FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Is Your Family Broken?

with
July 22, 2021
MP3 Download
FamilyLife Blended® Minute
FamilyLife Blended® Minute
Is Your Family Broken?
Loading
/

About the Guest

Photo of Ron Deal

Ron Deal

Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.

About the Host

Photo of Ron Deal

Ron Deal

Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.

Episode Transcript

Ron: Ok, folks, let’s be careful with our words.

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: Someone might call a divorced family a broken family. Well, how would you feel if I called you broken? Now, if you mean fractured, yes, it’s no longer intact. But when we say broken what people often hear is, “less than.” That communicates condemnation and unworthiness. Are divorced people and their kids less than? Are we implying that they can’t be whole? We don’t call widowed families broken.

Let me encourage you. Use less pejorative terms like “divorced family” or “single parent family” and let’s reserve the term broken for ourselves as we kneel at the foot of the cross. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

Announcer: To find out more visit familylifeblended.com.

FamilyLife Blended with Ron Deal is a production of FamilyLife. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.

We are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you’ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs?

Visit http://www.familylifeblended.com/donate.

Copyright © 2021 FamilyLife. All rights reserved.

www.FamilyLife.com