Jeremy and I chat about differences between eastern and western family cultures, choosing a family philosophy, developing family rhythms, and building multi-generational family teams.

"It grew out of a desire to integrate the generations."

"The biggest problem that plagues people in that stage of life, because people are living longer, is lack of purpose."

"In the Christian world we really adopt a western idea of family and Abraham had a very different idea.  He cared so much about the descendants and where his family was going and he just seemed to see all of his life through his role as a father or patriarch of this growing family line."

"God calls Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Why does He do that?  He seems to be really interested in this generational connection."

"In Genesis 1we see the reason why God created the first family, which was He wanted them to accomplish a mission: to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule. We know family has a purpose.  It is not simply to just be an environment for us to get our individual needs met."

"What was in God's heart when He made this thing called family?

"When you live for generations in a wealthy culture, individualism tends to trump family and then over time the family starts to break down."

"It's important to understand ideas matter. What you think a thing is matters.  You can see this with almost anything in life.  What is fatherhood? What is motherhood?  What is sonship? These are concepts that whatever you believe...deeply impact how you live, what you build, what you think about..."

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