{"id":5596,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-cure-for-unruly-boys\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:03","slug":"the-cure-for-unruly-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-cure-for-unruly-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"THE\n  CURE FOR UNRULY BOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Discipline; Encouragement; Ministry; Pastors<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 2:6\u20138<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I pastored a little congregation near Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii. I always had a large supply of muscular recruits.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The young, mostly single marines had great hearts but not much tact. When out of uniform and away from their sergeant, they just stood around waiting for someone to tell them what to do.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>At a Sunday school leaders\u2019 meeting, several women teachers described their discipline problems with young boys. They couldn\u2019t control the boys for the hour-long Bible lesson. They had tried everything and were ready to quit.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I grabbed a couple of marines and told them to go into the Sunday school rooms and put a couple of boys under each arm. \u201cRough them up and sit on them,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The women were horrified, thinking the strategy bordered on child abuse, but the little boys loved it. Our discipline problems were solved by placing one marine per room to hold unruly boys while the teacher taught the lesson. In one Sunday I came to realize how every pastor needs a \u201cfew good men\u201d!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Robert Hicks, in <i>Men of Integrity<\/i> (July\/August 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Discipline; Encouragement; Ministry; Pastors References: 1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 2:6\u20138 I pastored a little congregation near Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in Hawaii. I always had a large supply of muscular recruits. The young, mostly single marines had great hearts but not much tact. When out of uniform and away from their sergeant, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-cure-for-unruly-boys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE<br \/>\n  CURE FOR UNRULY BOYS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}