That’s why trusting obedience to parents, and faithful rearing of children, is tied to inheritance of the land of promise (Eph. 6:1–4). And this is why those who will not care for their own households are spoken of in Scripture as “worse than an unbeliever” and as those who have “denied the faith” (1 Tim. 5:8). The household is not just a “relationship,” but an economy, an economy where we learn something of what it means to be the children of God.
