Priority 5:
Community
By: Dennis Rainey
We have become increasingly convinced and alarmed that one of the most damaging changes that has occurred in recent years is the loss of community in raising our children.
We used to look out for the children of others far more than we do now.
This type of involvement is rare today.
This type of involvement is rare today.
In our age of tolerance, we have developed the philosophy that we have no right to tell another parent about a concern we have about his child. And our children suffer from our failure to be involved in the lives of others.
We’ve learned through experience how much we need the help of others to monitor and correct our children.
We’ve learned through experience how much we need the help of others to monitor and correct our children.
Friends, true friends, have cared enough to courageously call and express a concern about something they’ve seen one of our children doing that they know we wouldn’t approve of.
Those are tough phone calls to make.
And tough to receive.
But in each and every case we’ve seen God use these circumstances to help us keep a child out of a threatening trap.
There is a natural community that we need to do a better job of tapping into for our children’s accountability.
There is a natural community that we need to do a better job of tapping into for our children’s accountability.
It’s your church and mine. Certainly this group of folks ought to have the right perspective on the value and worth our children possess.
We are in this thing together, and that should pertain especially to raising the generation that is the future of the church.
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