Grace Based Parenting :: Karis Murray [EP30]

God refers to Himself as our Father and the Word teaches that we can see God as our father. God relates to us - His children through grace. And we know grace is simply unmerited favor; getting what we don’t deserve.Karis shares from her experience of teaching children about obedience, and dissuading children from lying. How do we parent from grace? By first understanding that God pursues our hearts in order to teach and correct us. “This relationship that we have with God, is one where He has standards and He expects us to obey, but He knows we won’t. But He still pursues our hearts even when we don’t.”Karis shares that like us our kids will never perfectly obey, yet moms need to love their children through discipline. Godly discipline is grace-based, and not fear-based. And it strives to let go of unfair unrealistic expectations. “We need to release the tyranny of perfection on ourselves and our kids.” Grace doesn’t necessarily mean being nice or being easy going or being a push over or having an absence of rules and consequences, it simply means approaching it God’s way. That boils down to upholding God’s standards and rules, modeling His authentic love and expressing His love in everything we do.What we chat aboutMeaning of GraceGrace Based Parenting Obedience, Spanking, LyingActionable tips on grace based parenting