Last time on Focus on the Family with Jim Daley, Dr. Gary Chapman explained how healthy families can

positively impact our culture.

We're trying to help our children understand this is what life is all about.

We serve each other, and then we go out in the community and we serve people.

Imagine what would happen in this country if this attitude permeated every family in the country.

Welcome to today's show. I'm John Fuller.

This is a very dynamic presentation by Dr. Chapman, detailing five characteristics of a healthy family that he gleaned from the New Testament, Ephesians 518 through 6'4.

Now, last time Dr. Chapman talked about building an

attitude of service in your family, as we just heard in the opening clip, and he stressed

the importance of emotional intimacy between husband and wife. Today, he'll describe the

keys to healthy child discipline, and we all went okay, and he'll encourage fathers

to be loving leaders. Yeah, it's a great message. Here now, Dr. Gary Chapman, speaking at St. Peter's

Church and World Outreach Center in Winston, Salem, North Carolina on today's episode of Focus on

the Family with Jim Daly. And we'll start

with a brief recap for those who missed last time. And essentially what I want to do is to share

with you the five fundamentals of what a healthy family looks like. You know, we're in danger in our generation

of forgetting what a healthy family even looks like.

You know, when they train bankers,

tellers at the bank,

to spot counterfeit bills,

they don't show them a lot of counterfeit bills. What they have them do is focus on the real thing.

And if you focus on the real thing, you can spot a counterfeit. So we've had so much talk the last 20 years about dysfunctional families that almost everybody I meet thinks

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