Interstellar Deuteronomy 6:5-7
What Your Kids Will Remember
Dylan Thomas
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Watch this. Three minutes. Then three questions below it.

Interstellar What Your Kids Will Remember 2014
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
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How This Connects to Your Life

Cooper drives away from the farm while Murphy screams from the porch. The film is a three-hour meditation on what a father owes his children.

The greatest inheritance you can leave your children is a received faith, one they watched you actually live in, wrestle with, and hold onto when it cost something.

The transfer of faith is not an event. It is a thousand ordinary moments in which a father chose to make God real rather than religious.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7
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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Impress these commandments on your children.”
God said impress these commandments on your children as you walk, as you sit, as you lie down, as you rise. Not at church. In the ordinary moments.
Three Questions.
No wrong answers. Just honest ones.
1
What message are you sending your children through the life you are currently living?
2
Is there anger in one of your children toward you that you have never addressed?
3
What would your children write in their journals tonight about their relationship with you?
The History Behind the Film

Interstellar is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.

The History Behind the Scripture

Deuteronomy 6:5-7 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.

How It All Connects

The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.

This Week
1
Tell your children a specific story this week of something God did in your life. Not a theological lesson. A real story.
2
Pray with each of your children individually this week, out loud, specifically, by name.
3
Write down three things you want your children to have received from you by adulthood. Does your daily life actually build those things?
4
Ask your oldest child: What do you think I believe about God? Their answer will tell you what they have actually seen.
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