The church is not a platform to serve a pastor’s visionary ideals, social stature, or emotional well-being. The church is the blood-bought property of God. For a pastor to treat the people as his platform is an act of treasonous theft, stealing for himself that which Christ our great high priest has purchased at the cost of his own blood.

If we want our family ministries to be effective, we need to involve parents.

We in the family-equipping movement are specifically seeking practices of family ministry that are driven and defined by a Scripture-saturated plan for equipping parents to embrace primary responsibility for their children’s discipleship.

In many ways the family-equipping model represents a middle route between the family-integrated and family-based models.

The family-based model seeks to merge a comprehensive-coordinative vision for parents with the segmented-programmatic perspective that remains prevalent in many contemporary churches.

The family-integrated approach represents a complete break from the “neo-traditional” segmented-programmatic church.

After decades on the back burner of congregational life, family ministry has suddenly become a hot topic.