BRING IT HOME
THE KIDS LOOK LIKE US
DR. JIM DIXON
AUGUST 23, 2009
EPHESIANS 6:1-4
In the year 1990 the United States Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health combined to launch the Human Genome Project. This was big in the news, you might remember, in 1990 and really through that decade. The word genome combines the word gene and the word chromosome. Genome. And the goals of the Human Genome Project were these: first of all, to identify all of the approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes in human DNA. Secondly, to determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical-based pairs that make up human DNA. And then thirdly, to store this information in databases. Fourthly, to improve tools for data analysis. Fifthly, to transfer related technologies to the private sector. And finally, to address the ethical, legal, and social issues related to the project.
The project was scheduled to span 15 years, and because of advanced technology was actually completed in 13 years. So it was completed in the year 2003. And maybe you don’t care. Maybe you don’t care about the Human Genome Project, but it’ll affect so many things in the field of science and technology for decades and decades to come. And even if you don’t care about the HGP, you have to care about DNA. I mean, everyone ought to care about DNA because DNA affects the way you look. Your DNA affects the way you process food or even the way you don’t process food. Your DNA affects the way that you handle disease, your susceptibility to various cancers. That’s all determined by your DNA and your DNA even affects your behavior.
Now, as human beings, our behavior is very complex. It’s not just affected by nature, it’s also affected by nurture. It’s not just affected by nature and nurture. Our human behavior is also affected by autonomy, by volition, by free will and choice. So all of these complexities are involved in human behavior. But DNA is so important and we pass it on to our kids, and our parents pass it on to us. If we adopt kids, we don’t pass on our DNA, but we still have to deal with the DNA that was passed on to them. And your children may struggle with alcoholism partly because of their DNA. Your children may partly struggle with temper management and anger issues because of their DNA. Your children may have particular struggles with relationship to sexual orientation partly because of DNA.
Your children may struggle with all kinds of issues medically and all kinds of issues in terms of illness and disease because of DNA. DNA impacts so many things in our lives and in the lives of our kids. And this is why ultimately only God can judge us. Aren’t you glad of that? Ultimately, only God can judge us. Only God knows the complexity of who we are. Only God knows the DNA you are dealing with. And you might be really sunshiney and sunny side up and happy personality and pleasant and wonderful to be around. But maybe you just have good DNA and maybe your spouse is kind of grumpy and irritable, but maybe your spouse really has bad DNA and is actually doing pretty well with what they have. See, only God can judge that, right? Only God can judge that.
Of course, we deal with all these things as parents, as we’re seeking to deal with the uniqueness of each child. But this morning, I want us to take a look at a different kind of DNA this morning. I want us to take a look at Divine DNA. I want us to take a look at spiritual DNA. I want us to take a look at God’s DNA. God’s DNA is God’s nature. God’s DNA is God’s character. God’s characteristics represent His DNA. God’s DNA is summed up in love, for the Bible says God is love. God’s DNA is summed up in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which the Bible describes as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. That’s all part of God’s DNA.
And as parents, we want some of that divine DNA for ourselves, and we want to be able to impart that divine DNA to our kids. But how do we do that? I mean, how do we transfer some of God’s DNA to our kids, and how do we even acquire it for ourselves? Well, I want us to look at a few ways in which we can impart divine DNA to our children.
First of all, evangelism. This relates to what we said last week. If you want to give divine DNA to your kids, you must evangelize them. Now, we saw last week that everyone in the world has some of the divine DNA. We saw last week that everyone in the world, every human being, is created in the imago Dei. We looked at Genesis chapter one and we saw the image and likeness of God given to men. We looked at Genesis two, we saw that God breathed into men’s nostrils, imparting the breath of life. And indeed, he became a “nephesh,” a living soul. So we saw this uniqueness of man, that the breath of God is upon man and we are his inspiration. We are the crown of his creation, and all of humanity is touched by the Imago Dei. So there’s a little bit of divine DNA in everybody.
We also saw last week that mankind has fallen. So we’re all messed up. We’re all messed up, and all that divine DNA in the imago Dei is broken in us. It’s hard for people to see the nature of God in us sometimes. But the Bible says that when you accept Jesus Christ, an amazing thing happens. The Bible says, when you accept Jesus Christ (this is 2 Corinthians chapter five) you become a new creation.
When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you become a new creation and you are given a new nature. In 2 Corinthians 5:1 and John chapter three we’re told that when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you’re born into the family of God and you are given God’s nature. There’s a sense in which when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you’re born into His family. You become a child of God; the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ becomes your Father and you’re given something of the Father’s DNA. This is amazing stuff, and we really understand it when we look at John 14. In John 14, Jesus is talking to the disciples. Jesus is trying to explain to the disciples He’s not going to be around on this earth much longer. He’s about to go to the Father. He’s about to ascend to heaven, and He’s going to have to pass through death by crucifixion. But He tells the disciples that He’s going to send the Holy Spirit in a new and fresh way. He’s going to call upon the third person of the Trinity. So Jesus says to the disciples, right now, the Holy Spirit is with you, but the day is coming soon, when the Holy Spirit will be in you. This is a very important distinction. Jesus is saying to His disciples, the Holy Spirit is with you, but the day’s coming soon when the Holy Spirit’s going to be in you.
So then you move to John chapter 20, verse 22. The disciples are in the upper room. Jesus has died, crucified, but Jesus rises from the dead and He appears to the disciples behind closed doors. And they marvel to see the resurrected Son of God. He tells them, “Peace unto you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you.” And then the Bible tells us an amazing thing. Jesus breathes on the disciples the breath of God. Jesus breathes on the disciples saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Now we understand John 14, “The Holy Spirit is with you, but will be in you.” So Jesus imparts the Holy Spirit within them. He breathes on them the presence of God to dwell within them.
Then you come to Acts chapter one. In Acts chapter two, you see the Pentecost experience and the Holy Spirit comes upon the whole company of those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and indwells them. And then we’re told in the Bible, and particularly in Romans eight, that as the gospel is preached and as people accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, in that moment, now, wherever it happens, anywhere in the world, the Holy Spirit comes in.
It says in Romans eight that if you don’t have the Holy Spirit, if you don’t have the spirit of Christ living within you, tabernacled within you, you do not belong to Christ. So this is the experience we have as Christians. We’ve accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and He sent this new nature into us, and it’s divine DNA. We have become new creations. He has sent the Spirit of God to dwell and tabernacle within us, bringing this divine DNA, this this new nature. This nature is characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithful and self-control. But of course, we’re still messed up. We’re still fallen; we’re still sinners.
So, here we are. The breath of God was given to mankind in the beginning, but the imago Dei is broken and we have fallen into sin. There’s none righteous, no, not one. But now, as we’ve come to the foot of the cross and received Jesus, the Lord and Savior, Jesus has sent this new nature and the person, the Holy Spirit, within us. It’s divine DNA, it’s the nature of God. But the old nature, the sin nature, is still there. And so you understand how important it is to evangelize your children. You understand how important it is to share the gospel with your sons and daughters, that they might embrace Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and receive and become children of God and receive His nature in the person of the Holy Spirit who will come into them.
Do you understand this? I mean, this is just biblical theology. It’s been taught by the Church of Christ for hundreds of years, but we live in a post-Christian era, and not many are aware of these things. So it’s so important to evangelize your kids right off the bat, and as soon as I reach an age of accountability (and that might be somewhere between like five and eight), you share with them how important it’s to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior from sin. Because He died for the sin of the world. He died in our place, and He wants you to accept Him as Savior. He’ll wash you whiter than snow and forgive you of your sins, past, present, future.
Then receive Him as Lord, for He is the Son of God. He’ll bring you into His family, and His Father will become your Father. And so you teach your children that this is part of what Christians have done down through the centuries. This is the first way in which we pass on the spiritual DNA. This is the first way the nature of God is passed on: through rebirth.
Now, there’s a second thing we must do if we would pass on God’s DNA. We must nurture our kids in the Bible. I know most of you have heard of Dan Quayle. I mean, Dan Quayle was Vice President of the United States, a man of some education, a man of some intelligence, a man of some accomplishment, and a great golfer. I mean, today, when you see Dan Quayle, it’s usually in some celebrity golf tournament, something like that. People make fun of Dan Quayle. Barb showed me this last week, a website which is devoted entirely to Dan Quayle bloopers—all the verbal bloopers that Dan Quayle has made down through the years. And it’s pages and pages and pages long. And these are alleged bloopers of Dan Quayle. And if you read them, some of them are pretty funny.
His most famous blooper, of course, was a statement he made to the United Negro College Fund. The United Negro College Fund seeks to raise money for the education of African American children. Their motto, their slogan, is, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” And so Dan QUAIL was at a United Negro College Fund convention. And he was the speaker and the banners, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” were on the wall, but they were behind him. And he began to speak and he wanted to begin with that motto. He wanted to begin with that slogan. So he started out and he said, “What a terrible thing…” and he knew he was already in trouble. He knew he was already in trouble, and he didn’t know where to go from there. And he said, “What a terrible thing to lose your mind.”
People were kind of looking at each other and he knew he had blown it. And then he tried to regather himself. He says, “Or not to have a mind.” And now people were really looking at each other. And that’s called a blooper. And Dan has done a number of them. But you know, Dan Quayle has been proven right about many things. One was that big controversy you might remember regarding Murphy Brown, the TV program. I mean, Dan Quayle said, this is irresponsible of Hollywood to glorify out of wedlock birth. He said, this is going to lead to the ruination of our culture in the United States of America when we celebrate and glorify out of wedlock birth. And Dan Quayle has been proven right. So here we are today, and now incredibly, incomprehensively, 40% of the babies born in the United States of America are born out of wedlock.
What that’s going to mean for our nation’s future is scary. We are a culture in decline. I promise you, despite our glorified technological attainments, despite all of our educational advancements, we are a culture in decline. We have no self-control. And of course, for our children growing up in this culture, they have countless examples of misbehavin’. Just recently the whole nation heard about Rick Pitino, coach of the Louisville basketball team and how he committed adultery after drinking late into the night in a restaurant, and later allegedly paid for the abortion of the child that was conceived. Just recently, news has come out over many media outlets concerning Josh Hamilton, the great baseball player for the Texas Rangers, who had a tragic three year period of his life where he was dysfunctionally addicted to alcohol and hard drugs and then found Jesus Christ and regathered his life and committed himself to his wife and to his family and his children and to the Lord. He had that great home run derby in midseason for Major League Baseball a couple years ago. But then, just recently, he had a tragic relapse. They had people taking pictures of him in an Arizona bar and intoxicated, shirt off, women licking whipped cream off his bare chest. You think, wow, how’d that transformation take place where he went from a guy talking about how much he loved Jesus, loved his wife, and loved his kids, to kind of a slice of drunken debauchery?
But of course, there’s a lot of misbehavin’ in this world. Certainly we all need the grace of God. There’s no doubt about that. But there are many examples of just tragic behavior. And you know, Mark Sanford, governor of South Carolina, at least allegedly, has had many adulteries. what a tragedy.
But these kinds of things are constantly in the paper. Our kids see them, our kids hear about them, and here we are. We’re supposed to nurture our children in the Bible with Judeo-Christian values and a whole different worldview. This is your responsibility as moms and dads, to rear your kids in the Bible. And of course, you are so critical. In 2 Timothy chapter three, verses 16 and 17, we’re told, “All scripture is inspired of God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man or woman of God might be complete and equipped for every good work.” So all of the Bible is inspired of God. “Theopneustos”—theo, meaning God, pneustos, from pnuema, which means spirit, or breath, or wind. So it’s God spirited, God inspirited, God inspired, God breathed.
So God breathed on man in the beginning and imparted the imago Dei. Mankind is fallen, even though God’s breathed on us. We are His inspiration. We are the crown of His creation. We are fallen. We come to the foot of the cross. We accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and we’re given a new nature. But we still have the old nature, and there’s this war within us. So we go to the Bible and He breathes on us daily the breath of God. This book has the breath of God on it. It is theopneustos, God breathed. So we take it to our children, we read it to our children, we study it with our children.
You can’t just outsource your kids to the church. You can’t just outsource your kids to Christian schools and institutions, wonderful though they are. You have to take this responsibility as mom and dad to rear your children in the nurture of scripture. Help your kids hide the Bible in their heart.
Psalms 119, verse 11, says, “Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.” I mean, that’s divine DNA. You hide the nature of God in your heart when you hide His word in your heart, and it helps you overcome sin in a world of unrighteousness. It helps you become strong, and it helps you be faithful. So you want to hide His word in your heart, and you want your kids to hide His word in their heart. I thank God for the Bible Blast ministry we have here at the church, where hundreds and hundreds of our kids memorize scripture. But do you know what they do best when their parents memorize scripture with them? Come to John chapter 15, and Jesus tells us, “If My word abides in you, you’ll bear much fruit.”
Do you want to bear fruit? Do you want your kids to bear fruit? Do you want your children’s children to bear fruit? Hide His word in your heart. I would challenge you to do this: find a chapter in the Bible you love most. It might be the love chapter, 1Corinthians 15. That’s kind of short, so that might be a good place to begin. It might be Romans eight or John chapter three. There are so many glorious chapters. Find the chapter you love most and memorize it. Give yourself a month. If you need it, give yourself a year, but memorize it. This is an intelligent audience. You can all do this. Then ask your kids to join you in hiding this treasure in their heart, and memorize it with your kids. Take that favorite chapter and sit down with your kids and memorize it together.
When you’ve completed your favorite chapter, move to your next favorite chapter. Let this be a journey in DNA, in letting God’s DNA reside in us, His nature and His character, through His Word.
Well, there’s a third thing we must do if we’re going to pass on God’s DNA. We must evangelize our kids. We must nurture them in the Bible, but then also we must discipline them. We must discipline our kids if they’re going to have divine DNA. We must take the things that are not godlike, things that are contrary to the nature and character of God, things that are contrary to the DNA of God, and we need to exercise discipline. We need accountability groups in our own lives for the sake of discipline. I think sometimes parents want to hand kids off to churches and schools. I want you to hear a little audio recording of an answering machine from a school to parents who might phone in.
“Hello, you have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection. To lie about why your child is absent, press one. To make excuses for why your child did not do his homework, press two. To complain about what we do, press three. To swear at staff members, press four. To ask why you didn’t get information that has already been enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers that have been mailed to you, press five. If you want us to raise your child, press six. If you want to reach out and touch, slap, or hit someone, press seven. To request another teacher for the third time this year, press eight. To complain about bus transportation, press nine. To complain about school lunches, press zero. If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his or her own behavior, classwork, and homework, and that it’s not the teacher’s fault for your child’s lack of effort, hang up and have a nice day. If you want this in another language, move to a country that speaks it. Thank you for your interest in public education.”
Barb and I downloaded that from the web and we thought it was kind of amusing but also insightful. “If you’d like us to raise your kids for you, press six.” I think that’s what a lot of parents would like. They would like public schools to do that. They would like private schools to do that, and they would like churches and Sunday schools to do that. Please raise our kids for us. Sometimes moms and dads are upset because they feel like, “The school’s not raising my kid very well. The church is not raising my kid very well; it’s not doing a very good job.” And I understand that frustration. And of course, here at the church we have three wonderful schools—a preschool and elementary school, a middle school right across the street, and Valor High School. I’m privileged to be on the board there. These are wonderful schools and we’re supposed to assist you. But you have the primary responsibility of raising your kids. It’s yours. This is the will of God. This is the plan of God. And as parents we simply have to take responsibility.
It’s not easy to discipline kids. I think this might be the most difficult thing. How do we discipline? How do we know when to do it? How do we know how to do it? And of course, discipline becomes more complex as kids become older. Recently, Barb and I saw a movie called Dan in Real Life. Dan is, in the movie, a widowed father with three daughters living at home. He writes a column for parents on how to raise your kids. That’s what he does for a job. But this is Dan in Real Life, and the movie shows how Dan is actually really struggling to raise his girls, and he is actually really struggling to connect with them and gets into fights with them about boys and all sorts of things. It turns out that raising kids is a lot harder than writing a column about raising your kids.
It’s not an easy job. It’s not easy when our kids are teenagers. It’s not easy when they’re in the terrible twos, or somewhere around 10. It doesn’t matter what the age is. It’s really hard to have the discipline and to know what to do and how to do it. We all need a lot of grace. At the end of the day, we want to give God the glory, and every day we want to pray for grace, grace, grace on the lives of our kids and on our own lives as we seek to rear our children in the nurture and discipline of the Lord. It’s not easy, but I want you to remember this: God does not punish His children.
Keep this in mind. When you exercise discipline, it is true. The Word in the Bible for punishment is the Greek word “kolasis.” And with rare exception, this word is distinguished from the Greek word “paideia.” Kolasis means punishment. God does not punish his children. When you become a child of God and you accept Him and you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior and you become sons and daughters of God, you are not destined for wrath. You’ve already passed out of death into life and He does not punish you. Now, He will punish the fallen angels, and He will punish the reprobate. But He does not punish His children. He disciplines them. And this is that different word. This is the word paideia. Understand that paideia is motivated by love. The motive is love. The attitude is love. The attitude in punishment is righteous indignation, but the attitude in discipline is love. The purpose in discipline is the transformation. It’s redemptive and remedial. It’s meant to transform and shape. The purpose of discipline is to produce Christlikeness, though the purpose of punishment is justice—to get even, to make them pay. At least in certain contexts, that’s the purpose of punishment. But not discipline.
Discipline is motivated by love. And it’s for the purpose, a redemptive and remedial purpose, of shaping the person and making them better and transforming them and improving them and helping them to become like Christ. And so, as parents, try to keep the attitude right when you’re exercising discipline. It’s a challenge because we’re fallen and there’s going to be some righteous indignation in there. I understand that. Occasionally there might be a little bit of a desire to get even. But try to keep that attitude of paideia in there. Whatever form of discipline you’re using, let it be rooted in love, with the attitude of love and for the purpose of shaping and molding. Try to keep that in your heart and try to keep that in your mind, because this is a biblical concept with regard to discipline and a very tough culture in which to raise kids.
Well, finally, if we’re going to pass on God’s DNA, we must call our kids to ministry. I’ve really thought about this this week. This seems really important to me, before God, that I tell you this. It’s not enough to evangelize your kids, nurture them in the Bible, and discipline them when they do wrong. That’s all very important. But it’s not enough. You must call your kids to ministry. Look at Jesus and what He did with His kids, what He did with His disciples. He called them into ministry. So you look at Mark 10, mark 6, you Matthew 10, and Luke 9. In all three of those synoptic passages, you see Jesus sending the 12 out two by two into ministry. He sent them out into ministry.
Then you look at Luke chapter 10, and you see Jesus taking the broader group of disciples, the 70, and what do you see Him doing? You see Him sending them out into ministry two by two. And it’s a fascinating thing to read Luke 10, as I did this week. It was kind of an eyeopener for me to see what happened to the 70 when they came back from doing ministry. It says they were filled with joy. Clearly somehow God’s DNA was commuted to them as they did ministry, and they were filled with joy. We’re told in that passage in Luke 10 that in the aftermath of doing the ministry the Father and the Son were revealed to them. And Jesus said to them, “Blessed are your eyes. Many have longed to see what you have seen and have not seen it. Blessed are your ears. Many have longed to hear what you’ve heard and have not heard it.
But He said to these things as they came back filled with joy. He said that the Father and the Son had been revealed to them and that they had received a kind of enlightenment. I believe this is true. It’s only as we enter into ministry that God’s DNA can reach its fullness in. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it, because God is love. Unless you’re out there trying to love people somehow, how are you going to have His DNA? So you must evangelize, you must nurture in the Word, and you must discipline when your children do wrong. But you’ve got to call them into ministry. And I think that begins with an example. I think the examples begin at home. I think children need to see mom and dad ministering to each other. Hopefully in your home your kids see that. They see their mom and dad kind of ministering to each other.
Barb and I just had our anniversary on Friday. It was our 38th anniversary. I knew what to get Barb, because just two years ago when the church had its 25th anniversary the church gave Barb a charm bracelet. It didn’t have any charms on it, but it was a bracelet for charms. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, because you keep buying those charms for the bracelet. So Barb loves it and it really is cool. I know that on her birthday, on Mother’s Day, and on our anniversary one of the things she would love for me to do is get her a charm or two. There are some wonderful charms, and some of them have wonderful Christian symbolism and even scripture verses. It’s a joy for Barb to have that charm bracelet.
Barb said to me, well, Jim, what do you want for our anniversary? I didn’t know, but Friday it kind of came to me. I said, Barb, I’d like to go to the Rockies game. I mean, the Rockies are on a roll. It’s kind of hard for me because Clint Hurdle’s been part of our church, and I really love Clint, and he loves the Lord. It was hard to see him released. But the Rockies are on a roll, and it would be fun. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve gone to a game and I thought this would really be fun. So Barb went online and she bought tickets for today. After this service, if I don’t hang around we’re heading to the game and that’s really going to be fun.
Then tonight we’re going out and getting Mexican food. I know our kids through the years of living at home with us and just watching us see us seeking to please and honor each other. I know Barb has always done that for me. I’m so blessed. But I’m so grateful because I know our kids see that. I think it encourages them to minister to their spouse or to their friends. I think it really does begin at home like that. But then you have to take it out of the home. You have to take it out of the home, and you’ve got to learn to minister outside the home and teach your kids to minister outside the home. You know how Jesus washed the disciple’s feet? And He said, “do you realize what I’ve done for you? You call Me Master and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.” (By the way, that is an amazing, powerful statement theologically, but that’s for another time). “You call me Master and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I, then, your Master and Lord, have washed your feet, how much more ought you to wash one another’s feet? Behold, I’ve given you an example that you should follow in My steps.”
So we teach by example. You know, a lot of truth is caught, not just taught. So you teach by example, and Jesus did that. You take the call to ministry outside of the home, and we can help you with that as a church. Part of what we’re about is just to help moms and dads be good moms and dads. So we have a Discover the World Program where you can take your kids. We’ve had over 3,000 of you go on short-term mission trips. Not all of the trips are designed for families and for kids, but many of them are. Many of these trips are, and so many of you have brought your kids of varying ages and you’ve gone and you’ve built a home for a poor family together with a bunch of other families. Or you’ve gone to some other part of the world. Somehow the DNA of God, that divine DNA, comes down in the midst of ministry as you accept that call to enter into ministry—as you model that as parents and as your kids see it—somehow that the DNA of God just comes down as you’re doing that together.
How powerful that is. We want to encourage you to find a short-term mission trip through our church here where you can take your kids or your grandkids. We make sure that you’re prepared and you’re safe, but these are designed just to impart the DNA of God and to bless others while doing this. So what a cool thing.
As we close, I just want to say I really feel like the call to ministry is as close as next door. You want to teach your kids to have a heart for the needs of people, even in your neighborhood. You know, I was thinking this week of our daughter, Heather, when she was growing up and we were living in Arapahoe Ridge, which was just north of Arapahoe Road and a little bit east of University. When Heather was young, she and Drew would go across the street. There was a park there, and Heather and Drew would go and play over there in the park. The elderly lady that lived in the house just in front of the park didn’t like it when the kids went there to play. She didn’t like the noise. She didn’t like the motion. She didn’t like the excitement. She just didn’t like kids there. She’d come out and yell at them every time. Heather and Drew would go over there and play and she’d come out in the backyard and she’d yell at them. She’d kind of tell them off, and it kind of scared them. Sometimes they’d come home and they’d kind of be upset and have tears in their eyes. Heather would say, that mean woman. I said to Heather, you know, we kind of need to get to know her because I bet something’s going on. I bet she’s really hurting. I bet in her heart, in her life, there’s been some real damage, some real pain. She probably doesn’t really mean to be mean. She doesn’t really want to be mean. She’s just hurting. Well, I could look at Heather’s face and I could see she was processing that. I could see the wheels turning. Her eyes got kind of big, and there was some kind of an “Aha” moment for her. And later that day, I saw Heather went into the kitchen and started cooking cookies. I said, what are you doing? She said, well, I’m going to take them across to the lady across the street and give them to her. I said, oh, I think that’s really cool. And then Drew said he wanted to go with Heather, and they went together. Barb and I looked through the window and they went across the street and knocked on her door. Heather gave the cookies to this elderly lady and said, Jesus loves you. And the lady started to cry. Then she kept repeating, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It was kind of a new beginning for them. I was thinking this week, I’m not surprised Heather did that and does those kinds of things because Barb has modeled that so well.