What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me – practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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parent who uses the Bible to teach, reprove, correct, and instruct his children
in righteousness, but is not willing to practice that same biblical
righteousness in his own life, is not only a hypocrite but a provoker of his
children. “Do as I say, not as I do” is communicated more often by actions (or
lack of them) than by words. Regardless of how this message is communicated,
when children see their parents (their spiritual leaders) using double
standards, that encourages their anger, much like the hypocrisy of the scribes
and the Pharisees (the spiritual leaders of His day) rightly angered Christ.
I think that double standard is why so many kids leave the church because they don't see real faith from their parents and they think, whats the point.
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