With each generation we must start over.
Little children do not know what we know.
It is our obligation to pass on what we have learned to the next generation.
But it is no use merely indoctrinating them into some Orthodox belief system.
Most of them are wrong in any case.
We must show them what we have learned from our experience.
Jesus said: "'first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take he speck out of your neighbor's eye.'" Matthew 7:5 (NRSV)
And so we give our truth to the next generation.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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