot, but I’m just thinking if there’s a common Bible story that you have taught that you think that really would help. If you were teaching something about Jesus, what Bible story have you taught in the last number of months about Jesus that you could just share some insights with our listening audience of how you then communicated that story about the savior?

Terry  Broberg:

Sure. I teach a whole bunch of stories about Jesus. One of my favorites is actually to talk about when Jesus was resting after a busy time of ministry and some parents brought their children to see Jesus. And the disciples thinking they were defending and helping Jesus said, “No, go away. Jesus doesn’t have time for you. ” And then Jesus heard this and he became indignant, it says in the scripture saying, “Let the children come to me. ” And then he put his arms on them. He touched them and he blessed them. And when I teach this story, I love to actually stop and retell it about three times. And each time we ask questions about the characters in the story as we do so. So for example, what were the disciples feeling when these parents came up? They were feeling very protective of Jesus. They got in trouble for trying to protect Jesus.

What did the disciples learn in that situation? What did the parents learn in that situation? And if you were a child and your mom and dad took you to go see this important teacher, how would you feel? How would you feel when people got upset? How would you feel when Jesus touched you and blessed you? And so you help them step into the story and then that really does sink much deeper into their heart.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, as you just were talking about that, how many times do kids interrupt us? And it seems like they’re bothering us. We say things like, “Hey, kids could be seen and not heard.” But in that story, you never bother Jesus. You never interrupt Jesus. Jesus is there all the time. And for a kid, they would grab hold of that because they have experienced even that with the adults that they connect with. I love that. And see, that’s where a little bit of intentionality and thinking through at a child’s level, the Bible can come alive in a kid’s life. Terry, when I was a kid, Bible memorization and actually hearing Bible stories, the contents of those stories, that was the priority. But nowadays, I don’t want to be too critical, but nowadays, especially in churches, the mention of the Bible is almost something you’re not supposed to do.

And we run again to application and we minimize content. Why is this happening? And why is it a good idea to get kids to actually memorize the Bible?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, it’s vital. When you think about how much goes on in our lives during the week, that one hour of Sunday school or that one and a half hour on Wednesday night is just a fraction of the information that children are seeing and being exposed to. They’re being discipled all the time. How much of that time is being discipled about the Lord and his word? So I just think it’s really, really important. All children’s Bible curriculums that I’ve seen and look at, they really are designed to help disciple children as followers of Jesus. But there’s so many different methods they use. Sometimes it’s hard to sort it all out. But research definitely supports that the attention spans are getting shorter and we don’t use our memory nearly as much as we used to because we could pull a phone out of our pocket and have the world’s knowledge right there in our hand.

So I think there is great value in what you talked about, Jamie, of how do we help them learn these principles and passages of scripture so that they are in place in their life as they interact with the world around them? I think learning Bible stories is so valuable because they’re full of principles to live by and they give examples of real people learning to live by faith. To help children apply the Bible in their lives, I think we need to, one, have great relationships with them. They’re not just someone to be seen and not heard. They’re someone to instruct and model godly living to. Have the children actively learn the Bible story. The more they step into the story, the more they feel part of the story, the more they’re going to remember and hang onto. And then I do think application is very important, but I would not say it’s the sole reason we do lessons like you mentioned earlier.

I think we need to have at least fifty fifty content and application. Because if we fill our kids up with information but they don’t know how to apply it in their daily life, we’re kind of giving them a less than best opportunity to really be like Jesus who wants them to be. And then I also feel like the scripture, it’s written for children as well as adults and they need to discover the applications in these stories that are applicable in their life today. And so we need to really pray and prepare as we put our lessons together so that the Holy Spirit can do the work in the lives of the children. It’s not how good a teacher I am. It’s how good a helper I am to the Holy Spirit who is teaching these kids. And as we do that, they can learn so much.

I think of Samuel and being called out in the middle of the night and the voice of the Lord was not common in that time, but God chose to speak to a boy and say, “You are going to serve me as a prophet.” And our children can learn and do those things too because I think there is no such thing as a junior Holy Spirit. Let’s pray and allow them to speak to the kids because they can grow tremendously in their faith if we just expose them to God’s word in the right way.

Jamie Mitchell:

I love that. The brain is a muscle. If we don’t exercise, if we don’t use it, especially when they’re younger, if we don’t utilize and help kids remember. Back in the day, I’m going to date myself, OR6243062430, that was my father’s business phone number. I’m 67 years old today. And as a kid, I remember it because we put it to memory. But today, like you said, kids have phones. They don’t even remember phone numbers. They don’t remember their own phone number. And we need to help our parents and teachers understand that our kids need to develop that muscle and get memory. Terry, we’ve got about a minute left. Quick question. What if a kid isn’t truly Born again. Are we wasting our time teaching them the Bible or are we in a pre-salvation mode, getting God’s word into their hearts and minds? Some may say, “Don’t bother teaching them.

They’re not Christian to begin with. ” That’s not true, is it?

Terry  Broberg:

I don’t follow that thinking at all because I believe that for many people it’s the process of the sower. Someone’s planting the seed, someone’s fertilizing, someone’s throwing a little water on it, and the Holy Spirit is the one that brings them to the point of conversion. And so we just need to do our part getting them ready to hear God’s word, not necessarily thinking we have to close the deal every lesson. We’re part of the process of God speaking into their life. And I think we should be willing to talk to anybody about God’s word.

Jamie Mitchell:

Amen. Amen. As one of my Bible college teachers once said, you can’t get to application and transformation without some information. And it’s the same with kids. We must get back to laying the foundation of putting God’s word into their hearts. It is most relevant in the most creative ways and not watering down any of the stories. Let God’s word do its work in our kids’ hearts. Now don’t go anywhere. I want Terry to share what’s happening around the world. He’s teaching kids globally. Let’s talk about that in just a few minutes. Stay with us here at Stand of the Gap today. Well, the hour has moved fast as always. Terry Broberg, the global children’s coordinator for Walk Through the Bible Ministry, he says our guest. Terry, I want to get a two for one deal out of you. I just don’t want to talk about how to teach kids, but I also want to get a quick report and I would be foolish to let you get away and not share what God is doing around the globe when it comes to reaching kids.

I know that Walk Through the Bible sees that one of its main focuses of their ministry is to touch the next generation. Why has Walk Through the Bible made this a key result area of their ministry? And what kinds of fruit are you seeing by touching kids with God’s word around the world?

Terry  Broberg:

Well, thank you for asking about our ministry, Jamie. I really appreciate it. Walk through the Bible has been engaging people in God’s word for about 50 years. And many, many years ago we started teaching children in churches kind of just as a compliment to the adult ministry. But seven years ago, it was decided that our ministry could have a broader outreach by placing more emphasis on children’s ministry. And so over the past six years, we’ve developed a team of leaders all around the world and then they’re working with the people around them in the countries near them. And we have touched seven million children in the last six years. And so it’s really special what God has been doing.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, I’m again going to date myself back in the mid ’90s when Phil Tuttle, who was just the faculty dean at the time, recruited me to become a walk through the Bible instructor. He said to me, he said, “Hey, we’re rolling out here soon the children’s version of Walk through the Old Testament, Walk Through the New Testament.” And he said, “It would be great if you came on and not just learned how to do the adults, but learned how to do the kids version as well.” And so for a number of years, I didn’t do as many kids, but I did do it from time to time and then my wife began to do it. And what’s interesting is my son who is now 34, 35 years old, he’s a dad himself. He got saved coming with me to a Walk Through the Bible seminar and watching me and then asking me about my Walkthrough the Bible overheads years ago.

So Walkthrough’s children ministry and speaking to children have been impacting kids here in North America for years, but it’s now translating and a big effort when it comes to really impacting the world through kids. Terry, if God’s word is impacting kids around the globe, why would we not think that the Bible could be and should be impacting kids here in America? Are there cultural challenges that we need to overcome when it comes to reaching kids with the Bible around the globe?

Terry  Broberg:

That’s really a very specific question about a very great need. I was reading the other day in the book of Amos. I read all through the Bible every year. And as an Amos chapter eight verse 11 says, “God declares that day is coming when there will be a famine throughout the land, a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.” Now this was written obviously to the ancient Northern kingdom of Israel, but I think the principle behind this verse is still so applicable today. We have so much as Americans and our culture emphasizes wealth, fun, personal freedom, but we really need to bring the Bible to our nation because it is having a spiritual famine. The gospel is the good news. It tells how Jesus can meet our personal needs. Our identity is found when we submit to God’s call on our lives and allow him to be our Lord and Savior.

Just like you talked about your son being exposed to God’s word of that event and accepting Christ. This is what we need to do too. I really believe that we can help our children learn truth by sharing God’s word with them in fun and engaging ways. But this requires on our part as the adults, intentional Christ-like living, putting the Bible in the center of our lives and then we can model and share so the Bible can be in the center of our children’s lives.

Jamie Mitchell:

Terry, you’ve been teaching God’s word around the globe for Walks of the Bible. I know you probably have a lot of great stories. Can you relate maybe one or two of your favorite moments teaching God’s word in other countries and in other cultures?

Terry  Broberg:

Oh yes. That’d be so much fun to tell you. Before I tell you kind of a fun story, I’m going to tell you something that’s serious going on, but that God’s word, the power of it is amazing. One of our children’s team leaders is in the country of Ukraine. And we all know that that country is just embattled now with so much strife and trauma. And our team there though is reaching thousands upon thousands of children. They’re in the middle of summer camp season right now and they bring whole families into the camp and they teach them the Bible in a very engaging way. And hundreds and hundreds of people are coming to the Lord because of the conflict in Ukraine and they’re seeing hope in God’s word. So there’s so much power there. And the little children are just enjoying so much understanding that God loves them and he wants to shield to protect them and really help them through this difficult time.

But a funny story about it is that I love to tell the story of the feeding of the 5,000, but I tell it as one of the children in the audience. And so I put a little funny hat on and show up with a little lunchbox and inside I have five loaves of bread and two little fish. And I talk about when Jesus asks me for my lunch to help feed the people. And the kids literally lean forward when they think about what if that was my lunch? And so engaging them means drawing them right into the story and saying, “What does Jesus have to do with me today?” And the more we can do that, the more excited the kids will get. I told that story about two months ago and the next week a boy came up and he said, “Is the little boy coming back to our lesson today?” He remembered the story so well because it was engaged and taught from like a first person point of view.

So there are a lot of fun things we can do to make this happen.

Jamie Mitchell:

Yeah. You know what, Terry? If we will just get God’s word wherever it is in the globe into a kid, it will not return void. God will use that in the hearts of the minds. I’m teaching right now on Sunday nights. I’ve gone back and I’m teaching young people on Sunday nights. It’s kind of wild. And the other night I recognized, I looked around and almost every young person in that room had a cell phone in their hand. And I don’t know why this is, but my cell phone every Sunday morning tells me how much screen time I have been on my phone. And I told the kids, I said, “Look, pull your phone out. This morning, you probably got a message about screen time.” I said, “If you looked at how much time you spent in the screen of your phone compared to how much time you spent in your Bible, what a difference that would make in your life?” And I believe that to be the case.

Terry, our hour is gone. I feel like we could talk about God’s word and kids forever. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, your insight. Our prayer is that today’s program will ignite parents. It will ignite pastors and any believer with kids in their lives that get excited about getting God’s words into the minds and in the hearts of our children. Friends, why is this important? Because we have to look at the long game, longevity. We have to believe that we need to touch the next generation. Thank you again for allowing us to speak to you today and challenge you. Wherever we talk about God’s word, I know it’ll take courage to teach it with clarity and boldness. And so with that in mind, live and lead with courage. And until tomorrow, come back and see us here and stand in the gap today.