The Difference Between Honoring and Obeying

Send us Fan Mail The Difference Between Honoring and Obeying “Son, always do what’s right. Even if I tell you to do something wrong, do what’s right.” - my dad, The Rev. Horace G. McMillon, jr. My father’s instruction to me gave me a very different insight on a verse that is sometimes used for mischief: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’” (from Ephesians 6) We are not called to blind obedience. Our fathers and mothers ...