Your Family Needs You // How to Stop Your Family from Falling Apart, Part 2

<p class="p1">Around the world, families are being torn apart. And it’s not just a global, social problem. It’s a deeply painful, personal problem. God has rather a lot to say about your family. To Him – family matters. After all, the whole family thing was His idea in the first place.</p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">Your Family Matters</span></h4> <p class="p1">As I travel around the world and see what’s going on in different societies and cultures – here’s one of the things that I see. It’s happening all over the place. This thing that we call family – is under attack. It’s a war zone out there and this war is relentlessly pounding away at the family unit, intent it seems, on tearing it apart.</p> <p class="p1">I’m a former army officer – and I remember once during my training they took us to a large firing range – it was open, you could see for miles, there were no trees. We were sitting on one hilltop and on a hill a few miles away, they’d dug a defensive installation. There were pits, bunkers with overhead protection, like the one's infantry soldiers would dig if they were defending that hill against the enemy.</p> <p class="p1">Then they began to bombard that hill – first with light artillery, then with medium artillery and then with heavy artillery. It was the most unbelievable firepower demonstration I had ever seen. All of us who were watching it were thinking to ourselves – man, I’m glad I’m not in one of those bunkers on that hill – and since we were training to be army officers, training to lead men into war – we knew that one day, we could well find ourselves in that place.</p> <p class="p1">But the artillery was nothing, compared to the bombs the planes dropped on that hill. Yep – a squadron of bombers clew over and dropped their loads on that target hill – it was just unbelievable. The massive firepower that was unleashed on that defensive position.</p> <p class="p1">That’s what I see happening to families around the world. Modern life is bombarding our families in all sorts of ways. And the