Sifting through stacks of audio recordings, we keep an ear out for recordings of C.J. and Carolyn together on the topic of parenting. There aren’t many of these recordings (to date only two), but those we have found are being evaluated and excerpted here.

This fourth audio clip in our series was recorded late in 2001 at a Covenant Life Church Tuesday night parent-youth meeting. Covenant Life pastor Grant Layman moderated the panel, which included C.J. and Carolyn and two of their daughters, Nicole and Janelle.

Today’s clip focuses on these questions: How do parents transfer a love for the local church to their children? How does making the church family a priority shape the priorities of the immediate family? How does this priority affect a child’s involvement in sports and other activities? Plus, C.J. reveals how this priority in one father—and a desire to marry that father’s daughter—helped to inaugurate Covenant Life Church.

Listen here:

4. Teaching Children to Love the Church (10:59)



Other clips in the series:

1. Gospel-Centered Parenting + Young Children (9:27)
2. The Gospel + Parental Sin (2:39)
3. The Gospel + Discipline (5:37)