I have the awesome opportunity to work with some great parents. Here are 7 questions you need to be able to answer about your children.
1- Do you know what music your child is listening to?
2- Do you know who they would list as their top three friends?
3- Do you know what their biggest struggle is in living for Christ?
4- Do you know what they absolutely love to do?
5- Do you know that their dreams are?
6- Do you know their biggest fear?
7- Do you know what God is doing in their life?
Remember, as parents we have the opportunity and responsibility of discipling our children. That involved knowing them on a very deep level. God Bless.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Rules
There is a famous saying that Rules Without a Relationship equals a Rebellion. This is so true in many different cases. Whether it be with children and parents, citizens and a government, or students at a school, when people feel that they are being dealt with and ruled over when there is no care or compassion being shown to them, they rebel. In fact that is really the story of the United States, citizens were being taxed and not represented in the law making, so they rebelled.
I went to a very spiritually dark college and found that there were many people that had such an anger against God or the idea of God. They would write things, usually anonymous, about Jesus or God and I would wonder, "How can you be so mad at Jesus, I mean he healed people." It is the principle that stated above that fuels that type of anger. They feel that God has leveraged all these rules on them when they don't even have a relationship with Him.
It is for this reason that the church reaches out to not put forth the rules of God, but rather the love and relationship that He desires to have with his children. Now this doesn't mean that we need to condone disobedience or sin, but rather we don't fight it with boycotting or picketing. The world is lost and without God so of course they are selfish, thats all they have. We need to be loving and walk as Christ walked. He desperately loves his children and wants them to obey of course, but first He wants to have a relationship with them. He wants them to come to Him, not just obey.
I went to a very spiritually dark college and found that there were many people that had such an anger against God or the idea of God. They would write things, usually anonymous, about Jesus or God and I would wonder, "How can you be so mad at Jesus, I mean he healed people." It is the principle that stated above that fuels that type of anger. They feel that God has leveraged all these rules on them when they don't even have a relationship with Him.
It is for this reason that the church reaches out to not put forth the rules of God, but rather the love and relationship that He desires to have with his children. Now this doesn't mean that we need to condone disobedience or sin, but rather we don't fight it with boycotting or picketing. The world is lost and without God so of course they are selfish, thats all they have. We need to be loving and walk as Christ walked. He desperately loves his children and wants them to obey of course, but first He wants to have a relationship with them. He wants them to come to Him, not just obey.
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