Dr. Paul Pearsall expresses the opinion that families aren’t failing, but we are failing the family because we have not learned how to put family life first in our world.
“Our society is interfering with the family-first feature,” he writes. “We are in familial bankruptcy and have fallen into the hands of receivers such as schools, businesses, recreational pursuits, and numerous institutional demands. The issue is not one of setting priorities; the issue is one of making difficult choices for the family. There can only be one number one,” he stresses. “Is it your family?” He makes this emphatic statement: “I warn you that if your family does not come first, your family will not last.” (Pearsall, p. 18.)
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children. -Rex D. Pinegar
Major changes in Church budgeting policies have been made, which Elder Boyd K. Packer said “will have the effect of returning much of the responsibility for teaching and counseling and activity to the family where it belongs. … There will be fewer intrusions into family schedules and in the family purses.
“Church activities must be replaced by family activities.”
Elder Packer closed his instruction by saying, “It is a course correction; it is an inspired move.” (Ensign, May 1990, p. 90.)
I feel in the eternal, spiritual sense of course God comes first.
The "Family First" idea is simply a catch phrase to help us, set our worldly concerns in the proper priority and importance. But I think as far as God is concerned, putting our family first is the same as putting Him first. The scriptures tell us:
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Matt. 25:40)
Are we putting o
ur families first?
“Our society is interfering with the family-first feature,” he writes. “We are in familial bankruptcy and have fallen into the hands of receivers such as schools, businesses, recreational pursuits, and numerous institutional demands. The issue is not one of setting priorities; the issue is one of making difficult choices for the family. There can only be one number one,” he stresses. “Is it your family?” He makes this emphatic statement: “I warn you that if your family does not come first, your family will not last.” (Pearsall, p. 18.)
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children. -Rex D. Pinegar
Major changes in Church budgeting policies have been made, which Elder Boyd K. Packer said “will have the effect of returning much of the responsibility for teaching and counseling and activity to the family where it belongs. … There will be fewer intrusions into family schedules and in the family purses.
“Church activities must be replaced by family activities.”
Elder Packer closed his instruction by saying, “It is a course correction; it is an inspired move.” (Ensign, May 1990, p. 90.)
I feel in the eternal, spiritual sense of course God comes first.
The "Family First" idea is simply a catch phrase to help us, set our worldly concerns in the proper priority and importance. But I think as far as God is concerned, putting our family first is the same as putting Him first. The scriptures tell us:
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Matt. 25:40)
Are we putting o
ur families first?
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Major changes in Church budgeting policies have been made, which Elder Boyd K. Packer said “will have the effect of returning much of the responsibility for teaching and counseling and activity to the family where it belongs. … There will be fewer intrusions into family schedules and in the family purses.
The above comment is attributed to Elder Boyd K. Packer. I'm wondering when this is actually going to take place. I've had 2 different women tell me in the past month that they are tempted to go to their bishop to tell him enough is enough. Apparently their husbands are being taken out of the house too much. This is exactly why I have boycotted home teaching.
"Think for yourself, question authority".
-Dr. Timothy Leary
I think in those areas/wards it should fall upon the Judge in Israel to take control. It appears that may not be the case in the present time.
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