What is Your Source?
// May 21st, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Christian Living, Family Life
Ben preached a great sermon on Mother’s Day. It wasn’t exactly related to mothers (although he did tie it into mothers a few times :) because it applies to every person who is a Christian. The thing that got him thinking about the sermon was a conversation we had had earlier that week. We were talking about our children and their need for discipline and love in their lives. We were commenting on the apparent lack of response on their part and the way we had really slacked off of clear, concise, consistent discipline. In talking we realized that too often we make the offense be about something other then the heart issue. It becomes something that offends us or our “rules”.
The kids can pretty quickly pick up on what the rules are and follow those in order to protect themselves from further discipline. What we realized in the way we had begun to approach these issues was that we were creating children who were very good at figuring out the rules and following them to make their lives easier, but we did not have children who were facing their sin and dealing with it in the appropriate way.
My oldest daughter is INTO Hannah Montana. She has the CD. She watches the show. I’ve been cool with it all up until now. Up until now, the whole Hannah Montana thing has been innocent, possibly even helpful. She’s known for being modest, family oriented and a good role model… things all too rare these days.
I grew up in the middle of charismania. If you know anything about charismatics, you know that they don’t like to do anything the way it has always been done before. In fact, they don’t like to do things even the way they themselves did it last time. We didn’t believe in tradition, unless we “felt led” to believe in it. And then it wasn’t tradition, it was sovereignty.