Australia is a big drinking culture. I’m not proud of it and I remember travelling through Italy and being really surprised to see families out late at night enjoying the city, eating food without the drunken louts. Whereas in Sydney, I’d avoid taking my family out at night because of the drunken louts. It’s with some welcome surprise that I recently read that alcohol consumption amongst millennials is less than previous generations. What surprised me even more was the reasons for the change in attitudes and the growth of sober socializing!
You’ll be surprised too, so I’ve shot this super quick video for you highlighting the reasons for these winds of change and what it means for parenting our kids
Watch it now:
It’s a great example to our kids of the benefits of self-control and how the good life is embedded in God’s ‘statutes’ that he has woven into creation.
When we put into action God's wisdom we find the surprise that , hey this stuff really works! Funny that. So it's all the more surprising that we are so slow to act. Isn't it true that we often are 'covered in sores' and bruises from our life's collissions with God's precepts. "You will not surely die, you'll be fine...you know better, c'mon don't let God spoil your life!" All the doubting and questioning of God's wisdom is not new, but of old. But God's word stands as a testimony now and then for the good life. So let's show our kids and encourage them to 'come and see that the LORD is good'!
