Listening to Dan Beltzer at Mount Rushmore motivated me and gave me insight into how to motivate children towards, "Spiritual Greatness". The Bible is full of contrast. One of those contrast is not to be self centered yet God will make "self" a story. Dan spoke of his experiences. He took what we would call ordinary and made it extra ordinary. In fact research has shown that in our post modern age shared experiences are among the most successful teaching episodes. Have your child read a verse. Give them feedback as to how that can be personally applied to their life.