Uncle Michael Talk-Talk on Youth Ministry and YWAP in BSGC

Friday, May 26, 2006

where do we draw the line?

I have been observing a growing and disturbing trend among parenting techniques the last few months. My observation: school education is slowly removing christianity from the life of the child.

We used to be sent to sunday school when we were young. It used to be so excited to go to church. It used to be exciting to study the Bible and we always compete to finish our assignment/ homework for sunday school/bible classes

We were taught to
  • "put God first",
  • "Quiet time is important and must be done everyday",
  • "knowing the bible is the way to teach, mold and bring-up a child in the fear of the Lord"

These have been replaced with

  • "Stay home and study - passing your exams are more imporatnt - You can serve God later when you finish your studies!"
  • "Tuition and regular revision is important"
  • "Ensuring your child in scoring straight As, 100% school attendence, colourful extra school curricular activities is the way to bring up the child"
We are now struggling with
  • a decent prayer "mumbled" by a youth. the only constant is probably in praying before the exams!
  • knowing where we put the bible, never mind knowing what's the first book of the bible or the last book.. "Did we leave it in church?" (I know someone who leaves the bible in church since the person feels that it is only sunday that the bible needs to be open ...and that only when and if the speaker asks us to do so...)
  • our quiet time is away from chattering kids OR nagging parents... Our quiet time has taken the form of SLEEPING (more likely)
  • making sure our kids stays in the competition in the rat race
Before long, we will stand to regret that
  • Our child will lose the interest of studying the bible because it is not important as career, family, friends, tv, sports, etc are more important
  • Our child will not discover the personal relationship with God - since quiet time, prayer and the joy of serving God is not taught
  • Our child will not know our God as the bible is not taught.
  • Our child will not go to church because we prohibited them from coming to church and knowing the imporatance of church life.
  • Our child will not serve in the church because circular career and making money is more important
  • Our child will not be a Christian because we taught our child the ways of the world.
  • Our child will not go to heaven because they do not know Christ...
Where do we draw the line?

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