pre launch: In charge (week 4)

Can you imagine a stranger moving into your home?  Talk about awkward.   What if he acts like he owns the place?  He starts rearranging things.  Starts making his schedule and his priorities the most important.  Even if he’s nice about it, things would change pretty quickly.  And the whole time you’re thinking, “What are you doing here?  You’re not even a part of this family!”  Yet this is the reality for teenagers who live with a step-parent.  Just a couple stats: 

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  50% of the 60 million children under the age of 13 are currently living with one biological parent and that parent's current partner. (http://www.stepfamily.org/statistics.html)
• 40% of married couples with children (i.e., families) in the US are stepcouples (at least one partner had a child from a previous relationship before marriage; this includes full and part-time residential stepfamilies and those with children under and/or over the age of 18). (http://www.smartstepfamilies.com/view/statistics)

Just this quick internet search confirms what we already know; there are LOTS of families with step-parents.  What does God think about step-parents?  Does the Bible say anything that will help us on this subject?  Join us on Wed, Nov 20th @ 7pm as we talk about step-parents. 

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