Children need to see the best and worst of marriage in order to understand not only the depth of sin but also the luminescent glory of conviction, repentance, grace, reconciliation, and celebration. Otherwise relational darkness will be known but not named. And it will poison the hope of healing. ..Whenever parents fail to grow as human beings, we also refuse that growth opportunity for our children. We cant take our children any farther in life, relationahip, and love that the point we have chose to progress on our own and in our marriages…True redemption involves being struck dumb by the enormity of our failure and then struck even dumber by the enromity of the heart of God that cancels our debt.
~ Dan Allender, How Children Raise Parents, p. 94, 102, 104
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The Other Journal (redesigned and relocated)
The Other Journal, an intersection of theology and culture, has been redesigned and relocated to form a partnership with Mars Hill Graduate School. Many will know Mars Hill by their president, author and speaker Dan Allender. I have posted on his book How Children Raise Parents.
The current issue is Psychopathology: Virtue, Sin and Psychosis in the new Millennium.