the cardinal unit of society as God has ordained it is the family.

The parent is responsible to inculcate into the children a clear understanding of the character of God.

We live in this culture that seeks to have institutions meet our personal

responsibilities and when I see the scriptural view of culture and the world, the cardinal unit of society, as God

has ordained it, is the family.

And when we look at the Shema in Deuteronomy, the call, the scary call, hear, O Israel,

the Lord our God is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all of your might and all of your strength and all of your soul and so on,

which Jesus identifies as the great commandment.

I mean when our Lord says there are commandments and then there's the great

commandment we need to give great attention and great weight to it and if you look

at that passage in Deuteronomy 6 most of us read the Schma and stop right after the Declaration of the Great

Commandment.

And if we read on, then you have the program, and you shall teach this to your children.

You shall speak about this when you rise up, when you go to sleep.

You know, you write it on your forehead, you put it on your hands and over the door post, and the whole thrust of that passage is that the parent

is responsible as a daily matter of priority to inculcate into the children a clear understanding of the character of God.

When I hear Christians, profess Christians say, well I'm not going to teach my children anything,

I want them to decide for themselves and they abdicate their responsibility as Christians

Now that terrifies me

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