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title: Your Teenager Needs Discipleship
canonical: "https://wordfirst.org/podcasts/tgc-podcast/teenager-needs-discipleship/"
pubDate: "2018-11-09T00:04:30.000Z"
updatedDate: "2020-11-09T18:36:51.000Z"
description: "In this podcast, Jen Wilkin and Melissa Kruger talk about their own experiences as parents discipling teenagers in the Christian faith and how to study the Bible."
categories: [TGC Podcast]
---

“When children are in middle school and high school, they know what it means to be a student, and yet that is precisely when often in the church we treat their faith as though it is not study-worthy. And so at the point that they are being asked to do calculus and physics, we begin saying, ‘You know what? Just spend 10 minutes each morning doing a devotional with your sacred text.’ I think that’s the wrong message.” — Jen Wilkin

**Date:**June 15, 2018

**Event:**The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference 2018, Indianapolis, Indiana

**Related:**

- [Raising an Alien Child](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/tgc-podcast/raising-an-alien-child/) (Jen Wilkin)
- [How to Talk to Your Children about Sex](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/talk-children-about-sex-wilkin-allberry-cook/) (Jen Wilkin, Sam Allberry, and Jason Cook)
- [How to Become a Tech-Wise Family](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/tgc-podcast/how-to-become-a-tech-wise-family/) (Collin Hansen and Andy Crouch)

Find more audio and video from the 2018 Women’s Conference on the [conference media page](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/conference/tgcw18/).