Faq | for parents

 

Hey parents! We realize that we can’t do this without you.

We’ve seen time and time again that when parents are supportive of what their teens are learning, two things happen: (1) students’ confidence in their faith grows exponentially and (2) the likelihood that students will leave their faith diminishes tremendously.

We’d love to partner with you as you raise your teens to be confident in their faith. So check out our Parent FAQ below.

  • 7x7 Conversations is the youth ministry of the C.S. Lewis Society. We’re positioned to encourage, guide, and equip interested adults on how to effectively start and build a discipleship group of teenagers. Our goal is to empower teens to know Jesus, build and defend their faith, obey his word, and have a passion to share with others why they believe what they believe. text goes here

  • Take our short survey to find out how spiritually prepared your child is for the real world.

    • A vision of how your child “could” grow spiritually with their friends

    • Partnership to help your child develop a personal relationship and longing for Christ

    • Opportunity for your child to develop solid Christian community and accountability

    • An opportunity to spiritually be involved in mentoring your child

    • Helping you model Christ as you learn to disciple your child and their friends

    • Lesson plans that will create dialogue and about God’s Word as your student fleshes out their faith

    • Empowering YOU to effectively teach your child and their friends to study the Bible in Christian community

  • Our vision for your teenager is to engage him/her in discussion to help them come to know and love Jesus, and understand what it means to obey - teaching them how to build their faith with an inspiration to go and tell others why they believe what they believe.

    We want to replace the problem of apathy, complacency, confusion, and doubt with a hunger and love for the things of God through a series of teaching topics that will help steer them through the ups and downs as they follow after Jesus. Partnering with you in this teaching and training process will address this problem.

  • Unfortunately in today’s culture, that is too common. So what do we do about it?

    We’ve heard it said that “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” This is true, but the important thing is to lead them to the water, because that is half the battle. Here is when we pray that the Lord will make them drink.

    With the stronghold of worldly influence in our society, we have to be proactive in bringing students to the feet of Jesus. That looks like praying for them, bringing them to church, encouraging them to attend a Bible study, reading God’s Word to them, and teaching them how to serve. Even if they are not interested in God, they are watching us in how we respond to God.

    As parents, leaders, and teachers, we must have faith that our prayers and efforts make a difference.

  • We asked several parents the following questions and received these responses.

    What aspect of 7 x 7 conversations do you like most as a parent?

    • Mentorship

    • Discipleship

    • Dialogue and conversations to help my child hash out why they believe what they believe

    • A real-life community so students can relate and talk things out

    • Have you noticed a difference in your teen? Do you think your teenager is learning and growing?

    • Yes, they are asking more questions

    • Yes, they are more committed to learning God’s word

    • Yes, they have more security and confidence as they understand why they believe

    • Yes, they are beginning to understand aspects of Christianity that they never understood before

    • Yes, they are actually interested in the topics because they are “real” to them and they can be involved in the discussion

    What benefit is this to your teenager?

    • A godly adult to help disciple and mentor my teen

    • Teaching my teen not to “just accept” what people say or their opinions without researching God's word and knowing that it’s true

    • Teaching my teen how to develop and understand why they believe what they believe

    • Giving my teen confidence in explaining and defending their faith

    • New godly friendships

    • Accountability

    • Providing a safe, positive, and Christ-like social atmosphere for my teen