Titus 2:2-3 Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. (from THE MESSAGE)
The Most Terrible Loss, Of A Load Of Old Bulls
Regarding the questions as to whether or not elephants have good memories, an American reporter in Chicago recently recorded the following incident at the Chicago Zoo:
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It probably wasn't the same elephant.”
For some years now teenage pachyderms have been roaming in wild and angry packs, seemingly reeking revenge on human settlements in their area. An examination of the increasingly savage problem of young elephants on the rampage, tusking each other to death, vandalising crops and houses and killing human beings, seems to indicate that it is linked to the killing of old bulls. In other words, a major problem in elephant herds has been that of absent fathers and the destruction of the secure mentoring of a patriarchal system. Without the strength and leadership and no doubt the giving of ‘a good slap of an old trunk behind large floppy ears,’ the teenagers have had all boundaries removed and in the end have just gone wild. You will forgive the poor pun.
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There is a call out tonight then, to all seemingly younger folks in the church of the living God. I am afraid that many of you need to grow up real quickly. Where the older bulls have been blown away or have blown it, you in great maturity must now grow up quickly and lead the way in wisdom and patriarchal manliness. If this is true for the young men of our churches, then may I say that it is even more applicable to the young women. You too must grow up and lead the way in godliness, honour and true love among the sisters.
It’s time to rid the world of these chav-like packs of pitiful packyderms! We can only do that by letting men be men, letting them live like men and allowing them to teach the younger blokes. Only men can teach boys how to be men. If this is not honoured in action, then all we can expect in our world is rampage, killing and wild anarchy. I am afraid this is the awful truth.
Listen: - Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behaviour. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives. (Titus 2:3-6 from THE MESSAGE)
Pray:- Lord, help us to be, in the most irreligious and un-pompous of ways, to become the very best of ear- flicking mentors. In Jesus name we ask it, amen.
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