By allowing them into your life you are, in fact, encouraging them in your own life and other people's life." quoted from Scott Cross during his sermon June 29th.
This touched my heart so deeply. I knew this. It is not a new concept. But it was an Ahh Hah experience. It was exactly what I needed to hear in the exact words I needed to hear them in.
What things do we not really think we are encouraging yet we allow into our lives? Is it a movie or tv show? Maybe a book? What if it is just an attitude?
I tell my children, " It is not what you say so much as how you say it."
Wouldn't this be the same concept?
It is not what I say but what I allow in my life that says it all. How can I say from one side I do not condone...This particular thing is offensive...
Yet on the other side I will watch those same(or worse) actions in a movie-sometimes with my kids around YIKES!!
Maybe I will read a book-even if it is'christian'- and things that I know are unacceptable are there-in black and white.
I need to keep this thought in the forefront of my mind-and act accordingly.
