I was challenged and refreshed by a statement that Alan & Deb Hirsch made at the Live Sent Conversation last week in Lakeland. They stated that our current conservative, American view of family isn't the same as the meaning usually conveyed by Scripture. The "nuclear" family of husband, wife, two kids and a dog (you get the picture) is not the same family that was represented when Scripture uses that word. Most of the time when you read the word "family" in Scripture the meaning is larger than the nuclear family that we have grown accustomed to. Other renderings would be household, clan, tribe, group of families, or even nation.
