Sunday, 16 March 2008

• Children and the bible

  Hmmm, today I brought a priest to see an uncle who's been warded for cancer. Its not known whether its lung, throat or malignant or benign yet. But I guess it's got something to do with the fact that he's been smoking for the last 50yrs or so?.

  I asked the priest whether it was a good idea to introduce young children to the christian spirituality. I've seen some other evangelists and pastors children turn out terribly. To me it seemed that they got used to and later bored of, the Holy Spirit...being exposed at an early age but without a mature mind....they seemed to have regarded it as a passing phase that you're suppose to experience and move on. Other pastures then would be able to rekindle emotions once felt from the Holy Spirit.

  The priest agreed with me adding that it was not bad to expose young children to spirituality as long as a balance exists, to ensure a well formed understanding of the Holy Spirit is attained, in other words, let kids be kids and stay away from forcing biblical text and/or rituals down their LITTLE throats. Doing so is almost a guarantee that they will hate anything related to spirituality. Remember there are other things in the world God created that our kids might find interesting other than your or my beliefs. How can anyone give praises to God for the wondrous creation of His hands if he/she is constantly focussing on text labelled with tiny numbers, and have never experienced His wondrous creations?

  My guideline then is Too much of anything is a Bad thing...so whats yours?

   

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