MY BIBLE DOESN’T SAY THAT!
My boys were fighting again. If there hadn’t been something called “sibling rivalry”, Philip (age 5) and David (age 3) would have invented it. This time, however, the fighting had been going on most of the day. The yelling, the name-calling, the tears, the occasional punches had become almost intolerable. My wife had tried almost every trick she knew. She sent them to bed, she threatened them, she reasoned with them, she tried to distract them, she even applied an occasional swat to their bottoms, but nothing worked for long. Late in the afternoon Philip initiated another skirmish. This time my wife took a desperate measure – she tried theology. “Philip,” she said, “the Bible says, ‘Be kind to one another’.” Philip stood up, put his hands on his hips, and said, “My Bible doesn’t say that!” There are people in every church who will listen to exhortation, instruction, warnings, and challenges only to reply, by action and attitude,…
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