“I am not sure I believe in Christianity” or “I don’t want to come to church anymore,” are some of the words that Christian parents dread hearing. When they come there is a mixture of feelings: disappointment, sadness, failure and shame. These feelings in turn produce our own questions: “Where did I go wrong?” or “Why am I such a bad parent or such a useless Christian?”
All of this makes some Christian parents feel as if they have woefully missed bringing up the three cherries of the slot machine of parenting. Paul Mallard has written a wise and warmly pastoral book that addresses the uncertainty, guilt and pain of Christian parents whose children walk away from Jesus.
Mallard takes the reader for a walk through Scripture to examine the questions that Christian parents ask when their children decide to turn their backs on the faith they have been taught.
