{"id":34,"date":"2012-06-01T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/crisis-in-the-christian-family"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:33:33","slug":"crisis-in-the-christian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/crisis-in-the-christian-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Family Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e2016766fe0184970b alignleft\" style=\"width: 280px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Family Feud - Logo-01\" alt=\"Family Feud - Logo-01\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6a00d83524c19a69e2016766fe0184970b-300wi.jpg\" \/>&#8220;Eli\u2019s sons were wicked men; they had no regard<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">\u00a0<\/span>for the\u00a0Lord&#8221; (1 Samuel 2:12 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>Eli was the High Priest of Israel. He was also a judge in the days before they had a king. Born into the line of Aaron, by all accounts he was a good priest and judge. Yet, as a father, he was a complete failure.\u00a0His two sons were raised up to serve in the Tabernacle. They were PKs &#8211; &#8220;Preacher&#8217;s Kids,&#8221; but they had &#8220;no regard for the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can a parent have such strong faith and be good at their work, yet still be terrible at raising kids?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure parents ask themselves this same question today. They ask, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I keep a roof over your heads and food in your stomachs? Did you ever lack for clothes or shoes? Didn&#8217;t I make sure you got a good education? And didn&#8217;t I take you to church every Sunday?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that a parent can do everything right and their children can still go wrong. Even God the Father has seen His share of rebellious kids.<\/p>\n<p>But there are certain warning signs that our parenting is falling short. These are the signs of a family in crisis that Eli overlooked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worldy preoccupation<\/li>\n<li>Passive avoidance<\/li>\n<li>Personal resignation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Success at work does not equal success at home. Come to WCC this Sunday as we launch our new sermon series entitled: &#8220;Family Feud&#8221; and learn how to respond to these warning signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eli\u2019s sons were wicked men; they had no regard\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord&#8221; (1 Samuel 2:12 NIV). Eli was the High Priest of Israel. He was also a judge in the days before they had a king. Born into the line of Aaron, by all accounts he was a good priest and judge. Yet, as a father, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061,1,2062],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-weblogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}