heartoflesh
Puritan Board Junior
I just read Tim Challies' latest entry.
I have to admit I feel a bit convicted after reading it. I've recently been telling my two girls (4 and 6) that I don't like them playing with a certain two other girls in our neighborhood, also sisters. These girls are bossy, disrespectful, and watch TV shows we don't approve of. One day last month they invited my girls over to watch a "Barbie" movie, and as it turned out they watched Scooby Doo (the adult movie version). It was a purposeful deception, and yes, my kids were just as deceptive. My youngest is now afraid of monsters!
Still, I know that isolation and separation is not the key to success here, as Challies' article illustrates. How will those other girls ever know about Jesus and the gospel if no one ever tells them about it. Maybe I'll have to rethink this one.
I have to admit I feel a bit convicted after reading it. I've recently been telling my two girls (4 and 6) that I don't like them playing with a certain two other girls in our neighborhood, also sisters. These girls are bossy, disrespectful, and watch TV shows we don't approve of. One day last month they invited my girls over to watch a "Barbie" movie, and as it turned out they watched Scooby Doo (the adult movie version). It was a purposeful deception, and yes, my kids were just as deceptive. My youngest is now afraid of monsters!
Still, I know that isolation and separation is not the key to success here, as Challies' article illustrates. How will those other girls ever know about Jesus and the gospel if no one ever tells them about it. Maybe I'll have to rethink this one.