#8: Family, Basic Building Blocks of a Free Nation

#8: Family, Basic Building Blocks of a Free Nation

God is Trinity, so we have been made for relationships. The family is the basic building block of society. Voluntary associations of citizens are the first place where societies problems are to be solved.

What are the signs of a healthy family?

How healthy are the families in your society?

How healthy is your family?

When there is a problem in your community, to who do people look to solve the problem?  The government? The ruling class? Why?

The family is the first and most basic social institution created by God. For this reason, healthy families are the fundamental building blocks of free, just, and prosperous nations.  The first lessons of virtue and self-government are taught and modeled in the home.

The life-long covenant of marriage between a man and woman before their Creator is the foundation of a healthy family. Marriage is created by God. As such, it is a sacred institution. The husband is to lead, sacrificially serve, provide for, and protect those in his home. The wife sacrificially supports and nurtures her husband and children as well as facilitates a loving and safe home environment. Parents bear the first and primary responsibility of educating their children. Their goal is to form virtuous, intelligent, and self-governing human beings with the morals needed to master themselves, and with the knowledge and skills needed to master the world. 

Without virtuous, wise citizens, healthy nations cannot be born or sustained.  Ignorance and vice lead to corruption , slavery and a culture of death; wisdom and virtue lead to justice, freedom and a culture of life. Free, just, and prosperous nations value, protect, and uphold the basic institutions of marriage and family, and place a high value on the education of its citizens.

Credit: Disciple Nations Alliance and Harvest Foundation