Did you grow up in a dysfunctional family or do you know someone who did and you find yourself trying to help them almost to no avail?

God can redeem a dysfunctional situation. He can break the cycle. He can make you new. Good

things can happen out of very bad starts.

Thanks for joining us for this

joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Chip's our Bible teacher for this international discipleship ministry

focused on helping Christians live like Christians.

Well, we appreciate you being with us today as we share part two of Chip's talk overcoming

a dysfunctional family from our series Unstuck. And real quick before we get going,

if you're experiencing some deep brokenness

and conflict in your family right now,

first listen to this entire message,

then stick around after the teaching to hear a few additional pieces of wisdom from Chip. You'll be encouraged by it.

If you have your Bible ready, go to Ephesians chapter 2 for the second half of Chip's talk.

The scripture says to these Ephesians,

everyone's a member of a dysfunctional family,

but the good news is point number 2,

Jesus intervention broke the cycle of destruction.

Every now and then there's a preposition that is in the Bible that gives me great hope and in verse 4 it says but

there's different ways that this language can say the word but in contrast

this is the strongest way it can say it.

But because of his great love, God, and then describing him

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