Summary So Far
Our framework has been to explore how we might help our young people to interpret the world. How do we gain a perspective on tragedies and what responses we can make? It is also our responsibility to know that God’s world and people are deeply loved by Him and therefore we need to reflect His goodness and kindness.
We need to know the Bible well so that we can understand the nature of the Triune God and the lostness of humanity, but the wonderful redemptive heart of God.
We need to see within ourselves the potential for evil and for good. The grace of God has the power to change us to be more Christlike and His grace motivates us to strive towards that goal.
We have explored the seeming paradox that true freedom is actually having no choice – it is to live as willing and obedient servants of Christ and people.
We have urged one another to see kindness in the world and to know that it is a reflection of the Creator.
We have reminded ourselves that our kindness is a direct reflection of our understanding of God’s undeserved kindness to us.
This security of God’s goodness in a troubled and troubling world is assumed by younger children who are secured by the strong faith of their parents and Christian communities. However as young children develop, the need for answers to difficult questions increases. Many of those questions centre on the key questions relating to a perceived disconnection between God’s goodness and human tragedy. For example, when grandparents become frail and may suffer painful sicknesses; when young children die in tragic accidents, is it enough to simply say “God is Love”?
Let us continue to explore some of the hard questions.
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