{"id":1356,"date":"2011-09-02T05:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T09:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2011-08-27T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:47:01","slug":"gps-gods-parenting-system-giving-your-children-a-good-conscience-through-good-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2011\/09\/gps-gods-parenting-system-giving-your-children-a-good-conscience-through-good-modelling.html","title":{"rendered":"GPS (God’s Parenting System) Giving your children a Good Conscience Through Good Modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Timothy 1:3-7 As I urged you… to teach no other doctrine…5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, 6 from which some, having strayed, have turned aside…understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
My dad never cussed. \u00a0Not once. \u00a0And everytime we watched a TV show as a kid where someone did, you could hear him grown or mumble something like, \u201cI just hate that…\u201d \u00a0If it occurred more than once in 10 minutes, he would turn the show off. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There were certain shows, like THREE\u2019S COMPANY that we were not allowed to watch -nor did he- even though DON KNOTTS (one of his favorite actors from Andy Griffith) was on the show. \u00a0\u00a0That impacted me. \u00a0The past three years I have walked out of half a dozen movies. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m not nearly as sensitive as my dad and the movies \u00a0have gotten far, far worse… BUT, when the filth grows in a movie, I can feel the traffic truths laid down by my father come up on my INTERNAL NAVIGATOR.<\/p>\n

The conscience search mechanism operates evaluating a situation for moral liability, and then responding by looking for maps and truths laid down upon it in the past. \u00a0If it finds a corresponding value, it activates a warning and prompts a moral solution. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We need to demonstrate to our kids how to search for the right maps and apply them to situations.<\/p>\n

I heard a man talk about how his father trained his conscience. One Sunday an elderly man came into church late. He entered the room with no place to sit. \u00a0THis young man noticed and immediately, almost instinctively got up and offered his chair to this older man. Why? His conscience evaluated the situation. Older man, many years his senior had no place to sit… Search for map… \u00a0Found one, \u201cYou shall rise for the grey headed, and honor the presence of an old man and fear your God.\u201d Lev 19:32. \u00a0\u00a0This truth turned into a map, and that map was acted on. \u00a0His dad had trained the terrain with truth.<\/p>\n

In the movie BLAST FROM THE PAST, Brendon Fraiser goes underground for 20 years in fear of a nuclear bomb. When he returns to the American culture, he is interacting with two twenty somethings who have never seen a young man with a trained conscience.<\/p>\n