My Broken Church
Ive been away from my church for a while, grown up a little and now I seen things in a different way, maybe clearer, maybe more truthfully - not sure yet.
Every one is broken baby - everyone in sight
Everyone is groping honey.. in the middle of the night
--Don Chaffer
Camp GAP 2006 (Children's camp)
I've realized you cant say a word to make everything perfect -- or i just havent figured out what that word is yet.
Truly everyone is sick in someway. . . Ha, why is it always the college student comming out with all the morbid stuff? But no, Maybe Im at that age where Ive figured out Im old enough to disagree with the way things are.
I dont know if it was the way things were at the camp, or the families where these boys came from, the staff, the volunteers, or the, just, evil that always seemed to creep into situations and these innocent little kids lives. I mean how can really fully protect them from harms way. I guess thats a parents greatest regret in having children - that they have to feel the paings of the world upon their sholders.
But no, I say if you are going to do it, you got to do it, meaning if your going to raise a son who is going to love God and not be rebellious your going to have to teach them obedience. And if you hope for your son to realize his hopes and dreams and be able to pick himself up off the ground when he fails miserably then your going to have to invest your lives. You are a reflection of your children. If you want to be proud of your children then you better raise them right! If you want your children to fully experience the fullness of life you better teach them the essence of life! The kids you have are going to experience the same sin, guilt, shame, sufferings that you had until you make a stand and say 'NO! Im sick of this sin and bondage and Im not going to have it anymore!' Then only when you break that cycle of continuous repetative slavery through sin then you will have that freedom that truly comes from Christ. "For freedoms sake Christ set us free". We have the power to stop the sin from passing on down to our children if we choose put an end to it in our lives. Our children and our childrens children are going to continue to feel the sin, and fears until we defeat them. Just as sin entered through one man, it has been inherited through every generation, but we can stop that sin through another man. Its all connected, our fears will be our sons fears unless we stop fearing.
Those boys there in that cabin are the church, what those boys do and say shows the condition of our generation. How they worship, how they reason, how they judge, how they experience God shows the condition of the body of believers in our naiton. Are we, as co-heirs in Christ, not experiencing the glory, the blessings, the freedom that comes with his inheritence? Our inheritence is not Adams' but Christs'. Our youth show have the same inheritence we choose to have. Will it be freedom in Christ or will we be satisfied with what the world shows us?
This is what Ive been thinking in view of Gods mercy in this world
"So teach us to number our days aright
that we may gain a heart of wisdom"
Psalms 90:12
Every one is broken baby - everyone in sight
Everyone is groping honey.. in the middle of the night
--Don Chaffer
Camp GAP 2006 (Children's camp)
I've realized you cant say a word to make everything perfect -- or i just havent figured out what that word is yet.
Truly everyone is sick in someway. . . Ha, why is it always the college student comming out with all the morbid stuff? But no, Maybe Im at that age where Ive figured out Im old enough to disagree with the way things are.
I dont know if it was the way things were at the camp, or the families where these boys came from, the staff, the volunteers, or the, just, evil that always seemed to creep into situations and these innocent little kids lives. I mean how can really fully protect them from harms way. I guess thats a parents greatest regret in having children - that they have to feel the paings of the world upon their sholders.
But no, I say if you are going to do it, you got to do it, meaning if your going to raise a son who is going to love God and not be rebellious your going to have to teach them obedience. And if you hope for your son to realize his hopes and dreams and be able to pick himself up off the ground when he fails miserably then your going to have to invest your lives. You are a reflection of your children. If you want to be proud of your children then you better raise them right! If you want your children to fully experience the fullness of life you better teach them the essence of life! The kids you have are going to experience the same sin, guilt, shame, sufferings that you had until you make a stand and say 'NO! Im sick of this sin and bondage and Im not going to have it anymore!' Then only when you break that cycle of continuous repetative slavery through sin then you will have that freedom that truly comes from Christ. "For freedoms sake Christ set us free". We have the power to stop the sin from passing on down to our children if we choose put an end to it in our lives. Our children and our childrens children are going to continue to feel the sin, and fears until we defeat them. Just as sin entered through one man, it has been inherited through every generation, but we can stop that sin through another man. Its all connected, our fears will be our sons fears unless we stop fearing.
Those boys there in that cabin are the church, what those boys do and say shows the condition of our generation. How they worship, how they reason, how they judge, how they experience God shows the condition of the body of believers in our naiton. Are we, as co-heirs in Christ, not experiencing the glory, the blessings, the freedom that comes with his inheritence? Our inheritence is not Adams' but Christs'. Our youth show have the same inheritence we choose to have. Will it be freedom in Christ or will we be satisfied with what the world shows us?
This is what Ive been thinking in view of Gods mercy in this world
"So teach us to number our days aright
that we may gain a heart of wisdom"
Psalms 90:12
posted by mg at 10:05 PM
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