to profit by our mistakes if we are willing to identify them. They are ready to build on our structure if we are willing to gird it with hon est evaluation and sound counsel. Do we show our own insecurity when we attempt to dissuade them as they dare to venture out into new concepts? Or perhaps worse, do we attempt to persuade them to follow our life style completely? Why is it that we project the "over-protective parent" image when such questions come to our attention? Is it because the idea of change causes us to think in terms of having fallen short, or having failed in our generation? If such is the case then we most certainly have some serious think ing to do. But, after all, that is what our freeways are fo r. . . free(way) thinking. No one is there to in terrupt us before we have a chance to put it all together. We drive along and develop our initial premise. We then offer it to someone else, just as I am offering it to you, not as a conclusion, but as a thought provoker, an issue that can lead to further consideration.
not vocationally oriented are w ill ing to continue as they are, does this set the precedent for those who follow? Are we to drum into our young people the idea that "God's best" is always college, seminary, and then full-time service? Are we, by our silence, or by our own life style to trap them into a guilt feeling if they dare to question the possi bility of entering some vocational learning experience prior to mov ing into a pastor's study or a Chris tian education director's office as their ultimate station in life? It is true that life styles have changed since the day when Christ walked the roads around Galilee. And yet He must have had a rea son for being concerned with us ing the fishermen, the carpenters, those with an M.B.A. degree (a nic er way of identifying tax collectors); men who walked among men! Can we afford to overlook completely His concept of preparation? How do we counsel these young people? They are desirous of think ing and doing for themselves; that is true. They are also willing and eager to hear from us. They want
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