Do it in Love!

My sister-in-law is keeping me accountable. She emailed me in love saying...where are the daily posts!!!

First lesson learned post:

My son is amazing. He is 11 years old and loves the Lord. Not only does he love the Lord, he understands and believes what He says in the Bible. I also need to mention that he is very confident in his faith. I say this because he has many conversations with his friends and non-friends at school during lunch hour.

They are studying evolution in his science class and Logan balks at the whole theory. This causes some intense discussions and debates. Logan is very verbal and replays each discussion thoroughly with us when he gets home from school. I have to say the kid knows his stuff, but the delivery is somewhat aggressive.

We asked him if it was more important for him to win the debate or for his friends to come to know the Truth in Christ? If we win for the sake of winning we glorify ourselves. But on the otherhand, if we tell the Truth in love we glorify God. It was a lesson in love, not creation vs. evolution.

We see God working in our son and he is starting to show his God-given gifts. It is our job as parents to teach him how to use his gifts to glorify God. Pride is something we all struggle with and it is no different for an eleven year old. We told him to keep talking to his friends at school but do it in love. God willing the hearts of his friends will change but for us we are excited to see how God will change Logan.

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:16

God is Good!