Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Genesis 2:18-24; 4:1-2
by: Judith Houts.
Cain and Abel were born into an already broken family because Adam and Eve had disobeyed God. They were experiencing the results of their disobedience—hard work and pain—but Adam and Eve’s pain was just beginning. Sometimes we think that divorce is the definition of a broken family. But, in my opinion, the true broken family is the one in which the parents do not follow God’s will for themselves or their children. The consequences of this spiritually broken home can be just as devastating as it was for Adam and Eve. As a church, let us take seriously our responsibility to come alongside all of our families and help them to become spiritually whole.