My topic this morning you have on your paper here, what has happened to the family.

Of course I was asked before this morning to talk a little bit about that.

And I would say first of all, what has happened to the family

is that it appears to be disintegrating in so many places. But it's very heartening to me to know

that there are people here this morning who know what a Christian family is about, and probably some of you are eager to hear

as many suggestions as I can give you

as to how it is meant to operate.

We can go back to the 60s when virtually everything,

which had been considered normal and traditional was swept

off the boards. Then in the very late 60s and the early 70s, the feminist movement began.

And I don't think we have begun to realize the damage that the feminist movement has done

to all of us, to both men and women.

They insisted upon equality. And of course in God's word, we do not find equality.

C.S. Lewis said equality is a legal fiction, sometimes necessary, as for example in our Constitution,

but not by any means always useful, and certainly it is not a principle that should govern the Christian home.

It's a hierarchy, not an equality, just as God's family is. So the first thing

that I would say to you about the Christian family is that the family is Christ-centered.

If you call it Christian, that means Christ-centered. And a family

is a community established by God. It was God's idea. This transcendent God, who created the universe,

and I always thought there was just one universe,

that that meant everything, but I have read more recently

that astronomers are beginning to believe

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