{"id":214,"date":"2008-01-24T22:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-01-25T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:48:52","slug":"acsi-josh-mcdowell-relationships-that-transform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"ACSI: Josh McDowell part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Session-Josh McDowell<br \/>\nThursday Morning<br \/>\n100R \u201cRelationships that Transform\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two goofy jokes he started with&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I started in ministry, the Dead Sea was only sick.<br \/>\nWhen I started in ministry, the Statue of Liberty was just a little girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Making of an Individual<\/strong><br \/>\nBehavior-driven by our values<br \/>\nValues-formed by our beliefs<br \/>\nBeliefs-drive our values<br \/>\nRelationships-drive our beliefs<\/p>\n<p>Relationships \u2192 Beliefs \u2192 Values \u2192 Behavior<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 26:3 \u2026\u201dFor I am constantly aware of your UNFAILING LOVE, and I have lived according to your TRUTH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 86:11-13\u2026TRUTH comes from LOVE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific Research states\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n1.    Develop loving, intimate connection\/relationship with the child or they will walk away from truth.<br \/>\n2.    Model the very truth\/value you wan to see ingrained in the child or they will walk away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Profile of School Shooters\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n1.    White<br \/>\n2.    Middle-Class<br \/>\n3.    Father was either absent, distant, or non-involved in the parenting process<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johns Hopkins study<\/strong><br \/>\n1.    a common cause of problems comes from a lack of closeness to parents<br \/>\n2.    leads to stress<br \/>\n3.    a child raised in a loving\/intimate home can handle stress a lot better<\/p>\n<p>Illustration: Michael Jackson and his relationship with his father<\/p>\n<p>Intimacy is the capacity to be real with someone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Questions Josh McDowell asks his children\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n1.    Do you know that I love you?<br \/>\n2.    Do you know that I love your mom?<br \/>\n3.    Do you want the same kind of relationship that we have?<\/p>\n<p>George H.W. Bush, when asked his greatest accomplishment\u2026.<br \/>\n\u201cMy children still come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush said \u201cthere has not been a day in my life that I have ever questioned my father\u2019s love for me.\u201d  \u201cThat set me free to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illustration: Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafucco<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dartmouth study revealed\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n1.    A child learns how to talk by being talked to<br \/>\n2.    They learn how to love by being loved<br \/>\n3.    They learn to believe by being related to<\/p>\n<p>Students want to hear TRUTH<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Father Connection by Josh McDowell<br \/>\nThe Disconnected Generation by Josh McDowell<br \/>\nThe Relational Word by Josh McDowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Session-Josh McDowell Thursday Morning 100R \u201cRelationships that Transform\u201d Two goofy jokes he started with&#8230; When I started in ministry, the Dead Sea was only sick. When I started in ministry, the Statue of Liberty was just a little girl. The Making of an Individual Behavior-driven by our values Values-formed by our beliefs Beliefs-drive our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}