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To: anniegetyourgun

"According to surveys, not very well. Close to 80% of kids raised in the Church leave their first love for temporal stuff."

If my Sunday School ciriculum is any standard to judge, then it is no mystery why. Our kids are simply not challenged sufficiently in my church.


16 posted on 02/01/2005 5:22:28 AM PST by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm)
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To: gobucks

Natural law will not be denied. At some point, men will be forced by circumstances to manifest their God-given attributes. Those who cannot/will not will not survive.


19 posted on 02/01/2005 5:38:10 AM PST by PaRebel (Self defense: an unalienable right!!!)
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To: gobucks

You aren't alone in that complaint. Sadly, even those churches that DO cover morality issues, rarely talk about WHY God says what He does about them. All kids hear is "don't" - but they aren't given reasons.


23 posted on 02/01/2005 6:18:12 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: gobucks
If my Sunday School ciriculum is any standard to judge, then it is no mystery why. Our kids are simply not challenged sufficiently in my church.

My kids stayed at home for the first part of their college daze. We white-knuckled some of those 25-mile commutes while waiting for the last child in to turn off the kitchen light. At this point, one of my prayers seems to have been answered. Like many home school families, we are seeing kids grow up to adulthood more wholesome than we were at their ages. Raising kisd in one faith (Christianity) seems to offer better hopes of success than trying to raise them in two faiths, with secular humanism proclaimed as the faith best suited for the real world.

26 posted on 02/01/2005 8:40:27 AM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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