Encouraging Family Reformation

The biblical institutions of church and family in America are in need of reformation. Some say that we are in the period of greatest apostasy in 500 years. Less than one-half of one percent of adults ages 18 to 23 years have a biblical worldview. Only one-third of Christian parents say their religious faith is one of the most important influences on their parenting and only 27% of Protestant parents are very familiar with what the Bible has to say about parenting. It is clear that many Christian parents are no longer discipling their children in the faith. The result---SBC’s Council on Family Life reported that roughly 88 percent of evangelical children are leaving the church shortly after they graduate from high school. The problem is not only with the church and its program-oriented, marketing-driven growth philosophy, but also with parents, who have abdicated their role and responsibility in teaching, discipling, and nurturing their children in multigenerational faithfulness. The result is that the secular post-Christian culture has claimed the children and youth of America. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). We are encouraged by the fact that God is sovereign, Jesus Christ is Lord and His kingdom is forever. As we believe God's covenantal promise, our opportunity is great in working toward reformation of the family, the church, and the nations.

This blog links to a wide variety of writings on biblical issues regarding the family, biblical roles and relationships in the family, the church, education, and biblical worldview including ethics, apologetics, history, politics, and culture. The blog was created to encourage biblical family reformation through development of a clear family vision of multigenerational faithfulness. Our duties as parents include sharing the gospel with our children, discipling them in the faith (Deut 6:7), raising them in the fear, nuture, and admonition of the Lord (Prov 9:10; Eph 6:4), cultivating in them a biblical worldview (2 Cor 10:5), and providing them with the necessary tools to recognize and engage an increasingly humanistic, post-Christian culture while glorifying God.

September 28, 2009

Pursuing Your Calling

The Bible everywhere assumes that man was created to work. This does not mean, of course, that our lives consists solely of work, but meaningful work, in imitation of our Creator, provides one key purpose and the overall structure of our lives. In important ways, work is even more fundamental than family – not that work is more important than family or that we may neglect our families for the sake of our work – for our work or calling is an essential outworking of the image of God in man, in a way that even the family is not. This may be illustrated by the simple observance that while every man is called to work, not every man is called to have a family, as our Savior taught. Moreover, in the consummated state, when family relations will be significantly altered (Matt. 22:30), the gifts and callings God gives each one of us will continue to operate, albeit on an indescribably higher and more fulfilling level, so that we shall serve God in the new heavens and earth with our individual gifts and in our unique callings, spiritual and material (Rom. 11:29). Work, then, is not part of the curse, is not something from which we should seek escape, and must not be viewed as an impediment to pursuing the more important and fulfilling aspects of our lives. Rightly pursued, work brings happiness and satisfaction to us in ways that few other things can.

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