The focal point of your discipline and correction must be your children seeing their utter inability to do the things which God requires unless they know the help and strength of God. Your correction must hold the standard of righteousness as high as God holds it… The alternative is to reduce the standard to what may be fairly expected of your children without the grace of God. The alternative is to give them a law they can keep. The alternative is a lesser standard that does not require grace and does not cast them on Christ, but rather on their own resources. Dependence on their own resources moves them away from the cross. It moves them away from any self-assessment that would force them to conclude that they desperately need Jesus’ forgiveness and power.
— Tedd Tripp (b. 1946), Pastor, Buchautor und Konferenzredner
Topics: Relationships & Family, Grace & Redemption, Guilt & Forgiveness
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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you see a child, you catch God in the act.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Our sexuality is not our soul, marriage is not heaven, and singleness is not hell.
Jackie Hill Perry
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.