Counter-Culture Kids
Proverbs 22:6 ESV
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
John 17:13-18 NIV
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not OF the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them OUT of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not OF the world,even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them INTO the world.”
American culture trains people to be MORALISTIC, NARCISSISTIC, CONSUMERS.
Training Counter-Culture Kids
1. I’m not training them to be MORAL but to be HOLY
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
For it is by grace you have been saved, THROUGH FAITH—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—NOT BY WORKS, so that no one can boast.
Matthew 22:37-38 NIV
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your HEART and with all your SOUL and with all your MIND.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.
YOU ARE THE PRIMARY DISCIPLER OF YOUR HOME!
Training Counter-Culture Kids
1. I’m not training them to be MORAL but to be HOLY
2. I’m not training them to be NARCISSISTIC but to be LOVING
Matthew 20:25-28 NIV
Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Our love isn’t measured by how we love JESUS but by how we love JUDAS!
Training Counter-Culture Kids
1. I’m not training them to be MORAL but to be HOLY
2. I’m not training them to be NARCISSISTIC but to be LOVING
3. I’m not training them to be CONSUMERS but to be LEADERS
1 Timothy 4:12 NIV
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, BUT SET AN EXAMPLE for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
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