Comments on: Thou Shalt Not: The Staggering Importance of "No" http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sally Johnson http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Sally Johnson Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:44:00 +0000 http://rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/#comment-179 Hi Rachel,<br/>I am new to your blog, and I really enjoyed this post. Good thinking. And for this good thinking, I have awarded you a Thinking Blogger Award. Go to my blog to see how to pick it up.<br/>Sally Hi Rachel,
I am new to your blog, and I really enjoyed this post. Good thinking. And for this good thinking, I have awarded you a Thinking Blogger Award. Go to my blog to see how to pick it up.
Sally

]]> By: Libby Russell http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Libby Russell Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:50:00 +0000 http://rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/#comment-175 Exactly! I read an article in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis a few weeks ago about a psychologist who recently wrote a book about what he calls "DDD" --discipline deficit disorder. He says the recurrently worsening behaviors and attitudes of children and teenagers in America is a direct result of parents who bend to their child's every whim and who never curb them with "negatives." This guy who wrote the book was coming from a worldly perspective, but even he could see the idiocy of letting children raise themselves rather than parents raising children. <br/><br/>"No" is such a basic necessity of parenting, it boggles my mind to think it's in so much question nowadays. <br/><br/>Great post! Exactly! I read an article in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis a few weeks ago about a psychologist who recently wrote a book about what he calls “DDD” –discipline deficit disorder. He says the recurrently worsening behaviors and attitudes of children and teenagers in America is a direct result of parents who bend to their child’s every whim and who never curb them with “negatives.” This guy who wrote the book was coming from a worldly perspective, but even he could see the idiocy of letting children raise themselves rather than parents raising children.

“No” is such a basic necessity of parenting, it boggles my mind to think it’s in so much question nowadays.

Great post!

]]> By: Ted Gossard http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Ted Gossard Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:53:00 +0000 http://rachelstarrthomson.com/2007/04/thou-shalt-not-the-staggering-importance-of-no/#comment-173 Rachel, Yes. Just as Scripture says, "The grace of God teaches us to SAY NO to ungodliness and worldly passions and live self-controled, upright and godly lives in this present age...<br/><br/>Living in the Spirit means not living according to the flesh and what animates the world.<br/><br/>I think many people of my generation and others have reacted to a "legalism" grounded in a list of "do nots" that was not grounded well in Scripture or dependent on the Spirit's work. Certainly to be "in the Spirit" (Romans 8) does not mean we don't have to say, "No." We certainly do.<br/><br/>Great post! Thanks. Rachel, Yes. Just as Scripture says, “The grace of God teaches us to SAY NO to ungodliness and worldly passions and live self-controled, upright and godly lives in this present age…

Living in the Spirit means not living according to the flesh and what animates the world.

I think many people of my generation and others have reacted to a “legalism” grounded in a list of “do nots” that was not grounded well in Scripture or dependent on the Spirit’s work. Certainly to be “in the Spirit” (Romans 8) does not mean we don’t have to say, “No.” We certainly do.

Great post! Thanks.

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