A Strong Foundation for the Christian Family

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first; the man is the head of the family, the woman is what the Word says she is, and the children are what the Word says they are. Then the children are to obey their parents. Children can only truly obey their parents if their parents are followers of Christ and walking according to the Word of God. As Christian parents, you don’t just have a baby and then let that child grow up wild. You’re responsible for that child, to see that he grows up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Children have to be taught to obey. They don’t like it any more than you did when you were a child, but in obedience lies the greatest freedom. If you let a little child grow up ruling the roost, running the whole show, by the time he’s a teenager he’s going to be miserable, and he’s going to make everyone he comes into contact with miserable, including the woman he marries. Christian families should bein