![]() ![]() This can ultimately be expanded to seeking to know anyone you would counsel, witness to, and disciple. This present chapter, Chapter Five: “Parents, Meet Your Teenager,” which concludes Part One (Clearing the Debris), highlights important reminders to keep when pursuing opportunities with teens. He then examined “family” according to the Scripture, summarizing biblical anthropology and family community. He challenged readers (parents) to examine idols (unbiblical, worldly, selfish expectations and goals) within their hearts for their children. He sought to reclaim parenting to the glorious purpose of fulfilling God’s divine appointment of shepherding another soul through life, in and against the culture’s attitude of merely surviving those teen years. In Part One, Tripp confronted the secular and skewed attitude toward parenting. Tripp has divided his book into three parts: (1) Clearing the Debris (2) Setting Godly Goals and (3) Practical Strategies for Parenting Teens. To briefly review, I have been summarizing and expanding each chapter of Paul Tripp’s Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens. Paul David Tripp touches on this principle. ![]() Biblical wisdom must be applied appropriately and with discernment. In other words, we need to seek to know the people we minister to. One of my biblical counseling professors has often exhorted his students that we not only need to faithfully exegete the Word of God, but we must also exegete people. ![]() “The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” (Proverbs 20:5) ![]()
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