May I Never Fail A Child Like This
by Samuel Febres
I read this article over at Relevant Magazine, and it’s the type of thing that seems common with most of the Christian Bubble kids I’ve known or have met (self included). Christian Bubble kids grew up in the church their whole lives, and all they’ve known or knew was the Christian world that was created for them to live in. They grow up learning what NOT to do with other sets of rules, and end up missing what a true life with GOD means.
The Christian bubble doesn’t only affect kids growing up sheilded or overly protected, but even people who have been saved for some amount of time seem to succumb to the mentality of the bubble; I’m protected and safe, I just need to keep the rules.
I pray to GOD I never fail my children by raising them up in this way. A quote from the article is below. I hope you read it and consider how you relate to the world around you. If you have kids, I hope you don’t make them bubble boys and girls.
I didn’t know what to say the first time someone offered me drugs, so I said yes. I was not equipped for things like that, because in my world, in my bubble, only “bad†people did that. We weren’t “those†kind of people.
Well, what are “those†kind of people? It turns out I am one. Bitter from life in a church where nothing seemed realistic, I took cover in things that seemed logical to me. It did not seem logical that “we,” the fundamentalist Christians, could be so passionately pro-life but simultaneously so anti-life We marginalize the “outsiders†of the faith. We don’t associate with anyone who would bring us down. Life sometimes doesn’t look so pretty, and to truly show someone what God’s love looks like, I believe, we have to be willing to reach them there. But I hadn’t been taught that.