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Honoring Our Fathers And Mothers?

A question I’m often asked as a pastor is about the biblical calling to “honor your parents.” It’s in the ten commandments. It’s in the New Testament household codes. And it’s a hard commandment for many believers to parse, especially as adults, because parental relationships are always complicated and at times profoundly broken by sin. What does it mean to obey this commandment when a parent is hostile to faith? When they are engaged in sinful and destructive actions? When they are being fools? And even worse, given how well-known the command is, what about when the parent uses the calling itself as a cudgel to demand compliance? First, a note about Christian ethics more broadly. Many Christians, especially those who purport to take the Bible seriously, think that a faithful reading of Scripture always means a simple one. “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.” And certainly, there are boundaries Scripture gives that work like this. There is no ambiguity about, say, worshi...

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