You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how -- guaranteed! Rear
them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is
more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your
spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's
and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own
up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can
count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur. - Charles Swindoll
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be
trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to
be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. - Matthew Henry
Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two
paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the
Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from
one vessel made a few remarks about the snail's pace of the other. Words were
exchanged. Challenges were made. And the race began. Competition became vicious
as the two boats roared through the Deep South. One boat began falling behind.
Not enough fuel. There had been plenty of coal for the trip, but not enough for
a race. As the boat dropped back, an enterprising young sailor took some of the
ship's cargo and tossed it into the ovens. When the sailors saw that the
supplies burned as well as the coal, they fueled their boat with the material
they had been assigned to transport. They ended up winning the race, but burned
their cargo. God has entrusted cargo to us, too: children, spouses, friends. Our
job is to do our part in seeing that this cargo reaches its destination. Yet
when the program takes priority over people, people often suffer. How much cargo
do we sacrifice in order to achieve the number one slot? How many people never
reach the destination because of the aggressiveness of a competitive captain? -
Max Lucado
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended
to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of
things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord. - Charles Spurgeon
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how -- guaranteed! Rear
them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is
more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your
spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's
and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own
up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can
count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur. - Charles Swindoll
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be
trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to
be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. - Matthew Henry
Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two
paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the
Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from
one vessel made a few remarks about the snail's pace of the other. Words were
exchanged. Challenges were made. And the race began. Competition became vicious
as the two boats roared through the Deep South. One boat began falling behind.
Not enough fuel. There had been plenty of coal for the trip, but not enough for
a race. As the boat dropped back, an enterprising young sailor took some of the
ship's cargo and tossed it into the ovens. When the sailors saw that the
supplies burned as well as the coal, they fueled their boat with the material
they had been assigned to transport. They ended up winning the race, but burned
their cargo. God has entrusted cargo to us, too: children, spouses, friends. Our
job is to do our part in seeing that this cargo reaches its destination. Yet
when the program takes priority over people, people often suffer. How much cargo
do we sacrifice in order to achieve the number one slot? How many people never
reach the destination because of the aggressiveness of a competitive captain? -
Max Lucado
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended
to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of
things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord. - Charles Spurgeon