DA346 | Making Your Home a Launching Ground and Comparing Fatherhood to Rocket Science (Santosh Swamidass)

Sep 5, 2024

Santosh Swamidass, a pastor and former aerospace professional, draws fascinating parallels between fatherhood and rocket science. He discusses how to effectively launch your kids toward purpose by setting an intentional trajectory. Emphasizing the need for spiritual growth, he offers practical tools for incorporating faith conversations at home. Santosh highlights the importance of repetition and engagement in learning, suggesting weekly practices like memorizing scripture and meaningful prayers to foster a lasting impact in children's lives.

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Intro

00:00 • 6min

Laying the Groundwork for Purposeful Growth

05:50 • 7min

Leveraging Everyday Moments for Family Discipleship

12:30 • 3min

Harnessing Visual Reminders for Enhanced Learning

15:52 • 2min

Intentional Family Spiritual Growth and Gamification Strategies

17:43 • 2min

Nurturing Spiritual Growth in Families

19:54 • 19min

With a background in the aerospace industry, Santosh Swamidass can list plenty of ways that fatherhood is just like rocket science. In this conversation, Santosh illustrates the importance of launching your kids with the right targets in mind. With tools and systems shared in this episode, you can raise your kids to love Christ, discover their purpose, and impact the world around them.

Key Takeaways

The trajectory you set for your kids before they launch has a lifelong effect and, if you do it well, an eternal impact.
Find force multipliers like tools, guides, and systems to help your kids grow spiritually with less effort and better results.
To avoid forgetting 90% of what you learn each week, you just need a few short bursts of repetition to retain more of what matters.
Each week as a family, memorize one verse, pray for others two times, have three spiritual conversations of substance, and read the Bible four times.
Commit to a steady drip infusion of wisdom through your kid's childhood so it can have a compounding effect.

Santosh Swamidass

Santosh Swamidass is a pastor, architect of Project Based Discipleship, and Founder of the Launching Ground and Launch Network. He spent 10 years working in the aerospace industry and has over 25 years of ministry experience. Santosh and his wife, Christy, are enjoying the adventure and learnings of discipling their 7 kids.

Key Quotes

13:51 - "Jesus' references this even as the greatest commandment and what we see right after that in Deuteronomy, it's not the priests. It's not the the temple. It's not the tabernacle. It doesn't talk about what we would consider the church and the pastors. It talks about the parents and the home. This is what we're talking about, family discipleship."
32:57 - "We have a short period of time that will have an effect for the lifetime of our children. The reality is, if we do it well, it has an effect on eternity. In all the things that I invest my life in, there are there are very few that are going to last beyond my lifetime. My children, by the grace of God and their legacy is one of those things, and how they pass their faith on is going to be a lot of it derived from how we as fathers actually pour into our kids. And we know the statistics that the number one indicator for a child's faith in their future, it's actually the father's."

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