WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
SUCCESSFULLY BLENDING FAMILIES
“Did you ever notice how The Brady Bunch got just about all their step family challenges worked out in the first episode?” asks Ron Deal of Successful Stepfamilies.
Ron works alongside a growing number of ministries coaching families on Biblical principles to overcome the challenges of blending their families. Any home in which at least one spouse brings children from a prior relationship knows that it is much harder in real life than it was for the Brady family. That’s why blended families need to add an extra measure of intentionality including several important steps.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
GOING FURTHER
RESOURCES
- The Smart Step-Family: The Seven Steps to a Healthy Family by Ron Deal
Provides a solid Biblical framework and practical guidance for helping step families work to honor God.
- Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts by Les & Leslie Parrott
Prepares couples for what lies ahead and enables them to tackle the challenges with faith, perseverance, and hope.
- Familylife.com/blended
Provides biblically based resources that help prevent re-divorce, strengthen step-families, and help break the generational cycle of divorce.