So what if Esau got duped!
In the teen class a couple weeks ago our beloved young adults, pretty much across the board, thought it was fine for Jacob to dupe his brother out of his blessing. When push on the point they thought in general that this was an acceptable way of life. “It’s Esau’s fault he’s so gullible” came the reply. It seems the general consensus that these teens believe it’s OK to be conniving to get ahead in life.
Question - How have we as a church taught them the contrary (or indeed have we?)?
How can we reinforce Jesus’ self sacrificing service of others in a way that shakes them free from the grip of their secularism?
Talk amongst yourselves…
God’s peace,
Patrick +
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January 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Patrick, this is a great question. I have to wonder too how much of their answer is a result of the time in which they grew up. As we adults have abandoned our young people, they’ve been left to sort of fend for themselves in an adult world. They’ll stick together and do whatever it takes to survive in a world that’s stacked against them.
So if school has become all about the adults in that teachers want to look good so they push their kids to do better instead of it being about the kids success in life, then it’s not only permissible, but “moral” (in their world view) to lie or cheat to keep your friend from failing.
I guess my follow-up question would then be, what do we has a church have to do in order to get to a place where we can teach the contrary of the opinion you saw expressed?