Keep Your Kids Quotes

“The Christian knows there’s a story involved. And this means that there’s no such thing as pointless pain. Everything has a point, and the point is maturity in Christ. That is our destination. Now the world does not think this way at all. We are living in the middle of a full-scale revolt against the very idea of maturity. The world is seeking to infantilize an entire generation, and they have, in great measure, succeeded. We see signs of arrested development everywhere, a refusal to assume responsibility for anything. More than a little of this kind of thinking has flooded into the church. We’re increasingly tempted to treat any suffering that we encounter as pointless. We get swallowed up by the pain, by the difficulty, by the affliction, and that becomes our whole world. How can there be a point if we don’t understand the point? Our bulwark against this infantilization needs to be godly discipline. The world wants everybody to stay stuck in their trauma, stuck in their pain, stuck in their victimhood. It wants to treat life like a snapshot. And we want to treat it like a video, a movie with a plot and an arc and a resolution.”
― Douglas Wilson, Keep Your Kids: How to Raise Strong Kids in an Age of Therapeutic Sentimentalism