How Churches Can Bring Back the Multigenerational Family
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This episode explores the reasons why the Protestant church is directly contributing to the destruction of the multi-generational household.
I'll dive into 3 specific issues that I see, and then give steps I think we can take as a church to solve them, so that we stop teaching an unbiblical view of family, which has far reaching consequences.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:07 The church is teaching the wrong idea of family
3:01 3 Ways the church promotes unbiblical family
3:40 Problem 1
8:17 Problem 2
10:20 Problem 3
16:03 How to recover the multigenerational family
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| 0:00.0 | Why didn't the Protestant church resist the destruction of the multi-generational household? |
| 0:05.4 | And what can we do about it? |
| 0:09.9 | So what we want to talk about today is how churches can bring back the multi-generational family. |
| 0:14.4 | Some of the really subtle elements that have contributed to the breakdown of the biblical family. |
| 0:19.6 | So my name is Jeremy Pryor. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm with Family Teams. We're here to restore the biblical blueprint of family. So my name is Jeremy Pryor and with Family Teams. |
| 0:21.6 | We're here to restore the biblical blueprint of family as a multi-generational team on mission. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm looking at some of the foundational elements that have really hurt the whole idea of the multi-generational family. |
| 0:32.6 | We looked at some of the really kind of ancient elements in our last podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to talk about the Protestant church in particular and some of the things kind of ancient elements in our last podcast. I want to talk about |
| 0:38.0 | the Protestant church in particular and some of the things that have happened within the |
| 0:42.1 | history of Protestantism that not only in the past, but today is directly contributing to |
| 0:48.2 | the destruction of the multi-generational household. And I think that there are things, |
| 0:51.1 | these are things that can be addressed, can be, can be impacted at the |
| 0:54.6 | individual church level. And so I really want to dive into this because I think a lot of pastors |
| 0:58.3 | are just unfamiliar with the subtle things that are really causing a lot of the ways that we're |
| 1:03.8 | just contributing to the way that the family just continues to break down. So does today's Bible-centered |
| 1:09.9 | churches teach about the biblical |
| 1:11.5 | family. There does seem to be within family ministries, within churches, a theme. And that is |
| 1:17.9 | that we tend to teach the same kind of theology of family as the sort of conservative, |
| 1:26.0 | modern, Western world teaches. |
| 1:28.9 | It's basically a nuclear family. |
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