Your focus can be sharpened by the realization that discipline is not you working on your agenda, venting your wrath toward your children; it is you coming as God’s representative, bringing the reproofs of life to your son or your daughter. You only muddy the waters when the bottom line in discipline is your displeasure over their behavior, rather than God’s displeasure with rebellion against His ordained authority.

Tedd Tripp (b. 1946), Pastor, Buchautor und Konferenzredner

Topics: Relationships & Family, Ethical Questions

Tedd Tripp

Tedd Tripp ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikal-reformierter Pastor, Seelsorger und Autor, der von 1980 bis 2012 eine Gemeinde in Pennsylvania leitete. Weithin bekannt wurde er durch sein Erziehungsbuch „Eltern – Hüter der Herzen“ („Shepherding a Child’s Heart“), das eine Ausrichtung auf die Herzenshaltung des Kindes betont, wegen der Befürwortung körperlicher Züchtigung jedoch scharf kritisiert wird. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er als einflussreiche Stimme konservativer Familienethik, deren Methoden und Autoritätsverständnis stark polarisieren.

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