Jesus Loves Families

Read the text and briefly discuss it together. Some discussion-starter questions are provided. Then read the closing text as a guide to your family prayer and finish by praying together and singing a hymn. This life is a battleground in more ways than one. It is a fight between good and evil. God is good. The devil is evil. We all pick sides whether we mean to or not. If we don’t mean to, we’ve picked the wrong side. There’s only one way to join God’s good army and that’s to mean to through faith in Jesus. We sometimes talk about “fighting the good fight,” a biblical term (1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7) that doesn’t mean a literal fistfight at all. It usually means teaching, influencing, and working to overcome and replace something wrong with something right. It means we’re not just trying to do what pleases us selfishly but doing what will benefit many people. That’s what we call “the greater good,” and it’s what “the good fight” is all about. So, when the Bible talks about fighting ...