Love Grows Up (3 of 3)
Series: Love Church
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: Paul's final love challenge to the Corinthian Church is to ''GROW UP''. In I Corinthians 13:8-13 Paul teaches that love calls upon Christians to grow up in three ways 1) Prioritize the permanent. 2) Spank your ''inner child''. 3) Major in love.
INTRODUCTION: Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a book entitled, ''How to raise an adult'' in which she writes: ''Each year I saw more and more parents come to campus with their freshman kid and then . . . stay, literally or virtually, to: ask questions; select courses, activities, majors, internships, and careers; solve problems; handle conflicts; defend and advocate for their student; register for classes; fill out applications; track deadlines; and call to wake their kid up. And to top it all off, these students weren't mortified when their parents did all of this-as my generation and the ones before it would have been-they were grateful! Grateful to be able to communicate with a parent multiple times a day, in the dorm, in the dining halls, in the student union, going to class, going to another class, going somewhere after class, in the lobby of the advising office. Even in my office. Or they tried to. 'It's my mom,' they'd say, sheepishly, with a small shrug. 'Do you mind if I just... get this? I'll just... Mom?' I thought to myself, Something's not right. Is this college, or is it middle school? As I watched my students live their college lives still somehow looking over to the sidelines for mom or dad's direction, protection, or intervention, as if they were five years old playing soccer and needing mom or dad to point in which direction to kick the ball. I began to wonder whether lately we've been raising Stepford Children.''
The thrust of her book is that at some point children must grow up. We may debate what that point is, but there does come a point when we need to say to our children, ''Grow up!''
Paul seems to hav ...
Series: Love Church
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: Paul's final love challenge to the Corinthian Church is to ''GROW UP''. In I Corinthians 13:8-13 Paul teaches that love calls upon Christians to grow up in three ways 1) Prioritize the permanent. 2) Spank your ''inner child''. 3) Major in love.
INTRODUCTION: Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a book entitled, ''How to raise an adult'' in which she writes: ''Each year I saw more and more parents come to campus with their freshman kid and then . . . stay, literally or virtually, to: ask questions; select courses, activities, majors, internships, and careers; solve problems; handle conflicts; defend and advocate for their student; register for classes; fill out applications; track deadlines; and call to wake their kid up. And to top it all off, these students weren't mortified when their parents did all of this-as my generation and the ones before it would have been-they were grateful! Grateful to be able to communicate with a parent multiple times a day, in the dorm, in the dining halls, in the student union, going to class, going to another class, going somewhere after class, in the lobby of the advising office. Even in my office. Or they tried to. 'It's my mom,' they'd say, sheepishly, with a small shrug. 'Do you mind if I just... get this? I'll just... Mom?' I thought to myself, Something's not right. Is this college, or is it middle school? As I watched my students live their college lives still somehow looking over to the sidelines for mom or dad's direction, protection, or intervention, as if they were five years old playing soccer and needing mom or dad to point in which direction to kick the ball. I began to wonder whether lately we've been raising Stepford Children.''
The thrust of her book is that at some point children must grow up. We may debate what that point is, but there does come a point when we need to say to our children, ''Grow up!''
Paul seems to hav ...
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