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Are Our Homes for Sale?
The large hand-lettered sign in a front yard read simply:
HOME FOR SALE, BY OWNER
Unfortunately, many people are selling their homes! There is a difference between a
house and a home.
Homes are being sold everyday because of moral and spiritual bankruptcy … because of social
pressures, permissiveness, and materialism … because of unfaithfulness, bitterness, and divorce.
The late Batsell Barrett Baxter suggested some ways we can be guilty of selling our
homes without realizing it:
Preoccupied Fathers. Several surveys indicate that most fathers spend little time with their
children.
Working Mothers. As more and more mothers have left the home because of economic
pressures, social problems with children have increased.
Disappearance of the Extended Family. Few young people grow up these days surrounded by
close relatives.
The Invasion of the Home by TV. Television exposes family members to attitudes,
philosophies, and lifestyles which undermine the family unit.
A Deluge of Outside-the- Home Activities. Too often, the home has become a motel —a place
to eat, sleep and change clothes before rushing off to the next activity.
A Disregard of Biblical Standards. Families have been traditionally established and maintained
by Bible principles such as love, respect, duty, honor, humility, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness,
and diligence.
We may need to sell a house at some point, but let’s never sell our homes! ~Unknown
via Hillsboro church of Christ, El Dorado, AR
