There are many reasons why God needs to save the families described in this message. There are countless reasons why God needs to save any family. The primary reason is that we are unable to save our families ourselves. Let me illustrate a few scenes from modern American family life.

In the first scene, we see a white house on a corner with a picket fence all around it. A typical family event is occurring. The father slams the front door as he storms out of the house. The mother slams the bedroom door and falls across her bed crying. Her teenage daughter is lying across the couch, where she has fallen after her father knocked her down. The teenager came home from a party, just as her father came home from work. It was late, too late to be coming home, too late for excuses, almost too late f…