The Schamel Family

This is an E-mail to a brand new Christian Brother in our Church who ask my daughter to sing a special song with him, with out asking me first. It's something that I thought you would enjoy, regarding how we message believers have our children under our authority and protection, just as we should be under God's authority and protection and how God uses the situations that come up to train our children. This was my response.

Brother,

I love you so much and appreciate your spirit and desire to learn. As you are learning, we believe in the Biblical authority of a Fathers protection over his children and especially his daughters. The Bible instructs the daughters to be obedient, shamefaced, humble and contrite, and as such, our children are taught to involve their parents in all aspects of their life and authority. This way they do not have to even put themselves in a position to make the wrong choice and even more importantly, God gives us these opportunities, as parents to use all situation's such as this to teach our children to evaluate the motives and circumstances surrounding the other people involved. For example, if some single Man bragging to her about her talent, enticing her with words and wanting her to spend time "practicing" singing, she may not realize what the real motive is. Again, all of these situations allow us to teach them to think accurately and Biblically. I certainly wish I would have learned that as a child.

She, mentioned to me that you would like to sing a special with her and under the circumstances, I certainly do not see any harm. We do not want our daughters to "thrive" on being on stage for their own glory, but only to glorify God with the wonderful gift that God has blessed them with. In the future please feel free to discuss with me any issues good or bad regarding my children. I will look forward to hearing you both.

God Bless,

Dale Schamel

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