God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
If we have followed through…in showing unconditional love, then a child will be more ready and able to accept discipline when it has to be given, for he will understand the spirit in which it is given.
Pity the home and church where fathers, finding in their hearts no love for their sons, cast them off without benefit of discipline. And pity the sons who grow up yearning for this proof of their sonship (Wayne Grudem and Dennis Rainey).
