Raising Confessors Session 2: Forming Children to Think and Speak Faithfully

"Forming Children to Think and Speak Faithfully" applies this to the home: children learn confession through speech, categories, and distinctions; parents can strengthen formation by requiring clear sentences, asking “why,” defining key terms, and correcting gently while modeling charity. The goal is not to raise debaters, but confessors—children grounded in truth and unthreatened by difference.

Rev. Jason Braaten grew up in New Lenox, Illinois, a small community southwest of Chicago on I-80. He has a BA in Theological Languages and Philosophy from Concordia University Chicago, an MDiv from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, with part of his instruction taken at Westfield House, Cambridge, England, and is working toward a STM in Historical Theology from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. Pastor Braaten shepherds Immanuel Lutheran Church, Tuscola, Illinois. He lives in Tuscola with his wife, Lauren, and five children, Oliver, Jonathan, Wilhelmina (Willa), Simon, and Marguerite (Maggie). In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, reading good books, and baseball.