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The Most Powerful Institution In America Isn’t the Church… It’s the God-Ordered Home
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Why The War On The Home Is Really A War on God
Most people don’t notice the family collapsing the way they notice a house fire. There’s no smoke. No sirens. No warning.
Instead, it happens the way rot does… quietly, patiently, behind the walls. One divorce here. One woke classroom lesson there. One law that “just updates” marriage for modern times. And before you know it, something ancient and solid has turned soft under your feet.
Walk through any modern neighborhood, and you can feel it… something is off. Houses still stand. Lawns are still mowed. But behind closed doors, the ground is shifting. Families fracture quietly. Marriage is redefined casually. Children are taught that truth begins with feelings and ends with self-expression.
Dethroning The Designer
Let fathers fight their real battles on their knees, carrying their sleeping families to God instead of leaving their homes uncovered in the dark.
Meanwhile, few people call it what it is.
This isn’t just cultural drift. It’s not accidental. It’s not even new.
Beneath the noise lies an old, grinding war… one not fought with rifles or tanks, but with ideas. And at the center of that war sits the biblical family: God’s first institution, His most basic form of government, and the primary target of rebellion whenever man decides he no longer wants God ruling over him.
Because to dethrone God, His design must be dismantled. And the family is always the first to fall.
The Family Was God’s First Idea
Long before there were kings, courts, or churches, there was a household.
In the Garden of Eden, God didn’t begin with a nation or a state. He began with a man and a woman… joined under His authority, given responsibility, and commanded to be fruitful and multiply. Adam and Eve weren’t just the first humans; they were the prototype. A family was God’s blueprint for civilization.
From the very beginning, Scripture places the family at the center of social order. The church exists to nurture it. Civil government exists to protect it. But the family is where faith is learned, authority is modeled, and obedience is practiced.
In fact, in early biblical history, the family held nearly every essential power except one… the authority to take life. That’s why Cain, after murdering Abel, was not executed. There was no state yet. No court system. No civil magistrate. Society consisted almost entirely of family units.
The family was society.
So when modern thinkers attack the family, they aren’t merely adjusting social customs. They are rebelling against the structure God Himself designed.
Why Humanism Always Targets the Home
Humanism cannot tolerate the biblical family for one simple reason: it cannot control it.
A God-ordered household answers to a higher authority than the state. A father who sees himself accountable to Christ will not surrender his children’s minds to bureaucrats. A mother who understands stewardship will not outsource moral formation to strangers. A family that governs itself under God resists being governed by men who reject Him.
That makes the biblical family dangerous.
So throughout history, humanism has aimed its sharpest arrows at the home. The sexual revolution was not a beginning… it was a tactic. It started with normalizing adultery, moved to promiscuity, then to the redefinition of marriage, and now presses into territory so dark it would have been unthinkable just decades ago.
Each wave tears another seam in what Scripture calls sacred.
And yet none of this should surprise us. The Bible warned that rebellion would one day reach into the home itself. Because when man refuses God’s rule, he must replace it… and the family stands in the way.
Love, Authority, and the Order God Established
Ephesians 5 has become one of the most resisted passages in modern Christianity, largely because we’ve lost the meaning of authority.
Scripture commands husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church. That’s not poetic language… it’s crucifixion language. It means sacrifice. Responsibility. Burden-bearing. Blood, sweat, and obedience.
What’s striking is that Scripture does not issue the same command to wives. Instead, wives are called to respect and submit… two words our culture has trained people to flinch at.
But this isn’t about inferiority. It’s about order.
The love Paul describes is agape… a divine, undeserved love that flows from God downward. It begins with Christ, moves to the husband, and is then extended to the family. When a husband loves this way, he is not ruling as a tyrant, but serving as a shepherd. His authority mirrors Christ’s… protective, self-denying, and accountable.
That’s why Scripture consistently places spiritual responsibility on the father. He is called to be the priest of the home… teaching the Word, setting direction, guarding doctrine, and modeling obedience.
And that role is precisely what humanism seeks to erase.
The Long Campaign Against the Christian Family
Again, this war didn’t begin yesterday.
For more than two centuries, revolutionary thinkers have openly declared hostility toward the Christian household. Marx and Engels viewed the family as the root of inequality and the primary obstacle to socialism. Engels openly argued that biblical marriage was a tool of oppression. Marx went so far as to suggest prostitution would serve society better than monogamy.
Education soon joined the campaign.
James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard and a key architect of modern public education, openly argued that democracy could not thrive unless the family’s influence was weakened. Parents, he believed, were “undemocratic” because they wanted the best for their children… not the collective as ordered by the state.
That same philosophy still shapes policy today.
Parents lose custody for discipline. Mothers are arrested for spanking. Judges declare that children “belong to the state.” Schools hide curriculum from families. The message is unmistakable: the home is no longer sacred ground.
But for believers, it’s still sacred ground.
Government Did Not Begin in Washington
Modern Americans talk about government as if it starts and ends in capitol buildings. But our forefathers understood something we’ve forgotten.
Even before the Kuyperian sphere of sovereignty, the Puritans believed that government existed in layers. First came self-government under Christ. Second came family government. Third came church government. Only then came civil government.
That order mattered.
It was well understood by theologians of a hundred years ago that a nation’s health begins at the dinner table, not in the state legislature. When families govern themselves well, the state has little to do. When families collapse, the state rushes in to fill the vacuum.
Scripture grants families enormous authority: education, inheritance, welfare, property, discipline, and faith formation. When those powers are surrendered, the home doesn’t merely weaken… it dissolves.
And we have surrendered them one by one.
Children: The First Battleground
Whoever shapes the hearts of children owns the future.
That’s why the state wants them so badly.
For most of human history, education belonged to families. Mothers taught reading. Fathers taught trades. Scripture shaped morality. Schools existed, but they served homes… not replaced them.
That changed when education became centralized.
Modern classrooms no longer teach facts. They teach a secular worldview. Sex education doesn’t simply explain biology… it preaches autonomy. Sin disappears. Boundaries become oppression. Feelings become truth.
And Christian parents are finally recognizing what’s happening.
That’s why homeschooling and Christian schools are exploding. Not out of fear… but clarity. Families are reclaiming their first stewardship.
Property, Inheritance, and the Erosion of Legacy
The Bible does not preach capitalism or communism. It preaches private ownership and family stewardship.
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” That includes land, tools, businesses, and wealth. Property is entrusted to families so they can serve God and prepare the next generation.
That’s why Scripture praises inheritance… not greed.
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.”
Yet modern systems quietly dismantle this. Taxes rise. Regulations multiply. Family farms vanish. Small businesses are swallowed. Estates are liquidated to feed bureaucracies.
Each time it happens, the family weakens, and the state grows stronger.
Welfare: When Compassion Became a Contract
In older days, churches rang bells after harvest so the poor could glean what remained. That was biblical welfare… local, personal, and covenantal.
Families cared for their own. Churches bore one another’s burdens.
Now compassion has been outsourced.
The state distributes checks, but it cannot give love. Elderly parents sit alone in institutions while systems grind on. Paul’s warning echoes louder than ever: “If anyone does not provide for his own, he has denied the faith.”
When the church surrenders mercy, it surrenders authority. And when families abandon responsibility, they abandon obedience.
The Cultural Fruit of Family Collapse
Look around, and the fruit is unmistakable.
Men abandoned responsibility, and “rights” took its place. Women followed, trading nurture for autonomy. Children learned freedom without consequence.
Now we have a culture allergic to accountability. Sin is celebrated. Shame is mocked. Authority is despised.
Scripture calls this judgment. Humanism calls it progress.
But God’s order has not changed. Greater influence still carries greater responsibility. When fathers fall, families follow. When families fall, nations unravel.
Rebuilding in the Shadow of Judgment
We are living through a time of reckoning. A “shaking” of sorts.
And one thing you can be sure of… judgment always follows rebellion. But for God’s people, judgment isn’t despair. It is refinement. Our calling is not panic, but faithfulness.
Rebuilding begins at home. The Great Commission doesn’t start overseas… it starts in living rooms. Wherever your feet touch the ground, Christ calls you to occupy.
Husbands, lead with sacrificial love. Wives, nurture wisdom and faith. Parents, shape hearts before the world does.
Let your home become a small fortress of light in a darkening land.
When Christ said, “Occupy till I come,” He didn’t mean sit still. He meant build. Steward. Guard. Stand.
And it starts with the family.
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