Half of Kids
I'm not sure why, but when family life changes, sometimes, the church doesn't.
Show Notes
About the Host
About the Guest
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I'm not sure why, but when family life changes, sometimes, the church doesn't.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
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I’m not sure why, but when family life changes, sometimes, the church doesn’t.
Ron: I’m not sure why, but when family life changes, sometimes, the church doesn’t.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Every once in a while, we see a large company go out of business because they failed to adapt to changing times. Well, I’m afraid that thousands of churches are not adapting to the changing nature of families and are, therefore, teetering on becoming irrelevant. Now, I’m not talking about moral issues. I’m talking about understanding families.
For the first time in American history, less than half of teens in the U.S. are living with their married biological parents and half of all kids will have a stepparent at some point in their life. And yet, rarely do churches have a single parent ministry or a blended family ministry. You know, to lead people to where they need to be, you have to meet them where they are. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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