While retirement homes and assisted living are big issues facing families across the country,

and today's question comes to us anonymously as do many of our questions.

Dear Pastor John, what does the Bible say about retirement homes?

Don't we as children have a responsibility to directly look after and provide for our

parents in old age?

How do retirement homes fit or not fit into this calling as children of aging parents?

Even though the issue of how we care for our aging parents is not addressed specifically

in the Bible, I think that is the details of how to do it or not addressed, there are

enough pointers in God's word that I think any Christian child with aging parents who

is deeply, any child who is deeply formed by the Scriptures and eager to magnify Christ

by his behavior.

And those are two huge assumptions because there aren't many people like that in the world.

The lean very strongly toward a close and caring relationship with his parents or her parents

close direct like this anonymous person was asking.

Let me mention some texts that deal with a couple of, and then deal with a couple of

practical issues.

Philippians 2, 3 through 8 is one of the most transforming passages in the Bible if it

takes root in our lives.

It stresses becoming a kind of person who is oriented on what others need, not just on

our private desires.

This is the great issue of life.

Will we be selfish or will we be servants?

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