The Place of the Aged Generations in the Covenant Family
Den Hartog explores the role of elderly generations within the covenant family structure, emphasizing how grandparents and great-grandparents fulfill a significant spiritual calling in transmitting God's covenant truth across generations. The article presents the Christian home as God's ideal institution for covenant education, where aged saints model faithful living and receive honor for having raised their children in the fear of the Lord.
In this article I want to consider one more reason why the Christian home is the ideal institution that God created for the raising of covenant children. Remember that I speak of that which is ideal. No home achieves that ideal. The best home in this world of sin is still imperfect. But the ideal is what God Himself has created the covenant home to be. We must strive after this ideal, conscious of the fact that we do this only through the exercise of our faith and earnest prayer. The...
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