Welcome to Camp Funk

hard topic to swallow

This was a great paper and also a hard topic. People don't like to discuss kingdom relationships now a days.

But if we dare to lead our home against the flow, we will likely raise children who are different. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve asked our children to stand in the raging current of our culture and take one hard step at a time upstream.

And it won’t be easy. God never promised easy!

I began to see glimpses of this when my children were very young. Because when your parenting choices don’t match up with what everyone else is doing, people notice. And they often aren’t afraid to point it out to you and other people.

It’s harder for our kids, because we are choosing this journey for them until they can navigate it on their own. Our belief in absolute truth, our choice to follow Jesus, our priorities– are setting our kids on an upstream course. And whether we like it or not, we are raising kids who won’t always fit in with what our culture says is normal.

It shows up in school and at church, in our community and our friend’s homes:

The first time your son asks his friends if they can play a less violent video game.

The first time your daughter chooses a modest dress over a popular trend.

The first time your son is showed pornography on a friend’s phone and walks away.

The first time your daughter stands up to the mean girls.

The first time your child opposes what others are doing is the beginning of a lot of other firsts.

When our kids leave our home, we hope they will stay on course; we’ve done what we can to equip them. If they choose another path, we pray God will redeem it.

In the meantime, most people don’t like turbulent waters because they can be scary and uncertain. But they will come and you will survive them.