“Trying new things in South Dunedin,” is the article called. (RISE: Issue 26 – March 2014, page 23)

“We are really failing our young people. As a community, we need to take a different, more coordinated and collaborate approach,” the reader is told in the middle of the writing.

“We are really failing our young people.”

On the same page we are also told that the attendance at school is not not as it should be, that young people commit crimes, that they use alcohol and drugs.

Our greatest failure is that we don’t approach our young people with the commandments  of the Bible.

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An expert in the Jewish Law asked the Lord Jesus Christ, “‘Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?'”

And what did the Lord Jesus Christ answer?

“Love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And this is, ‘Love others as much as you love yourself.’ All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.” (New Testament in Contemporary English, CEV)

We don’t tell the young people about the commandments of the Bible because we have not been told what God commands of us.

“Trying new things …”

Do you know the hymn “Tell me the old, old story?”

Here is the refrain:

“Tell me the old, old story,

tell me the old, old story,

tell me the old,old story,

Of Jesus and His love.”