![]() ![]() ![]() What about when you are held to a standard of the caricature of a Christian by those who do not understand that you are well aware you fall short all the time? Because even those who are not believers (and often especially those) will call you out on what they know to be moral values and label you a hypocrite, even if they do not hold to those standards in the least. Sure sharing Jesus with people who are at least mildly interested makes one think that it shouldn’t be that hard for young ones to do the same. Go in there and be a light…share Jesus…invite your friends to church…be a world changer.Įasier said when your circle is mostly other Christian moms. Suddenly I got a fresh understanding of what we were asking our kiddos to do every day. Jeering words and taunts began to flow from behind me as the circle of young believers in front of me continued to sing a worship song and close in prayer for their classmates, teachers and school. With my back to the sidewalk and my head bowed, I wept a new kind of tears. One year, I stood around that circle in front of the high school two of our kiddos attended.Īs we were nearing the end of the small service, the other students began arriving for the day. Of course, my generation of parents were definitely hands on, and while we certainly did let them do their own programming and leading we did have to drive in the early years and so we would form a circle around their circle and basically wipe tears as we listened to our young ones sing and offer prayers and operate whatever sound system they managed to come up with via a boom box…because it was, after all…the 90’s. It was also up to them to put together any music, prayers, and event organization for the morning gathering. ![]() See You At the Pole has been around since at least our own three were enrolled in public school back in the day.Ī student-led initiative, it was up to the kids to promote and invite and set it up with the administration. I am thinking of any brave young brothers and sisters in Christ who may have crawled out of bed a bit earlier than usual so they could join up with youth group friends to pray over their school. It’s a rainy morning here on the prairie. ![]()
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