Welcome Guy

Guy our school chaplain joined our small group today and helped out a flagging Rev. I’ve been shaking off a cold all week, arrived late to class and was basically somewhat out of it today so thanks mate for your input.

Values affect the choices we make

If you’re on a boat and you have to decide who gets kicked off your values will govern the choices that you make. Everyone picked on the ex prisoner because it was the easiest option. They can’t be trusted, they may re offend but mostly I think the students looked down on the ex prisoner as a social outcast. No picked on the wealthy business man who may have hurt more people without ever breaking the law.

Imprinted Values

Everyone has values like, stealing is wrong, war is bad, murder is wrong, telling the truth is good. We are brought up with these values but we know that they are real and true because these values on our hearts. We are each made in God’s image and the Ten Commandments are written on our hearts. That is why in every class we have done all students identify the same rules as being good, these rules happen to be the rules God has given to the world.

The Choice

Students struggle with how to enforce their values on the world. For example they may have decided that no war was going to be a rule for the world. So what do you do with people who want to war. God has given us his rules but he doesn’t force us or make us robots, he has given us a choice. That is why we so often lie, steal, cheat and hurt people, because we can, because it comes easily to us.

God’s Plan

Rather than imposing God’s rules on us God gives us the option of being changed from the inside out. You can lock up a murder and stop him from re offending but you have not changed him, he is still a murderer. To change that person you would need to change who they are, you would need to change their heart. God wants to change people from the inside out rather than from the outside in.

The challenge

Think about what you really value and how it is affecting the decisions that you make. the Rev