Common Denominators In George Barna's Revolutionary Parenting

George Barna in his book Revolutionary Parenting, provides from research the tools to facilitate parents to maximise their opportunity to raise well balanced mature disciples of Christ.
We are very complex creatures in nature and when it comes to parenting we all bring different ideas into the equation this makes us very unique and parenting can take many different shapes and forms. Therefore, many books have been written of the different perspectives and experiences but none from empirical research. However, Barna seeks to present common denominators that emerge from his findings. These are the things that parents have done that have impacted their children in such a way that they have become (spiritual strong mature adults) mature humans
102) Most people in the Christian world today fail to make God the priority in which He is the most import thing in their lives, in which their agenda revolves around God and not just fitting God in the blank spots left, which is the common practice of the contemporary Christian world today. As Adventist, we are very knowledgably of scriptures but we are very hypocritical in the way we live out scriptures. We fail to apply the knowledge that we so readily defend. And even our worldview is getting distorted because we are no longer accepting absolute truth. This is the result of a postmodern society which is impacting the way we view God’s word today. We are even questioning if such moral truth portrayed in the Bible are absolutes. However, it is imperative for a revolutionary parent to “believe that absolute moral truth exists” (p. 105) and it is encapsulated within the word of God. If we are teaching children to honor God it has to be God’s way and not my own way, “one of the nonnegotiable factors imbedded within the parenting behaviors of the great parents was their insistence of faith in God and obedience to biblical principles as the driving force behind the household culture and their child-rearing practices.” (p.95) They “accept the role of being the primary and dominant spiritual mentor of their children.” (p. 95) This concept mentioned in the book highlights what an important Bible truth found in Deuteronomy 6: 5-9 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them