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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
I am not talking about people coming fromthe world. I teach a class of kids and most are long term church kids...
I cannot remember Brother Alvear ever telling someone what color to wear...Most cases they have come to us and told us what color they were going to wear!
I think judgement begins at the house of God...If you come from the world it is a whole different story than working with young ones that know very little about the world.
and that is so true "Prevention is worth a pound of cure..." saves a lot of tears later on...
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With church kids, I think they should be taught from the time they are very small about the sanctity of marriage, and the importance God places upon it. At the same time, though, if a church kid falls, and repents, I don't think we should lose our sense of compassion.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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