Francis Kong's Blog Post: “AND WE SAID OK” plus 2 more

AND WE SAID OK
There’s been a lot of request for me to post the interview I had in ANC with Edric Mendoza in his program “On The Money.” Thank you for the interest. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2no_Hh9WXKI

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 03:34 PM PDT

The Ilocana and I entertained the thought of sending our kids to study in another country. At least for a little while. To have our children travel and experience a change in environment would have been an effective means of education.

But we immediately changed our minds the moment we heard of yet another shooting. A smiling kid enters his school, pulled out a gun and methodically shot his friends and classmates. Why? What's happening to the young people in the world today?

An American friend of mine sent me an e-mail and this is his analysis.

In light of the recent shooting in Massachusetts, let’s see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare complained she didn’t want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school…. The Bible that says, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we said OK, we won’t spank them anymore.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued. (There’s a big difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And we accepted their reasoning. Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won’t even have to tell their parents. And we said, that’s a grand idea.

Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, that’s another great idea. Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn’t matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn’t matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

And then someone said let’s print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said we have no problem with that. And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them available on the Internet. And we said they’re entitled to their free speech.

And the entertainment industry said, let’s make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let’s record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, an satanic themes. And we said its just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.

I think it has a great deal to do with “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.” Listen.

Kids are not a short-term loan, they are a long-term investment!

We want what's best for them, we better teach them the Word of God by introducing them to the God of the Word because nothing better ever comes close.

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There’s been a lot of request for me to post the interview I had in ANC with Edric Mendoza in his program “On The Money.” Thank you for the interest. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2no_Hh9WXKI

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:29 PM PDT

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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:23 PM PDT

I have observed this truth many times: In many cases, refusal to do what is right is not due to a lack of intelligence but due to pride, envy or greed. The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. This is why we watch our actions cautiously by watching our heart carefully.