With so many descriptions and ideas of family these days, a basic question must be asked, “What is family?” A Bible believing Christian, this question should be asked from a Biblical perspective. “What does God and His Word intend when it uses the word or words we translate as family?”

It’s not enough to define or think of family as it relates to our own personal experience and relationships. 

Traumatic events and the dysfunction has entered our relationships tend to distort and alter our understanding of family as God intended in the beginning’… during creation.

As I have studied the Biblical concept of Family, I believe the Hebrew words that are used to describe family in the Old Testament reveal God’s intent from the beginning. 

There four Hebrew “family” words that I believe are especially important in understanding God’s concept of family and His Family Plan.  As we consider each of these words you will find that they:

• ·      They are relational. They are not religious or legalistic. 
• ·      They are covenantal. They reflect bloodline. 
• ·      They reflect a developmental structure, a sequence of development.
• ·      They flow in a God-ordained sequence that progresses or advances from          generation to generation, from glory to glory.
• ·      They reveal the foundational plan and structure God intended for every human form before the foundation of the earth.
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Check out this series of Podcasts…What is family. 

Part TWO will be posted in a few days.