Lonnell Williams

God can reach farther than your family tree, but he still cares enough about what's growing in your house.

And this is the critique buried right here in the text.

Because so many of us have not realized that our salvation has implications on the next generation.

Our children do not inherit what we provide.

They inherit what we normalize.

What you tolerate in private in your home can become what your children call normal.

They inherit our prayers, but they also inherit our patterns.

You cannot pray for your children to love a God that they never see you be with.

They inherit your church attendance, but they also inherit your private appetites.

Children learn their faith from your mouth, but they learn their values from your habits.

I wonder if there's anybody in this room that says, not my house, not my babies.

The devil is a liar.

I'll do whatever it takes.

The generational curse will stop with me.

Nobody else with my last name is going to go through the hell that I went through.

Disease stops with addiction, stops with me.

Lies stop with me.

Welfare checks stop with me.

Sex and AIDS stops with, is there anybody in here?

We won't pick another weed, another bottle.