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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 324 | Does the Church Replace Family?

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss if the Church replaces family.

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family, you're brought into that context when marriage is not till later. So it's kind of like you can

0:04.1

still have this idealistic, romantic future vision if you have not been married yet of like,

0:08.9

oh, I want that. I desire that.

0:15.1

So, guys, Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood, Peter in our Five Minute

0:19.2

Facebook group, go request

0:21.0

into there. It's usually in the links of the descriptions if you want to get in. It's free.

0:24.3

It's fun. We have a blast in there doing fun questions. Now, Peter asked a really good question.

0:28.4

He said, have you received pushback from others regarding the thoughts discussed in the family revision

0:33.7

book that Jeremy's written or just the family team's concept in general. He said,

0:38.1

we mentioned the book and the idea to a trusted friend and they indicated they couldn't finish

0:42.1

the book because there were too many things they considered not valid. We haven't met up with them yet

0:46.4

to discuss their viewpoints, but I'm curious if any of you have brought up the idea of multigenerational

0:50.9

living and have been challenged on the topic, what criticism have you

0:54.3

heard and how have you responded? Then there was a whole comment thread where we kind of

0:57.9

synthesized, ask more questions, and et cetera. And essentially what the biggest pushback was from

1:02.5

their friend and the one we get the most, it tends to be from the Christian community of saying,

1:08.5

like, oh, that's kind of idolizing the family too much.

1:11.6

Kind of Christian community has replaced that, right?

1:14.2

Like stop putting so much emphasis on your family.

1:16.8

It says in the New Testament that like the church is the new family.

1:19.8

Now, at the idolatry part, we totally agree.

1:22.0

The family should not be an idol.

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