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Jeremy Pryor’s Followers (8)
Jeremy Pryor
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“God gave fathers the power to speak words directly into the identity of their sons because a man becomes a good son by following the vision and leadership of his father.”
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
“By the nature of their basic design, families tend to have a strong, united identity. In this natural state families live in the same house, eat the same meals, work on the same projects, suffer the same misfortunes, have the same friends and extended family relations and protect the weaker members. It takes an alien, unnatural culture to create a family that eats separately, has separate friends, separate interests and identifies more strongly with a peer-based subculture than their own family. Most of what families must do to bring back a strong family identity involves resisting the forces that want to pull the family into its individual parts. In our family that means we don’t worship separately, we worship together; we don’t play sports separately but together; we don’t learn separately but together; we eat most of our meals together; we make money together; we go on adventures together because we are one unit and we opt out of many opportunities that force us to spend too much time embodying our individual identities.”
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
“Even when the antidote of the Gospel story is pulsing through the veins of your children, the Gospel will still often need to be rehearsed to confront various idols that try to take root in their lives. When we see our kids fall in love with video games, popularity, sports or themselves, we often spend all of our energy attacking the idols themselves but the Gospel presents a different approach. The only way to break the hold of a beautiful object on the soul is to show it an object more beautiful (to paraphrase Thomas Chalmers's famous sermon “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”). It’s not enough just to say no—we need to give our kids something greater to which they can say yes. The greatest antidote for sin is not always more self-control but greater spiritual passion. The Gospel gives kids this passion for Christ. When they see what it cost Him and how glorious His love truly is, spiritual passion will begin to violently shove out the idols in their lives.”
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
― Family Revision: How Ancient Wisdom Can Heal the Modern Family
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