Do your church members physically abuse their children? Maybe you think
it’s so few that you don't feel compelled to teach publicly what
everyone knows: don't abuse your kids. At most it's one or two bad
apples, right?
I'm not so sure.
I cannot say that I want to write about this topic, and I’m no expert.
But I keep stumbling into abuse situations in one church or another. And
in every case it's been a “model family” who abused their children in
the name of what they thought was “biblical discipline.” In other words,
I’m talking about well-meaning parents.
Sometimes anger was to blame. The parents confess that their temper got
the best of them when their discipline left bruises. Then again,
something about their overall approach regularly leaves cuts, welts, or
bruises.
Sometimes a severe deficiency of wisdom was to blame. I heard of one
couple who spanked their six-month old. Or another who would strike
different body parts of their older children with a hard object. And all
of these parents believed they were doing the right thing.
Defining abuse would take another article. But like the Supreme Court
justice said about pornography, you know it when you see it. You can see
the frightened child backing away as their young eyes behold the
grotesque ungodliness storming toward them. Keep Reading >>>
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