Catechism for Families: Discipling Kids with Trevin Wax & Thomas West

Family discipleship and catechism for families are the focus as Aaron Smith talks with Trevin Wax of the North American Mission Board and Thomas West, senior pastor of Nashville First Baptist Church, co-authors of The Gospel Way Catechism, a 50-question counter-catechism that answers Western expressive individualism with the gospel. Drawing on missionary years in Romania and church planting in London, and on the thinking of Lesslie Newbigin and Tim Keller, they explain that catechesis is already happening through Disney songs, ads, and social feeds, so parents need to be just as intentional. They share a simple approach of connect, confront, and convert, point to Deuteronomy 6 as the pattern for teaching kids the Bible at home, encourage fathers who feel inadequate to lead, and urge believers to guard against deception by studying Scripture in community, guided by the historic rule of faith.