not a fan 2

I finally get to watch the TV program not a fan from the beginning to the end yesterday. It’s just a short 30 minutes TV show. And I think the subtitle should be are you a fan or a follower of Jesus?

It has a pastor in the background telling the story. There’s a saying, often time we raise our child in the church, not in Christ. And that’s why a lot of kids leave the church right after they graduate from high school and go to college. This is like a simple but real answer for our puzzle.

There’s a book called, sticky faith. It talks about the same question and answer for it. And there’re separate versions for both teens and parents. And that answer it all. And how to adjust our way the raise our kids, we need a lot of practice of it. At the same the kids need a willing heart too.

In that TV program, it’s a sad ending. The father raises his kid exactly the wrong way, which he thought that’s the right way. So there’re a lot of conflicts between father and son.

Often time the father will say to the kid, according to which exact bible verses you should do or not do this or that. He try to help but using a condemn way and he, himself didn’t live out Jesus. That’s how his kid once he gets out of high school, he finally can have his own will to make choice, he leave the church and everything with it.

Of course that’s the most important answer but not the only one. But I believe that if we can live out Jesus. Show the kids how important and crucial to have this kind of faith in Jesus. They will be a followers not just fan or Jesus.

In the end of the story, the son try to tell him what‘s the right way to do and also forgive him. But the father somehow didn’t really accept it. Even when his son die from the heart attack, the father cry out to the GOD, say that I have done what you told me to why are you still take my son away.