Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in

Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realthafed.com where you'll find study guides to go along with

each sermon series as he preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily

devotions, free e-books, and more.

Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Just a minute, I'm going to preach, I'll just tell you this one's going to hurt.

This one's going to hurt like crazy.

All right, here's the question.

The question is, do you need to sever ties with toxic family members?

And if you're a first time guest and a relative brought you, now you know why?

Okay, and if you're like, I don't have any toxic family members, it's you.

On this giving moment to process, just to process that emotion.

All right, so we find ourselves in this incredible book of the Bible, Genesis, and it's this

multi-generational case study in marriage and family.

And what tends to happen is we tend to put up with things from our relatives that we

would never put up with anyone else.

And we tend to endure a lot longer and a lot more.

But eventually there comes a point oftentimes in a relationship with friends, but oftentimes

with family where we're asking the question, is this the time to walk away?

Are we done now?

Is this is this where we go our separate ways?

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