The term nuclear was first used to describe the family because the family is the 'nucleus' of all. It forms the center of everything in our society.
Today when we hear nuclear we think atomic. I think this also fittingly, perhaps even more so, describes the family.
When family is done well and right and when parents die to themselves and mirror Christ, and teach their children how to die to themselves, and when a husband leads - Nuclear power is the result. When done right the family is the equivalent of awesome nuclear energy, with the power to sustain nations and provide peace and prosperity.
When done wrong, when the dad is not in the home, when the children are sacrificed on the alter of material gain, there is nuclear fallout that lasts for generations.
amen. Toby Sumpter said something similar in a blog post last year and at the FLF conference the analogy was molotav monogamy, stressing the point that marriage and family are dangerous. that part is inescapable, the only question is dangerous to what end or dangerous for whom? a good and godly family is a danger to the darkness. a disordered and ungodly family is a danger to itself and its neighbors, but it cannot avoid producing something powerful and world changing, as you point out: clean, usable energy or fallout; does it heat the house in the winter or melt the house down into oblivion?
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