![]() ![]() The fact is, our children are born into a world of authority. ![]() “There is a natural resistance to authority in every child who has been born since the fall of Adam and Eve,” Tripp writes, and this resistance to authority, more than anything else, is the thing that, apart from God’s grace, separates us and our children from God. Not surprisingly, our children are born into this same struggle. ![]() We like to believe we can control our own lives-that we should be the ultimate authority over what we do and how we live. When was the last time you wished you could just do what you want, regardless of what those around you want? Was it sometime in the last hour? In the last 5 minutes? As Paul Tripp notes in chapter 8, “Authority,” we humans have a strong attraction to self-rule. Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul Tripp ![]()
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