part III, week 3 - Jesus and Family
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." - Matthew 18:1-6
I'm behind on my posting again, but I'm using VBS as my excuse. It has been an awesome week - talk about coming together as a family with Jesus!
Check out the transformation journal this week and post your thoughts.
posted by SonHarvest Kids @ 2:28 PM
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I was babysitting last week and happened upon Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care book. He had some interesting things to say in his Afterword (circa 1992). Unfortunately, things haven't changed much since then.
"There are unprecedented strains on American families today.
- Half the mothers of preschool children now have to work outside the home, yet there is not nearly enough high-quality day care, so thousands of children are being deprived and their parents made to feel guilty
- Working women are still sharply discriminated against - in pay and prestige.
- Divorce and the stepfamily, both highly stressful to all concerned, have doubled in frequency since 1975.
- Assembly-line systems in factories and in offices deprive workers of any creative satisfaction.
- The rich are getting richer, but the rest are getting poorer.
- Drug and alcohol abuse is both a result and a cause of family demoralization.
- Teenage pregnancy has become common.
- Violence is much greater than in any other industrial nation-in terms of murder within the family, rape and child abuse.
- Racial discrimination is still bitter.
Our most basic distriburbance, I believe, is the intense competitiveness and materialism of our society, which has convinced many people that getting ahead in their work is the most important thing in life and that family happiness, friendships, moral, economic and cultural interests should be sacrificed if necessary...
Human beings normally crave spiritual beliefs, and, in some other parts of the world, they balance their materialism with devotion to their religion. But for many Americans these other values have faded and only a sense of materialism remains strong...
We should raise our children not primarily to get ahead of others, I believe, but to become kind, cooperative, feeling people who will give family life a high priority, who will participate in the community, who will enrich their spirits with cultural interests, and who will not let their jobs distort their lives..."
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