The Fifth Commandment

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.”  Words that easily make any teenager cringe! What about when they don’t understand?  Or they’re being unreasonable? Or they are just plain wrong? I said last weekend that “parents are not always right but they’re always necessary.”  We’ll talk about that this weekend. We’ll also talk about the shift from obeying our parents to honouring our parents. This, too, is fraught with complexity. For many of us, it is an honour and a privilege to honour our parents. They make this very easy. But in some cases, our parents haven’t been quite as “honourable.”  What are we to do then?

It will be a weekend to figure out how to parent our parents! Having two of them myself, I can hardly wait to hear what I’ll have to say! I hope it will be a weekend that encourages the heart and strengthens the home.  I hope you’ll be able to join with us!

Be blessed, be safe and be well.

Pastor Ian