Friday, March 6, 2009

Bobisms (cont)... the Anit Rules Nazi Rule

#3 It’s always easier to make a rule than to have a conversation…don’t do this. This is what I call the Anti Rules-Nazi Rule. Example: a handful of teenagers get sand in their hotel room b/c they didn’t wash their feet off after being at the beach. Don’t make a rule that says no teenagers can go to the beach or that no teenagers can be in someone else’s room. That’s stupid.
In other words, never make a universal rule for everyone when a hard conversation with a few (or one) will do the job. This is better not only for the group as a whole but it also builds relational credibility with people. I think it’s also Biblical.

1 comment:

The Prophet said...

THE BIBLIE AND THE DEPRESSION

"Then cometh Jesus with then unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples. Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." (Matthew 26,36-38)


I think depression is one of the most tragic of which passes through the soul of a person, and because it disfigures the depression self-esteem, self, a sense of transcendence, and other qualities that make man the biggest creations of God. It is an evil that seeks to dispel that image that God placed in us.
In the Bible there are cases of people like Abraham, Moses, King David, the prophet Jeremiah, the prophet Jonah, the Old Testament and New Testament in the case of the apostle Peter and Paul, and even of the Lord Jesus Christ through times of depression.
Sin however I just want to refer to the text of Matthew 26,36-46 in showing that the Lord Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples, suffered a great depression because they experience a profound sadness and a mortal agony. The Lord Jesus looms the intense suffering that was going to experiment until his death at the hands of the Jews, so they turned to the Lord for a prayer that she can regain the strength and peace I needed to face their prueba.
Siendo that the Lord your face depression as any man and found out to them in prayer, this may be a good choice whether you are taking medications as therapy or as an act of faith to level the emotions that are found in our hectic hearts