Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:57:14 +0000 BURNING a child’s palms as punishment for eating sweet potatoes at a neighbour’s house is inhuman and cannot be a way to discipline a child because discipline comes out of love while torture is a sign of hate and bitterness, Divine Assignment Ministries pastor Martin Mwale has said. Pastor Mwale said that even God disciplines those that he loves and he punishes each one he accepts as his child and the purpose of discipline is to correct the wrong. Pastor Mwale was reacting to recent media reports of a child whose palms were burnt by the mother as punishment for eating sweet potatoes at a neighbour’s house. “As much as the Bible says ‘spare not the rod for an erring child’, the rod is not the only method of discipline because one of the most effective ways of disciplining a child is to find what they like the […]
