Many people seem to see Christianity as a "Get out of Hell" card, a trump that can be played to forgive a multitude of errors. They believe therfore they are saved. If they slip up, doesn't matter. They can say the magic word and down comes the duck (a reference for the Old Farts among us. Anyone remember the name of that Program?).
Here is a really good example of this attitude.
This actually happened while I was at a friends house last winter. The family's 2 sons (aged 14 and 12) were outside shoveling snow off the driveway when they got into an argument about something. The elder one smacked the younger on the head with his shovel hard enough to knock him off his feet but thankfully not hard enough to do any real damage.
While speaking to this boy on a later occasion about this incident he told me. "It's OK for me to do bad things sometimes. I'm a Christian! Jesus has already paid for my sins so I am guaranteed a place in heaven."
Are we really bringing up our children with this kind of attitude?
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