Family Dysfunctions, Dynamics, and Conflict Resolution
This section is about learning to address Christian family dysfunctional relationship from a 21st century perspective in a healthy and productive way to without fear of retaliation or emotional alienation (safe environment). Conflict resolution need properly established rules around what is allowable behavior and the tools needed to be successful.
This is the book that launched the Biblical Family series that is taking the world by storm! By examining the different biblical families and their dysfunctional backgrounds, this book illuminates how these exemplary families succeeded despite their hardships. Their stories brings the Bible into twenty-first century perspective to help struggling Christian families face their own difficult issues by finding and applying godly solutions. While times have changed, most marriages melees remain the same: rejection, incest, murder, greed, lies, misguided ministers, sibling rivalry, terrible in-laws, and deceptive marriages—just to name a few!
Despite all odds, some biblical families managed to rise above their crisis through love, long suffering, sacrifice, diplomacy, confrontation, and forgiveness. Similarly, any family experiencing dysfunctionality today must address it to overcome it. We all have a shared responsibility to the next generation to tackle our issues and move forward. Only when we free ourselves from secrets, shame, and the stigma that come with family issues, can we properly grow as a healthy family unit. Through the love of Christ, with a willing heart and proper counseling we can heal our not only our families but our societies. Open the pages to take the first step toward freeing your life from dysfunction today!
This workbook is designed to help you navigate through some of the critical family situations you may have experienced in your lifetime. It also gives you a better understanding about why certain family members behave in certain ways. This workbook is a great opportunity for you to finally address certain unresolved family issues that keep emerging time after time, leaving everyone angry and frustrated! Finish the workbook no matter how emotionally draining it may get—when the stories hit you hard and raw, it simply means that there is an opportunity for healing and moving forward.
If it becomes very hard for you to address some of the issues presented here, please seek professional help or speak with your pastor or teacher privately. There is also nothing wrong with the safe space of a licensed therapist. Whatever your path, let this course lead you on a journey to make better family choices and healthier personal decisions for your future. May God bless you as you embark on this twelve-week journey of self-discovery and love, focused on what a healthy and whole family should look like. Let this book be the guide that gives you the tools you need to thrive!
This Biblical Beginning teacher’s guide is designed to guide you to help your students address everyday Christian family dynamics in an honest and meaningful way while giving them the tools necessary to succeed at home. The complexity of family relationships can often leave us frustrated, drained, disappointed, hurt, and confused with feelings of rejection and even alienation. With this guide, you can help your students deal with some of the deeper challenges we face when living in a home with signs of unresolved family dysfunction.
For the next twelve weeks, you have an opportunity to address family dysfunctionality from a healthy Christian perspective steeped in honesty and transparency. The tools included in this guide, along with many teachable spirit- filled moments, will allow for courageous conversation. This text provides practical, real-life solutions and tools along with some mock scenarios for your students to work through. It is not enough to tell people to pray away their solutions—we must equip them with tools as well! When we empower families, we also empower the church to move forward.
The 13 Different Father and Daughter Relationships of the Bible offers modern-day lessons about one of our most critical parental relationships that can be healthy or destructive. This book, part of the Biblical Dysfunctional Families series, is designed to address the world’s fragile family ecosystem with primary focuses on the lack of great fathers present in their daughters’ lives. The Biblical examples in this text address the long-term impacts of fathers’ relationships with their daughters. For instance, with Lot, the incestuous father–daughter relationship marred the daughters’ lives forever, dashing any hopes of a healthy marriage. Another example is Laban, a misogynistic father who devalued his daughters by pitting them against one another for his financial gain and much more!
Despite the many terrible fathers depicted in the Bible, there are also some remarkable ones, like the first single adoptive father, Mordecai, who raised Esther to become the Queen. There is also the undisputed strong fatherly figure Zelophehad, who raised five equally strong and independent daughters to fight for the rights to their inheritance. Fatherhood is an amazing gift. This book purposefully sets out to help fathers and daughters explore and strengthen their bond sincerely and transparently. The goal is for fathers and daughters to address their needs, wants, disappointments, and joys in a way they can build a healthy, wholesome, and Bible-inspired relationship.
