Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids

Written by Kara Powell, Chap Clark and John Ortberg and Jim Candy

Narrated by Jay Charles

Sticky Faith delivers positive and practical ideas to nurture within your kids a living, loving faith that lasts a lifetime.

Research indicates that almost half of high school seniors drift from their faith after graduation.

Struck by this staggering statistic, and recognizing its ramifications, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the "College Transition Project" in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service.

This easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children’s spiritual growth so that it will stick with them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.

Written by Fuller Youth Institute Executive Director Dr. Kara E. Powell and youth expert Chap Clark--authors known for the integrity of their research and the intensity of their passion for young people--Sticky Faith is geared to spark a movement that empowers adults to develop robust and long-term faith in kids of all ages.

Further engage your family and church with the Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family, Sticky Faith curriculum, and Sticky Faith youth worker edition. Sticky Faith is also available in Spanish, Cómo criar jóvenes de fe sólida.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Oct 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9780310591856

Kara Powell

Kara Powell es directora ejecutiva del Instituto para la Juventud del Seminario Teológico Fuller en Pasadena, California. Es autora de una amplia variedad de exitosos libros para el ministerio juvenil. Además, Kara a través de www.ymwomen.com, anima, equipa y conecta a mujeres que sirven a los jóvenes.

Reviews for Sticky Faith

[mdubois_29 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Taking the Heath brother's work in "Made to Stick" on marketing and trying to apply it to discipleship isn't the best idea. Not only are marketing and discipleship different in their purpose and outcome, but it also shows the general evangelical penchant to take popular ideas and catechize them into something churchy. So although the book starts with an incorrect premise, it builds on this with an illogical approach to discipleship. Our kids our leaving church and not coming back....so do more of what we are doing now.....it will work better, somehow. This has not relation to the marketing ideas of "Made to Stick" and appears to contradict the hard research done by Barna in "UnChristian." There is plenty of evidence that shows the reason people are leaving evangelical churches is because they are shallow and vapid. Piling on the entertainment and telling people that their life will be better by coming to church WITHOUT linking their faith to Jesus's work on the cross (the authors of this book studiously avoid discussing what they mean by "faith" and any mention of the cross being central to why people are in church in the first place) is a recipe for failure. So nice packaging, but poor scholarship in the content, plus, trying to rip off a successful book's title to make the material seem more relevant or authoritative equals a big fail for "Sticky Faith." Honestly, what they describe as "faith" and what they want to stick is not anything I'd be interested in or want my daughter to be connected to as the foundation for her church attendance.

[revslick_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Should be required reading for all Christian parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles, and mentors that want to impart their faith in very concrete and practical ways. Thanks to Wes Ingram for recommending. Excellent!

[lauraodom-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I liked the premise of this book and gained a couple of nuggets from it, but overall I found it a little disappointing. Not that it wasn’t helpful, but it just wasn’t AS specific as I’d hoped it would be. I guess I was expecting a bullet list. Do this, this, and this, to help your child’s faith “stick”. But in the end, you can do a lot of these things, but ultimately it’s their choice. I felt that the strongest point of the book was that kids need to have other adult Christians besides yourself deeply involved in their lives. The authors suggest a 5:1 ratio (5 adults per child). Quite a bit of the book focused on the transition of children from high school to college/adulthood, and I guess while that is in my future, I’m just not there yet. I still am glad I read it though, and I think it’s just another reminder of how I should constantly be purposeful in my life and the example I’m providing for my children. I gave it 3 of 5 stars.