Episode #32
S3E32 - KolbyKing part 2 - Sitting on the Porch With God: What It Costs to Raise a Generation That Actually Believes
Part 2 opens with an idea that reframes the whole conversation: contemporary worship music may have quietly become the new catechism — the primary way kids absorb what they believe about God, often shaped by an industry more interested in selling a product than teaching theology. Kolby ties this to a broader pattern of outsourcing — dinner to restaurants, the lawn to the neighbor kid, and spiritual formation to church staff. He shares a gutting story about a woman in her 70s who told his wife, in tears, "I've lost my children" — not to death, but to a faith that never took root at home despite years of youth group and mission trips. Kolby pushes back hard on low expectations for kids, telling the story of training children as young as sixth grade to lead their peers to Christ, and of a twelve-year-old girl named Ellen who memorized the entire book of James because her leader challenged the kids to memorize it alongside her — and did it himself. The conversation turns to what a pastor can actually control: guarding his own walk with God, guarding his family, and preaching truth without manufacturing revival through manipulation. Real change is a move of the Holy Spirit, not a program. The speed round covers "God's Smuggler" as Kolby's most-reread book, Joseph as his favorite Bible character, and a funeral story — a grieving, atheist mother who tried to climb into her son's casket to hug him one last time. The episode closes with Kolby's testimony: assurance of a calling since age seven, and a moment years later where God asked him to trade his ambition for something simpler — sitting on the porch with a cup of tea, content even if everything else were stripped away.
