If you have been there and I have--you know about the spasms of despair that wrench a kid whose home is \"broken.\" It doesn t matter that other kids have the same problem: you know only the fear and the gnawing guilt that mavbe you are the reason Morn and Dad fight and the family isn t together. You cry when nobody is looking, and you learn to tell the difference between the \"God bless you\" types and the one person who cares enough--and knows enough to pull you to safety. One Home at a Time is a salvage vessel. It escorts the reader through a no-nonsense tour of the slums of discordant and dis- jointed families. It touches the taproot of decay m our country--the most prosperous and blessed nation in the world s history. Ringing with authenticity, it calls divorce a national disaster, a killer of cul- ture; then it leads the way to higher ground. Dennis Rainey left my classroom more than two decades ago, a restless young reconnaissance man determined to find a formula for slowing the failure rate in American homes. He gave voice to FamilyLife, focusing intently on preventive care for married couples. Now this firebrand has declared war on the dissolution of home life. He has nailed his theses to America s front door and called for a Family Reformation. A mystery stow mixed with a construction kit. these pages build a framework for fulfillment in living. When disapp i~ents undo our dreams, a whole new o~n!.ty is- waiting. Like the thaw in C. S. Lewis s Narnia, peace of mind melts our frustrations, even though we have been groping m the dark wardrobe of dysfunctional home life. The Family Reformation happens. Dennis says, when life and truth collide. His truth streams from a biblical base: he explains that God s method has no factory of mass production. He touches one person, one family, one home at a time. There is no substitute for placing a clean person in a corrupt sooety and effecting change.
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