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Biblical Family

 

The family, as God designed it, is a formation center for human relationships; a domestic church for spiritual nurture, exercising covenant faith, rearing children in admonition of the Lord, and glorifying God.  The biblical family is the seedbed for Godly norms, ethics, values and law.  Children who have a warm, affectionate family relationship will adopt their parent’s views and values.  The biblical family home is a refuge, a secure sanctuary, not a war zone.  A home without sound housekeeping (sanitation, rules, chores, roles, planning, budgeting and organization) will not be a haven, a storm shelter, a nice place to go.  The family home is a place for discipline, love, instruction, trust, laughter, help, sympathy, patience, forbearance, loyalty, privacy, understanding and tenderness.  The family is the smallest collective building block of society.  Scriptural societies are made up of biblical families, which in turn depend on biblical marriages.  And only Christ makes families and marriages truly function correctly. The only institution standing in the way of a technocratic tidal wave of alternate procreative techniques, variant marriage forms, free-sex ideologies, experimental “family” models and equal rights dogma is the biblical family unit - a happy affirmed tending mother, beside whom is a loving supportive husband, and behind them, thankful respectful children; all under the armour of God.

 

Ge 1:27-28, 18:19; Jos 24:15; Jer 29:4-6; Mt 12:25; Mk 10:28-31; Tit 2:3-5.