We have a little problem flaring up again over here. A nickelodean/disney land Church is vying for the attention of two of my children. It is a fun church. They do fun things. Lots of fun things. Recently they pulled a fun all-niter at a local water park (in and of itself not a bad thing.) I hear every week there are half pikes (Brad tells me it's "pipes" but that I have to leave "pikes" because it's so cute that I didn't know the correct word) set up in the parking lot (in and of itself not a bad thing.) FUN! FUN! FUN! They have friends there. More FUN!
We do not mind fun in it's appropriate place. We love fun. In fact, we ARE fun people who very much like other fun people. We ourselves even have fun at church.
Not at that church. We did not think it was an amusing place. We found the fun to be a smokescreen distracting those who were having all the fun from lukewarm things.
(For the purposes of this post....church=campus where people gather for corporate worship and instruction in the Word.)
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We do not want to exasperate....which we fully own doing in the past. We ourselves attended this fun church for a few months a few years back when we were "churchless" desert wanderers seeking after a faithful place.
We now find ourselves sitting under Biblically sound teaching...in a class...w/in a church. The teaching is killing us. And at the same time...bringing with it...life. We see hope for the first time in a very long time.
Please pray for soft hearts and wisdom from above.
Some people would say we are crazy...to be concerned over such matters. Leave the kids alone they might say...at least they want to get up and go to church today...on their own initiative.
Part of that is true. Deep down...I get that.
But I also see tiny seeds of rebellion trying with all their might to take root...even deeper down.
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No one ever said it would be easy...this parenting thing. And the issues simply change as they get older.
Oh Lord, that we have taught them the ways in which they should go...and that as they grow older...they will not depart from it.
Aug 30, 2009
Fun Churches
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3 comments:
i hear you and get it.
from a struggling mom,
me
Brad told them that he has failed them in the past but has seen the error of his ways and is now attempting to get back on track. They are expected to get up and attend w/us. If not, there will be consequences.
Let's see what happens???????
Pray for us, please.
oxoxoxoxo
i agree with this idea and have enforced that as well but I have a hard time with a young man who is 18 and sees himself as a man and not only that, one that can make his own stupid decisions and as I am sure you may have heard some stupid ones in my eyes. And he is questioning that faith as well. I ask for your prayers as well. It gets a little rough around here some time.
xoxoxox back at ya!
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