The Covenant Home: God’s Ideal Institution for the Nurture of Children (4): The Order of the Covenant Home
Den Hartog argues that the covenant family, established on God's created order with the husband as head and both parents responsible for child nurture, is God's ideal institution for raising children. The article emphasizes that parents cannot delegate their God-given mandate to secular institutions and must maintain their homes according to biblical principles to ensure the blessing and peace of family life. This practical theological piece addresses the contemporary crisis of family dissolution by calling Christians back to foundational biblical truths about marriage, parental authority, and the sanctity of the home.
Any institution that is going to attempt to raise children needs to have a firmly established order. The reason the family is the ideal institution is that the institution of the covenant family is built on God's order. The world increasingly has abandoned and rejected the order of God. The result has been that the institution of the family in America is falling apart. Furthermore, the prevalence of ungodly divorce and remarriage in our society has destroyed many homes. It is impossible for the...
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