Raising People, Not Just Children
Formation, Discipline, Identity, Faith, Responsibility, and Letting Them Go
By Will Bourne · Bourne Again Media LLC
A child bears God's image before bearing a family name.
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A child bears God's image before bearing a family name. Raising People, Not Just Children asks what happens when adults become responsible for forming someone who will eventually no longer be a child. Across fifteen Parts and 64 chapters, Will Bourne brings Christian formation into presence, discipline, developing responsibility, emotional life, faith, bodily dignity, technology, school, appropriate help, adoption, foster care, siblings, parental repair and release. Authority serves the person entrusted to care, while the parent is formed too. The book attends to differing capacities and continuing support without making independence the price of adulthood. Jesus, grace and the Holy Spirit remain within the reasoning: adults may teach, model, pray and repent, but they cannot manufacture another person's spiritual life or entire outcome. Family Formation Book Six invites parents to love the actual child and give responsibility room to grow without giving care away.
Book details and library reference
Family Formation, Volume 6 of 10. It also belongs to the Family Formation pathway.
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Why this book exists
A child bears God's image before bearing a family name. Raising People, Not Just Children asks what happens when adults become responsible for forming someone who will eventually no longer be a child.
Who it may help
This book may help readers carrying questions about family formation, especially those looking for a thoughtful, Christ-centered way to connect belief with lived formation.
Where it belongs
Family Formation, Volume 6 of 10. It also belongs to the Family Formation pathway.
Questions this book helps you face
- What is the central question of Raising People, Not Just Children?
- What does it mean to love the child you actually have?
- How does parenting form the parent?
The conversation behind the book
A child bears God's image before bearing a family name. Raising People, Not Just Children asks what happens when adults become responsible for forming someone who will eventually no longer be a child. Across fifteen Parts and 64 chapters, Will Bourne brings Christian formation into presence, discipline, developing responsibility, emotional life, faith, bodily dignity, technology, school, appropriate help, adoption, foster care, siblings, parental repair and release. Authority serves the person entrusted to care, while the parent is formed too. The book attends to differing capacities and continuing support without making independence the price of adulthood. Jesus, grace and the Holy Spirit remain within the reasoning: adults may teach, model, pray and repent, but they cannot manufacture another person's spiritual life or entire outcome. Family Formation Book Six invites parents to love the actual child and give responsibility room to grow without giving care away.
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