Resource of the Month :: High Cost of High Control :: June 12

“We aren’t supposed to control our spouses. We aren’t supposed to control our children. The Bible says we’re to keep them under control; there’s a big difference between controlling children and keeping them under control. The foundational principle that leaped at me from the Scriptures is that control, as we’ve defined it here, is destructive and evil. It fuels rage within others. It handicaps and even paralyzes their abilities and potentials. And it is counter to the way God meant us to be.”