Joel offers the Israelites a choice: continue what you're doing and things will get worse, or change what you're doing and things will be great. Sounds like an easy decision, right? Psychologists call this the “carrot and stick” approach to modifying behavior, and as we hear in this message it is very effective in getting kids in the Chicago school system to change their ways too.

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