Family (Flores)

by Zeke Flores

Family is one of the coolest ideas from the mind of God (and He has a lot of cool ideas!).

Family is love, laughter, acceptance, encouragement, and mutual strength. I love being with my family and just watching how they enjoy each other. What a great relationship! Little wonder, then, that God likens it to another great relationship: His church.

Some folk complain about their church and how dysfunctional it seems. Well, of course, there are dysfunctional churches, just like our blood families; they're made up of dysfunctional, fallible people! But at the core of every church is a nucleus of those who love the Lord, His people, and His cause. They provide a sense of belonging, and there is no sense of belonging like that of being in a family, no love like familial love. No wonder Scripture describes God's people in such terms.

"So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers but ... members of God's household" (Ephesians 2:19).