TEEN TERRORS!--Crime & Punishment!
DO 1512
5/83
[HomeARC note (9/98): The Charter is the current source of Family policy and rules regarding the discipline of minors.]
1. (MARIA: RECENTLY WE RECEIVED A REPORT OF SOME PROBLEMS WHICH OCCURRED IN ONE OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS with three of the teenage boys, one of whom was the ringleader & instigator of a whole rash of deceptive, violent, malicious, dirty, very unloving & unChristian activities. The boys participated in fights against the neighbourhood gangs, damaged neighbours' houses & even their own Home (while blaming it on the younger children!), fights amongst themselves, lying & unwillingness to confess to anything whenever questioned, dirty & unwholesome attitudes towards sex, etc. Below is Dad's reaction when he heard the sad news!:)
2. IF I WERE THERE, I'D THRASH THOSE GUYS GOOD & TEACH THEM A LESSON THEY'D NEVER FORGET! Boy, I'll tell you, I was good to my kids & I was patient & I was loving & I was kind, but if they'd kept up that kind of obstreperous rebellious absolutely devilish meanness, they woulda been sorry they ever had anything to do with it! Boy oh boy! Their parents ought to be ashamed!
3. I'LL TELL YOU, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PEOPLE IN THE FAMILY! We're not going to have that kind of teenagers! Our teenagers are either going to behave & appreciate the Family & appreciate what we do for them & appreciate their parents & take care of their younger brothers & sisters & be shining examples of Jesus Christ & His Love, or if they're going to act like the Devil, we're going to send them back to Hell where they came from!
4. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SHINING EXAMPLES TO THE HEATHEN, BUT WITH TEENAGERS LIKE THAT, WE'RE SHINING EXAMPLES OF THE DEVIL! What a reflection on the Family & on the Lord! (Maria: And what a terrible sample to our little children, our younger people!) And any fathers & mothers that tolerate that kind of behaviour, are not the right kind of fathers & mothers! If they can't straighten out their teenagers & keep'm under control & make them behave & set them enough of a good example to make them want to behave & to be good, & to be good shining examples of what a Christian ought to be, then we ought to kick out the whole family!
5. BELONGING TO THIS FAMILY IS A PRIVILEGE & A BLESSING & AN HONOUR!--AND ANYBODY THAT DISHONOURS THIS FAMILY LIKE THAT DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE A MEMBER! We don't want it believed or thought or known that we've got any kind of members like that or children like that, much less such parents who tolerate children like that! I'm not going to tolerate it! If I hear of any more teenagers like that, we're going to get rid of'm! And that's it! Period! I never tolerated any such behaviour in this Family! My kids never pulled a trick like that in their lives!--They'd have known better! I'd have [disciplined] them within an inch of their lives if they did!--And they knew it!
6. MY CHILDREN TREATED ME WITH RESPECT & OBEYED ME. And look how they turned out, thank God! The only one that I was never able to discipline because her mother constantly rebelled & disobeyed & protected her & defied me & came between us, was Deborah, & look what happened to her! This is a war & they are soldiers, & we absolutely cannot tolerate any kind of foolish vandalism & mischievousness that acts as a reflection on the Family & harms our neighbours & shows lack of appreciation & gratitude for their hospitality & their country!
7. THAT'S ONE THING THAT THEY NEVER COULD HAVE ACCUSED ME OF, THAT I COULDN'T CONTROL MY KIDS, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE BIG TEENAGERS! I thank God that my teenagers feared me as well as loved me! Any parent whose children don't fear him as well as love him, is no parent like God!--We not only love God, but we fear Him! We know He won't tolerate any foolishness & won't let us get away with anything, & we're not going to let them get away with anything either!
8. (MARIA: LOOK WHO WE HAD IN HUNTINGTON BEACH, THEY WERE ALMOST ALL TEENS! Some of them were 14, 15 & 16 years old, but they were expected to carry the responsibility of adults! They didn't get away with anything!) Nothing! And one reason for it was that I cracked the whip! I lowered the boom if we had anybody that stepped out of line in any way! But we had hardly anybody do it because they were there for a purpose. They were sincere! They were serious soldiers of Jesus Christ, not playing around!
9. (MARIA: THEY KNEW IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO GET TO STAY AT THE CLUB.)--To be where they had the Truth & Jesus & an opportunity to serve the Lord & help others, to preach the Gospel! We can't have a bad reputation on the mission field. I'd rather be guilty of all the other things they accuse us of, rather than have misbehaving children that are not shining examples of the Lord. I don't ever want them to point a finger at us & tell us we're not good parents & we don't know how to make our children behave & can't keep our kids under control! To me, that's the worst kind of a reflection on parenthood.
10. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PARENTS?--THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW! (Maria: You reap what you sow!) (Ga.6:7) These so-called teenage delinquents, I'd say there's something delinquent about the parents that have such children! It's the old story, "Who Are the Rebels?" Any parents that have kids who do stunts like that, there must be something wrong with them!
11. ALL YOU PARENTS HAD BETTER GET YOUR LITTLE RASCALS STRAIGHTENED OUT or we're going to throw the whole bunch of you out, if we have to start all over again! Period! That's enough! I'm just furious! I don't want to ever hear a report like that again! Parents, you either get your kids under control & teach'm how to behave & how to be shining examples of Christian young people, or out they & you both go! Period! That's it, we're just not going to have it. If I ever hear of any other juvenile delinquency like that in our Family, out the delinquents are going to go, & this is their last warning right now! Out they're going to go & their parents with them!
12. THE PARENTS ARE THE DELINQUENTS WHO HAVEN'T TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN TO BEHAVE ANY BETTER THAN THAT & ALLOWED THEM TO GET AWAY WITH THAT KIND OF THING! Good trees don't produce bad fruit, & that's bad fruit! (Mt.7:18) Something's wrong with the parents, & until they can get themselves straightened out & their kids straightened out, they'd better get out! Those parents had better learn how to get their kids under control & [put] the fear of God into them so they'll behave & be scared to death not to!--And put the Love of God into them to teach them how to want to behave, to love the Lord & their Family & their parents & want to behave, or something's wrong!
13. OUR KIDS ARE EITHER GOING TO BE OUR GREATEST WITNESS & testimony, as they have been, or that kind of behaviour could be the worst kind of testimony & the worst kind of reflection on us, & we're just not going to have it, period!
14. TEACHERS OR LEADERS OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOUR & tolerating it & letting them get away with it & doing nothing about it don't deserve to be rulers in the Family of God if they can't make their own students & their own people behave! (1Tim.3:4-5) He that cannot rule his own family & his own household, cannot be a ruler of the Church of God! Period! I'll fire the kids, I'll fire the parents, I'll fire the Shepherds, I'll fire the leaders who tolerate that kind of behaviour in this Family, & I mean it! They oughtta resign! They're not fit to rule the house of God!
15. I WANT ANY SUCH KIND OF BEHAVIOUR REPORTED IMMEDIATELY, & DISCIPLINED IMMEDIATELY, OR OUT THEY GO!--And out go their parents & their leaders too who tolerate it!--Excommunicated! I want reports right now from all parents & leaders who are having any kind of problems like that whatsoever. I want to know about it. Failure to report a crime is a crime! So anybody who knows anything about any such behaviour, please tell us, & we'll see that it gets action, & tough stiff action!
16. THAT'S NOT THE LORD, THAT'S NOT CHRISTIAN, THAT'S NOT LOVE, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE LIVING FOR & DYING FOR! That's the very essence of what we're against, the very kind of deviltry we're fighting, characteristic of the World.
17. WELL, LET'S THANK GOD THAT NOT ALL OF OUR KIDS ARE LIKE THAT, that we've got mostly good kids who are real Christians & who really love the Lord & are really serving Jesus & really mean business! Let me tell you, that's the only kind of kids we're going to have, we're never going to hear of that kind of behaviour of our children again in this Family, ever, or they'll no longer be in the Family! This is our last warning to both the kids & their parents!
18. WE CANNOT & WILL NOT ALLOW SUCH FRIGHTFUL ACTIVITIES BY ANYONE IN OUR FAMILY!--It's an extremely poor testimony, to say the least!--It could hurt & endanger the whole Family & hinder our ministry. This is a very serious case & the first in the Family that we know of, & we intend to nip it in the bud & put such teeth into this disciplinary action as to deter any more such juvenile delinquency & parental or supervisory neglect or failure to live up to Family standards of Christian training & behaviour that could seriously affect the Family!
19. MAY GOD FORBID THAT WE HAVE ANY MORE SUCH TRAGIC CASES!--But if ever, we intend to treat them in like manner, punishing both parents, supervisors & juveniles involved by similar means! Incorrigibles will be expelled from the Family, sent home to relatives or depart with their parents & remain excommunicated & out of the Family until certified as permanently cured!--Sorry! Please read together Heb.12:1-13.--Thanks for your cooperation in this heartbreaking tragedy! WLY&PFY continually.
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