Tragic Story

Dr. Anthony Bradley reports on this horrible story of a young man who was abused by his parents and then murdered his mother. In light of the account, he makes the following suggestion that I found rather compelling (but not sure how I feel about yet):

Since pain is the meta-narrative for high school students today, I'm becoming more convinced that a church should not higher a youth pastor that does not have at least a counseling degree and has the authority with the other pastoral staff to rebuke bad parents.

I'm sure much could be said to qualify his statement here, but as least we get the point of what he is saying. Kids today are more troubled than ever and they need some sort of means by which to deal with it. May the church be the church that lays down it's lives for the broken and rejected. My suburban brain has a hard time coming to terms with this challenge at times. Praying for grace...