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One thing that people all over the world are in one accord with is that the youth advertise@myriver.com
of today are the leaders of tomorrow. It makes sense then that we should spend
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you fall into bed at night.” Jesus encourages us further to accept His words as and their direct family may participate in any of
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they are young. Solomon writes in the Proverbs that we should train our children
in the way they should be going in their future when they are young, and that The views expressed in articles, letters, and
when they reach a mature age they won’t depart from it since it is already writ- pictures are the responsibility of the respective
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The moment that those who are responsible for the training of the youth falter in MyFaith Magazine - the acceptance of
their mandate and mess with the education system of a community we are in
for a rough future. Unfortunately, the world over, a humanistic approach to life advertisements does not indicate
has eroded the responsibility of adults training the young by wrongfully empow- editorial endorsement
ering the immature in favour of the mature. Examples are heard in the news liter-
ally every day where the rights of parents have been encroached upon, and
where children have the ‘legal right’ to sue their parents for assumed wrongs.
The basic problem of our New Age society (seemingly the pervading world-
view) is absolutes have been removed and replaced with human rights; I see
“human rights” the same way that I see discipline – there can be no real un-
derstanding of the rights we have outside of the borders of an absolute. The
absolutes I am speaking about are the parameters set in place by the Great
Designer of everything. God has kindly left us an instruction manual explaining
all the laws that govern the world and those who dwell on earth. It is within this
context only that we can take up our rightful place in ensuring we equip a future
generation to take up the torch and make earth a better place for all.
Our responsibility has been broadened in South Africa due to the very large
proportion of young people in our population demographic; this is largely due
to the effects of AIDS and TB (1 out of every 10 South Africans suffer from the lat-
ter), the resultant deaths of adults and the growing population of orphans. We
need to embrace our educational responsibility and ensure that we create an
environment that is safe, friendly and open to growth for all our children.