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Are You Discipling Kids or Just Teaching Them? Here’s the Difference.

David Rausch

Creator of GO! Curriculum and GO! Academy
Speaker | Author

Most children’s ministries do a great job teaching kids.

We tell Bible stories.
We unpack Scripture.
We make verses stick.

But here’s an important question every KidMin leader should wrestle with:

Are we also discipling kids? And what’s the difference?

Teaching and discipling are not the same thing. Teaching helps kids understand truth. Discipling helps kids live it.

Teaching fills the mind.
Discipling shapes the heart.

And here’s the reality: kids rarely drift into real discipleship accidentally. It happens when we intentionally help them move beyond simply hearing God’s Word and toward actually walking with God.

That’s why the best children’s ministries don’t just focus on delivering great lessons, they create moments where kids can respond to God, talk with Him, and begin experiencing a real relationship with Him. Those moments are where faith stops being information… and starts becoming transformation.

In Feeding Faith, I unpack an entire discipleship strategy that helps you move kids from hearing God’s Word to living it.

Because the goal of children’s ministry isn’t just raising kids who know Bible stories.

It’s raising kids who follow Jesus!

Bonus: If you’d like to read Feeding Faith together as a ministry team or book club, bulk pricing for 10 or more are available here.

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