it has the power to completely transform the kind of family that you're raising.

And that family is going to be a tremendous blessing to the world.

Our families are blessed, as it says in Abraham, be blessed to be a blessing.

So if you want to craft the kind of family that is maximally blessing to all of society

and to the kingdom of God, this is where it starts.

You have to learn how to craft a table culture that goes multi-generational.

Welcome back to the family teams podcast.

We have been talking about the multi-generational family meal.

We talked about how to make it fun, how to make it sustainable.

And today we're going to be talking about how to make it more meaningful. A lot of families tend to get into a place

where they're kind of just going through the motions. And so very few, I think, can build meaning

over long periods of time. So Jeremy, maybe what's the big change that separates a rote kind of

dinner, repetitive dinner process

from a tradition that really forms people spiritually over years? Yeah, you can imagine that in

our culture, we talk a lot about these weekday meals where we're just kind of catching up

and everybody in, poof, you know, runs back to their regular life, their screens, or their own individual

activities. We're talking about a meal that feels timeless, where no one has anywhere better to go.

And the main thing that we're trying to experience in this meal is peak family life, where a father

feels like a father, a mother feels like a mother, a son like a son, a daughter

like a daughter. We need to experience our family-ness. And oftentimes we just don't take the time

to have that kind of experience. And you can actually choreograph like a liturgy that leads into

your meal that causes people to sort of settle into those identities.

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