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Originally Posted by GrowingPains
No, I'm referring to the transition. Many die during this. Many casualties. I think even without the church's "rules", mommy and daddy have a huge role to play with household "standards" that they create as a home, and daddy does as the priest of the home.
It's the transition though that reveals fully the shallowness of what they thought was a deep relationship (not all, but many). They also begin to question everything from the existence in God to the credibility of their own family to have "been wrong this whole time." Their world is topsy-turvy. As a result, I've noticed many youth groups going through this not turn toward holiness, but turn to extreme carnality, flaunting their new liberties like a parade and creating a culture in the church that is not what the decision intended.
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To me, this is one of the great tragedies of legalism in the first place. It makes for a very shaky foundation.
I'm spending a lot of time right now talking to my kids. Discussing the rules, where they came from, whether they are biblically based, or just man-made. If they were necessary for a certain time period, but are not biblically required. What the Bible requires will never change, but our man-made rules will change. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's necessary to know the difference.
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