Bible Study

Postscript to Lessons from poor friends:

Piper, my daughter, has now decided God wants her to start a Bible study. She asked five girls. All agreed to participate in the girls only, no adults Bible study. They will meet in a coffee shop or a local café or a doughnut shop… anywhere but church. If I were to ask her why not church, she would likely explain she doesn’t trust church youth leaders and tell me church is not much different than high school. There are clicks and fitting in. The meanness. The exclusion. The falseness of it all. Her perception is that church is as difficult, if not more difficult, than high school because she has no expectations of high school to be kind to her or allow for her faults. 

In less than twelve months, God has changed her life, her passions, her friends, her priorities, her self worth, and even her relationship with her twelve year old brother.  They now spend a time together and have a relationship on their terms, not mine or their mother’s.    

All because she held fast and didn’t compromise. She understood not to settle again. Settling is yielding to pressure and following the herd. Following the herd does not produce joy. It does not produce excellence. It does not produce strength. She understood she wanted to live instead of just endure; to be strengthened by peers instead of be weakened by them. 

Her life changed because she didn’t give up on God. I am proud. Honored God gave me a daughter like her to care for.  

Have a good and godly day.