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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Dear Son, telling you last night how impressed i was from your honest and professional answers on the Youth Ministry survey was a great moment.
The biggest revelation was when you described “Youth Group” feeling more like “Bible Study” than a youth group.
Here’s to hoping your honest answers are well received.
The stereotypical assumption is that they won’t.
Here’s to us being wrong.
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Something this Dad doesn’t say very often:
Son, I’m proud of you.
Long ago, a Montessori curriculum expert suggested that when raising a child, be careful not to have them grow up with an approval addiction.
Let the child discover how valuable and special they are. On their own.
Facilitate their own sense of pride that is from their internal voice, not the voice of approving adults.
Guide them in a different way.
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As the microwave timer chimed and the 55-year old added a tablespoon of honey to the cup of plain hot water, the 14-year old asked, “What are you doing?”
The old man said, “A little honey gives the hot water a little flavor.”
Then the 14-year old said to the 55-year old, “Your optimism kills me.”
The old man had always wondered about life, especially mornings, without caffeine. Because for the past 20 years or so, caffeine seemed indispensable.
He’s realized in the past 100 days that caffeine was an unnecessary, and distracting crutch.
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He is not a fan of Youth Ministry. At all.
We talked about it yesterday at dinner. Then we drove for another Sunday night session.
Suggested that he go into the session pretending he’s going to High School – the focus being on making friends, being friendly, being accepting, having fun.
Let go of feeling like “religion” is the goal.
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Dear Son, we talked about the obvious, common, and glaring Christian faults – the stereotypical definition by which non-Christians view the Christian world (this sentence is a perfect example of my own stereotype).
This means people like me, a quiet, open-minded Christian who doesn’t profess faith and love with words, are labeled and grouped in without consideration.
Labeled the same way gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgenders are stereotypically labeled – without consideration.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
We talked about how those who label are guilty of the very thing they despise – labeling.
Is there an antidote?
Serve like you mean it is done through our observable behaviors and the first victory is over self. The second ministry is won at home, in the kitchen, the garage, the hallways of our dwelling.
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