Another great article. Many years ago when my oldest children were on the verge of becoming teenagers I started to get a little worried, having grown up in the 60's and 70' with all the societal change much of which was opposite of church teachings and standards I remembered all the arguments with parents and others over music, dress, etc., and wanted to try to avoid it. At the time I had a co-worker who I had also been to school with, good faithful member of the church, returned missionary and also native american, he had children basically same age as mine, I thought I'll ask him how he's gonna handle teaching them church standards, especially dress and grooming because he had not only the social pressure to deal with but cultural as well. One day I said to him how did you deal with that when you were young and how you going to deal with it with your kids, I expected this very intellectual, logical rationale, he thought for a moment and then said, "is the church true" ? I replied "well yes it's true", he then replied " then nothing else matters". I was like what, that's it, how is that helpful ! But later as I thought about it and over the years as things have come up, I think about his answer and how simple it was but simply profound.
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Corey D.October 23, 2024
Another great article. Many years ago when my oldest children were on the verge of becoming teenagers I started to get a little worried, having grown up in the 60's and 70' with all the societal change much of which was opposite of church teachings and standards I remembered all the arguments with parents and others over music, dress, etc., and wanted to try to avoid it. At the time I had a co-worker who I had also been to school with, good faithful member of the church, returned missionary and also native american, he had children basically same age as mine, I thought I'll ask him how he's gonna handle teaching them church standards, especially dress and grooming because he had not only the social pressure to deal with but cultural as well. One day I said to him how did you deal with that when you were young and how you going to deal with it with your kids, I expected this very intellectual, logical rationale, he thought for a moment and then said, "is the church true" ? I replied "well yes it's true", he then replied " then nothing else matters". I was like what, that's it, how is that helpful ! But later as I thought about it and over the years as things have come up, I think about his answer and how simple it was but simply profound.
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