*Prepare the rope to hang this renagade...
But I agree with the Parent who would be disappointed if
RR had pushed for his son to become baptized without his
pressence or permission.
We don't need to re-invent the program to know that it's
gotten off course from the founders intent. RR had started
with offering a "balance" and promotion of the "whole boy"
and his exploration of "Life" and occupational development
through lay ministry and merits...
*Just a FCF went too far on fraternity, and was roped in..
I'd like some of you rascals to consider not becomeing the primary
spiritual councilor, minister, pastor to your Ranger boys.. but to re-think
what the true role of "Commander" is...
For every lecture about "delveing deeper into the bible" balance it with
an equal amonut of encouagement to raise the GPA of the boys school
work, and a healthy lesson in sportsmanship.
RR was intended to *Promote the boys to explore... and *Discover truth
rather than to have a Bible bounced off the head and 2 hours of sitting in
a steel samsonite chair!
Thanks-
-=A=-
clint grant wrote:
> Please allow me to present to you Rangernetters this line of thought,
> seeing that you are no strangers to controversy and debate:
> The bible says to baptize. (Matt. 28:19) The purpose of Royal Rangers is
> pretty much synonymous with this command. Reach, teach and keep boys for
> Christ. Yet, at Camps, we don't baptize, and it has been my observation,
> over the last two years, that most of the boys we lead to Christ have not
> been baptized, nor has much effort been made to do so.
> Are we obeying the great commission in full?
> The reasoning behind NOT baptizing seems to be that someone (namely
> parents) will be offended. True, some parents have thier children
> to be baptized. I personally know of three young people whom I have led to
> Christ in these last two years whose parents have refused to let them be
> baptized.
> While discussing this with some other commanders the other night, one said
> that he would be disturbed if his son came home from a camp and had been
> baptized without his knowledge. This line of thinking disturbs me, in that
> we live in a country in which our children, at any age, can go to a clinic
> and get birth control without our knowledge.
> So are we obeying God, or man? Are we afraid to obey God because of man? A
> generation ago, even a few years ago, we would have thought nothing of
> baptizing kids at a youth camp. Why don't we do it now? Are we going to stop
> sharing Christ with boys because thier parents don't want us to? Remember
> the Jewish boy's parents who sued the baptist church? Would Peter, James and
> John have followed our line of thinking?
> Are we on the right track? Where is this track going to take us two years
> from now? Ten years from now?
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