From zero to nero

A home that lacked leadership. A home that lacked harmony, peace, and joy. If you grew up in a home where you parents loved each other, loved you and brought you up to follow Jesus, you are in the minority.

Most people come from broken homes. Research shows if a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3. If the mother is the first to accept Christ, the percent goes up and But if the father is first, there is a 93 percent probability that everyone else in the household will follow.

When father goes first spiritually, good things happen at home. How do you think he answered other kids when they asked him what his mom did for a living?

Do you know what bothers me today? We are raising up a generation of people who want to blame all their problems on others. If a young man begins to drink, he blames his dad the alcoholic. If the young girl sleeps around, she blames it on her mother who had affairs. Life is simply too short to go around carrying grudges against people. But these brothers of Jephthah lived with their noses turned down at Jephthah.

His family rejected him, but God still had a plan for his life. Some of you who come from tough families — maybe you were born out of wedlock, maybe your mom or dad left you, walked out. God sees you in a totally different way than others see you. Many of us have labeled ourselves based on what other say about us.

They saw special leadership ability in him. Men began following him on raids to take down the enemy. We will not tolerate no effort being put into work; we will not tolerate lying, bullying, cheating, stealing. There needs to be a tolerance threshold; we will accept this but no further. Instead we must celebrate hero tolerance, tolerance that is courageous enough to say it will not tolerate what is wrong. If we do not, we will be guilty of Nero tolerance, in treating trivially or frivolously what is serious and significant.

Should we show tolerance to Nero; should we put up with intolerant behaviour? Of course not. There must be zero tolerance of Nero tolerance. Instead we need to stop fiddling around and show Hero tolerance; a tolerance that will accept what is right but not what is wrong. Rome will be nothing if we survive the fiery claims of being intolerant. The views expressed in this article, however, are solely those of the author in his private capacity and do not necessarily represent the views of the ATS.

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