‘Christian Family Values’ tend to be advocated strongly by those who are most voacl about sticking to what the Bible says. The irony though is that the Bible actually has very little to say about the significance of the nuclear family, and in terms of the childhood family of Jesus, one snippet from Luke chapter 2 is all that we get. Further, this passage hardly gives us a model we would want our families to emulate!
Made me think that my parenting was OK. My boys got left at school once for few hours when I thouht my husband had picked up them up. Really he'd forgotten them! We could have raised Jesus! It's pleasing to know that imperfection and mistakes can create opportunties for learning. Jesus seemed to be a radical and probably kept his parents on their toes!
Thanks for the sermon Dave. It was great.
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