Living Faith At Home

Living Faith At HomeSadly, many children learn bad behavior at home. Recently there has been an epidemic of outlandish behavior by young people across this country. Authorities often admit that they discover alcohol, drugs and weapons have been introduced to those young people by their parents.Perhaps you witnessed a recent news report in which a woman boarded a school bus with her young daughter. She then prompted her daughter to attack another young girl on the bus. In another recent news report, a different mother did the same thing; only she participated in attacking a young boy on a bus. Listen to what John Baillie wrote almost 70 years ago about parental examples, "As far back as I can remember anything, I was somehow aware that my parents lived under the same kind of authority as that which, through them, was communicated to me. I could see that my parents, too, behaved as though they, even they, were not their own." John Baillie, Our Knowledge of God (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939), p. 5.We might say, "So what? Parents are living under the same authority they communicate to their children today - no authority or simple rebellious authority!" Indeed, that is too true in our day. We must have Christian parents who don't say, "Do as I tell you," but can say with moral decency and fortitude, "Do as I do and you will follow God's path for your life."Dr. J. Mike MinnixEditorPastorLife