Inlaws, Outlaws and other Laws...Living with Peace while offering Mercy, Grace, and Love in those tension-filled Family gatherings.
If you can remember back to the days of the video rental store, you'd browse the racks in search of a great movie or two to watch on a winter evening. Near the Holidays, there'd alway be a collection of "made for Christmas" movies. Some were serious, some romantic, and yet there was inevitably a a large of comic-relief movies. Movies about wacky families and their odd ways or full-blown conflicts. Why were those always so funny? I think it may have been because beneath the very thin verneer of a different set of faces and perhaps some very unusual situations - beneath all that - was the similarity between those dysfunctional "made-for-a-movie families and our own.
Every family is a little odd. Every family has its times of tension. Into every family come family tensions. Nothing can bring us joy and nothing can bring us sorrow or pain quite like family. Yet, no man really enjoys the tensions, the ackward feelings of inadequacy, or the private conflicts which often occur before, during, or after extended family gatherings.
Fortunately the Scriptures really do have some things to teach us and some ways to encourage us through those potential land-mines we call holiday dinners and family gatherings. Let's take a look.
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