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This is the picture.

It's the picture I want to set the stage with today in Psalm 78.

And really, at the top of your notes, there's still a few things that I want us to cover.

The tough thing is we missed a week last week and sort of getting caught up, but there's

some foundational realities that I want to put on the table that really cover the whole of

scripture that will help us, I think, understand some of the specific texts that we're

going to look at, Psalm 78 and others in the days to come. And so what I want to do is I want us to

think about, before we even dive into Psalm 78, we're going to think for a little bit about this,

about the relationship between the word and the family and the church.

Because then there's a lot of confusion when it comes to how those three components work together.

You've got some situations where across the church we just kind of disregard the word.

We put the word to the side and we do whatever it takes to draw most people, and we don't trust the word to do that work.

Well, obviously, we know that's not our business, but we're going to cling to the word.

And the word be foundation.

That's why we're walking through what we're going to walk through over the next nine or so weeks.

But then when it comes to the family and the church, there's a lot of

confusion here. We've got kind of opposite poles that we have wandered between when it comes to

our church culture. When it comes to, you've seen this, if you're new to the church, you may not

have seen this as much, but you've seen this, not just here for kills, but in a variety of different contexts. You've got a variety of pictures in the church that have

so exalted the church to the exclusion of the family, or ignoring the family. Basically, okay,

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