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Surviving To Family: Book Review
FAMILY TO FAMILY: LEAVING A LASTING LEGACY
4MAT BOOK REVIEW

A BOOK REVIEW PAPER SUBMITTED TO

PROFESSOR JONATHAN BISHOP

EVAN 525-B11 LUO (SPRING 2014)

BY

SEAN D. DUGAN (ID# L23392324)

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

LYNCHBURG, VA
ABSTRACT

Family values are dissolving to some while others are saying that the values are just changing. One thing that is an agreement is that the world has an impact in shaping these values. With the media, athletes, and the entertainment society being role models for many people, God is being ignored. “Family to Family will help you discover God’s purpose for your family.”1 This book not only want to change an individual, it sets out to change the entire world by bringing the family back together as a unit focused on doing God’s will. Family to Family is a book for every family. This book will help families that are struggling with …show more content…
Family to Family uses six chapters to help families find their mission under God and then uses this mission to make an impact within them self, each other, and the world around them. The book starts with building a healthy family, how to make the family’s mission statement, how to passing the statement down to your children and to further generations. Family to Family then goes how the entire family can affect the world, the church and simply sharing the message of Christ with everyone. With each chapter Family to Family uses scriptures, questions, and applications to help a family themselves to become a tool used by God to impact their community and the family’s generations to come. “The case of the demise of the North American family is
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