Set Free to Choose Right

New Book by Best-selling Author, Josh McDowell Helps Parents Equip Today’s Children to Know How to Make Right Moral Choices for Life  

“I have shared this material with my own kids, and it has provided us with new ways to say yes to what is right and how to do the next right thing. You will love Set Free to Choose Right if you love teaching your kids how to live the Christian life.”

—Stephen Arterburn, Founder and Chairman of New Life Ministries

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As parents, youth leaders or educators, we all hope that our kids will make right moral choices. While we try to provide wise counsel and teach them what is morally right and wrong, it may feel hopeless at times in an increasingly ungodly culture that is drawing our kids away from biblical moral truth.

Renowned speaker and author, Josh McDowell says “There is no denying that we face an uphill battle, but it is a battle that we can definitely win.” In his latest book, Set Free to Choose Right: Equipping Today’s Kids to Make Right Moral Choices for Life (February 2018 – Shiloh Run Press), McDowell provides a step-by-step guide that will help equip our children with a strong foundation to know why right is right, and wrong is wrong.

McDowell believes that to empower our kids to discern right from wrong, we need to squarely address a cultural issue, a child development issue, and a parental methodology issue, which he explores in depth within the book. He believes that confronting and understanding these issues will lay the solid foundation where we can set our kids free to choose right.

In Set Free to Choose Right, readers will learn:

• Why today’s kids feel they have the right to determine what is “right” or “wrong” for themselves.
• How culture reinforces that there are no universal truths and where this misconception historically originated.
• Practical tips along with ideas for motivating teens to make the right life choices.
• It is God’s character and nature that ultimately define right and wrong.

McDowell also provides engaging stories and helpful illustrations that model how a person (of any age) can distinguish between right and wrong and make the right choice – every time!

Readers will also be introduced to a simple but profound four-step process that will help guide your kids to make right choices. The “4 C’s Process” includes:

• Consider the choice
• Compare it to God
• Commit to God’s way
• Count on God’s protection and protection

It’s not surprising that in today’s highly sexualized culture, McDowell has found that much of the moral concerns that teens and preteens are facing do center on sexuality. Recently, Josh McDowell Ministry commissioned the Barna Group to survey over 3,000 parents, pastors, and teens to find out how prevalent Internet porn use is among families and the church. The results may surprise you: Only one third (32%) of our kids say porn is morally wrong. Yet over half (56%) say not recycling is morally wrong! With these statistics in mind, McDowell devotes attention to the issue of Internet pornography within Set Free to Choose Right, and even includes portions of the extensive survey that was conducted.

To further help parents, educators and pastors, Josh McDowell Ministry will be launching the Set Free Journey, which is a free resource tailored to men, women and youth that will consist of short daily videos and downloadable articles. There’s even a sermon outline for Pastors to preach on Set Free to Choose Right. For information about the Set Free Journey, please visit: www.SetFreeToChooseRight.com

The good news is that it is possible to equip your kids to know how to make right moral choices for life. McDowell says, “With dedication, commitment, effective tools, and God’s help, you can instill God’s moral values within your kids to “live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people” (Philippians 2:15).

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Set Free To Choose Right: Equipping Today’s Kids to Make Right Moral Choices for Life by Josh McDowell
February 2018/978-1634099745/ $16.99/224 Pages Shiloh Run Press; An Imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc.

PUBLICITY CONTACT: Sharon Farnell – 212-593-6337; 518-952-4597 / Sharon.Farnell@FinnPartners.com

JOSH MCDOWELL MINISTRY – PRESS CONTACT: 866-252-5424, media@josh.org

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