{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"School, church and the home: Who's actually responsible for your kids' faith?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4949,"description":"Every Christian parent has felt the tension. Do you send your kids to a Christian school? They're plugged into kids church right? The faith formation is happening right? But is it? And whose job is it really?\nJoel, Stu and Tim are joined by David Stonestreet — Principal of Shire Christian School and Soul Revival member number 009, to work through the history of Christian schooling in Australia, what sets a covenantal Christian school apart, why church attendance in the Sutherland Shire has dropped from 11% to around 1% in a generation, and why the school-church-home partnership is more urgent now than it's ever been.\nThey also end up somewhere unexpected: a conversation about transcendence, immanence, why young people are flocking to ancient liturgical churches, and what the seeker-sensitive movement got wrong about a generation that hates its own life.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcoming Dave and some old Soul Revival stories\n06:30 Francis Schaeffer, L'Abri and why Christianity doesn't require intellectual suicide\n13:30 What sets a Christian school apart, David unpacks the covenantal model\n20:30 Tim's school choice story, pro and con lists, a billboard and vanilla Christianity\n28:30 The offload problem: why sending kids to Christian school isn't enough\n34:00 Church decline in the Sutherland Shire: the statistics that should concern every church leader\n44:00 Schools and churches working together: the partnership model\n54:00 Has state school become more hostile to Christianity?\n1:07:30 Transcendence and immanence: why young people are flocking to ancient churches\nDiscussed on this episode\nShire Christian SchoolAbraham Kuyper's sphere of sovereignty\nFrancis Schaeffer and L'Abri\nFrancis Schaeffer's The Great Evangelical Disaster\nNCLS Research: How Religious Are Australians?\nNCLS Research: What draws newcomers to church?\nKendra Creasy Dean's Practicing Passion\nJoin the Shock Absorber Network: shockabsorber.com.auSoul Revival Church: soulrevivalchurch.com\nSubscribe, leave a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}