Living Inheritance

 Last night, we wrapped up our discussion of Andy Stanley's, Enemies of the Heart.   He identifies the enemies as anger, guilt, greed and jealousy.  The primary weapons that God has given us to combat these enemies are forgiveness, confession, generosity and celebration of other's success, in that order.  The last chapter of the book encourages us to pass on what we have learned.  We can pass along what we have learned to anyone, but we have the most influence with our kids.   The first way we can help our kids is by demonstrating the kind of responses that Andy has been encouraging throughout this book.  We can also tell them what to do, but Andy encourages us to ask questions instead of delivering a sermon.   "Are you mad at anybody?" "Did anybody hurt your feelings today?" "Is there anything you need to tell me?"  While most of us were thinking about young kids at home while reading this, we agreed that this approach is probably good with grown kids as well.  I know I was convicted that I need to do this more.