The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Peter 2:1-9, “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment…”

Education is just as subject to error as anything we might know or imagine. Few parents, I dare say, know little-to-nothing about the education of their children’s teachers. If the teacher himself received poor instruction, the children will hardly receive better. The same is true of religious instruction, be it formal or not. Habits are rarely formally instructed, but they are taught nevertheless. Be all of that as it may, someone has said that “children are like little sponges, they absorb what the hear and observe, often without thinking. Thus, teachers are inevitably culpable by default.

May we always be alert to the “teaching” we inadvertently share with others. Intended or not, we are constantly observed and imitated by those around us, especially admiring children. The wisdom of the Word says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he grows older, he will not abandon it” (Prov. 22:6).

Heartily in Christ,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

United States of America