Transcript – Courage to Dress Children and Pick Them Up

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Rick Atchley

Oh by the way you just better know you’ve got an enemy.

We must let Satan know he can’t have our kids without a fight. I think too often we give in to the culture. We let our kids listen to filthy music. Watch things that they call entertainment that pollute their minds. Let them wear clothes that are frankly borderline immodest. And then we say, “Well what can we do? That’s what all the kids today are doing.”

Well what about this novel thought: What if Christian kids didn’t have to be like all the other kids? I’m probably gonna sound like a prude for a moment. But I cannot understand the propensity of young girls, even at this church, that even at church wear clothes that make a young boy’s thoughts go where they don’t need to go. And I’ve given up. I’ve given up on thinking you’re ever going to understand how VISUAL men are! But guys, you do know. You DO know. And I cannot understand why fathers in this church allow their daughters to wear T-shirts that are so tight they might as well hand out postcards with their measurements. Or wear skirts so short, no teenage boy could POSSIBLY listen to what the teacher is saying.

We’re selling out to the culture, instead of fighting back. The coaches in the select teams say, “Well if your kid is gonna play in high school you got to be in practice five nights a week. And he’s got to be here every weekend to play in the tournament.” And we say, “O no, we gotta get in, because what if our boy won’t get to start in high school?

Why don’t we fight back? Why don’t we fight back? Now my father and mother would come to football practice every Wednesday and get me, make me walk off the field in front of all my peers. And change my clothes in the back seat of the car to go to church on Wednesday night. Now did I appreciate it at the time? No. But I can look back now and appreciate that they had the courage to resist the culture. We need to be like Joshua. He said, “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

I believe as parents, we need to be more courageous in saying, “I don’t care what ALL the other kids are doing, because our goal for you is not to that you be like everybody else; our goal for you is for you to be like Jesus.”

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