News
Rite of Passage in Stores Now
WHAT: Retail and online launches this week for
Rite of Passage: A Father’s Blessing from pastor, author, film
producer, and dad—Jim McBride. In an American culture that
clings to childhood and reinforces irresponsibility, Rite of
Passage shows parents how to help their growing children leave
adolescence for adulthood.
WHO: Executive pastor of Sherwood Church and
executive producer of the film COURAGEOUS, McBride traces a
biblical road map to a centuries-old, global tradition still
relevant for today’s American families.
SYNOPSIS: McBride’s book examines practices
centuries-old and pan-cultural, ceremonies or occasions when
adults publicly pronounce that this boy is now a man and this
girl a women—and inductees step into their adult roles in
society.
In Rite of Passage, parents learn to deliberately and biblically
draw a line between childhood and adult responsibilities and
privileges. Referring to McBride’s personal experience and to
world history Rite of Passage opens parents to easily adaptable
ways to usher their children out of extended youth and into full
life as the mature people God calls us to be.