Priciple of substitution.

[hac84]

If you don't remember it from your teen years, I will try to explain. When you give something up, you need to replace it with something. Teens who gave up their wicked Micheal Jackson, Elvis and Conway Twitty needed to replace it. Often they were given cassettes of "The Voices of Sanctification" tour group or the greatest hits of the pastor's daughter. Kind of like telling you that tea tastes just like CocaCola.
What are your experiences with this? Can you suggest some good substitutions for dancing, TV, movies, jeans, or other pet sin of rebellious teenagers.

[Lizzy F.]

I hated the whole substitution thing. Quality TV was replaced by crappy TV, interesting books replaced by drivel (especially in women's fiction), and interest in other branches of Christianity were replaced with hearing the same messages over and over again about how WE were so correct about everything.

I rebelled against this as much as I could.

[Tony Mel]

Mark Twain replaced by Jim Berg?

[exIFB]

Batman replaced by BatChristian.

[captain_solo]

Richard Simmons replaced by Patch the Pirate?



I do remember this heresy. The proof text was the demons that returned and brought their friends. It wasn't enough to clean out the bad you had to put in the good. Of course the good was not the Holy Spirit but a pile of human excrement (er. Good works)

[Darren]

(01-27-2011 12:27 PM)Lizzy F. Wrote:  I hated the whole substitution thing. Quality TV was replaced by crappy TV, interesting books replaced by drivel (especially in women's fiction), and interest in other branches of Christianity were replaced with hearing the same messages over and over again about how WE were so correct about everything.

Yeah, I heard this taught, too, but ideas for replacement never really went beyond music and TV.

I hear what you are saying about fiction for girls. That is one area (of many, probably) where it is probably better to be a guy than a girl growing up in fundyism. I was allowed to do a book report on 1984 in my fundy high school.

[supernova8610]

It's like some in the IFBx world think girls are stupid and that their mental faculties aren't as up to par as guys' are.

[Apathetic or whatever]

I remember, as a teenage boy, hearing sermons about how to control "impure thoughts" by singing hymns and memorizing Bible verses.

[supernova8610]

(01-28-2011 01:54 AM)Apathetic or whatever Wrote:  I remember, as a teenage boy, hearing sermons about how to control "impure thoughts" by singing hymns and memorizing Bible verses.

I'm not discounting that that might work in some respects, but did these people even think of prayer? It can be pretty darn powerful.

[hac84]

(01-28-2011 01:50 AM)supernova8610 Wrote:  It's like some in the IFBx world think girls are stupid and that their mental faculties aren't as up to par as guys' are.

Some of the girls in the IFBx world ARE stupid. (So are some of the guys.) They get sent off to HAC to fulfill God's will- find a MOG, fill his quiver, fold his laundry, fix his vittles and inflate his ego.