I completely agree with your point about the lack of consequences being taught.
I believe growth in faith, along with our over character is achieved through experiencing consequences for our actions.
The video game mentality of no consequences, I have actually seen in people, as I have worked with youth before. They are surprised that because they did A, that B has to happen.
I think it’s up to every believer to try to live in reality as much as possible (oh how dumb this statement would have sounded 50 years ago…).
It’s not to be legalistic about don’t do this or that, but to just hold the correct values and see that we were meant to live in reality, not an illusion. God meant for us to live and grow and love all in reality.
I must tell you that my parents bought a wii, and for the first time in my life I actually played baseball with my dad. It’s not that we didn’t try when I was a kid, but more that I just sucked at it. My mother also joined in for a bit of gold, and even my wife got way into the bowling. True wii-kness is the case of tennis elbow I now have. I appreciate your points, but I find the wii’s place in your argument to be irrelevant. Arguably if a wii had been around when I was a kid I would have spent even more time with my dad, who because he was responsible already spent a great deal of time with me.
I completely agree with your point about the lack of consequences being taught.
I believe growth in faith, along with our over character is achieved through experiencing consequences for our actions.
The video game mentality of no consequences, I have actually seen in people, as I have worked with youth before. They are surprised that because they did A, that B has to happen.
I think it’s up to every believer to try to live in reality as much as possible (oh how dumb this statement would have sounded 50 years ago…).
It’s not to be legalistic about don’t do this or that, but to just hold the correct values and see that we were meant to live in reality, not an illusion. God meant for us to live and grow and love all in reality.
By: cohesivefaith on August 12, 2008
at 7:17 pm
I must tell you that my parents bought a wii, and for the first time in my life I actually played baseball with my dad. It’s not that we didn’t try when I was a kid, but more that I just sucked at it. My mother also joined in for a bit of gold, and even my wife got way into the bowling. True wii-kness is the case of tennis elbow I now have. I appreciate your points, but I find the wii’s place in your argument to be irrelevant. Arguably if a wii had been around when I was a kid I would have spent even more time with my dad, who because he was responsible already spent a great deal of time with me.
By: victor on September 2, 2008
at 6:40 am