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Try preaching this text on the Festival of the Christian Home! The love and endurance of the family, nuclear or whatever configuration, has sometimes in some congregations become the major emphasis of the Christian message. And the value of faith cannot be underestimated. However, we may not have invented this relegation of the purpose of faith to uphold family structures.
Thus in the film based on Ken Kesey's novel Sometimes a Great Notion, the main family does not know how or want to alter its environmentally ruthless ways in the Pacific Northwest. Over the fireplace is the family motto: "Never give an inch."
Families need redemption too. Reuel Howe told of a young couple just married; the husband asked "How come you cut the ham in two pieces every time you cook this meal?" The young bride said her mother always did. So later he asked her mother, who said her mother always did so she did too. Finally he asked grandmother who replied, "Do they still do that? I used to cut the ham because when grandpa and I were first married we didn't have a large enough pot!"
Thus in the film based on Ken Kesey's novel Sometimes a Great Notion, the main family does not know how or want to alter its environmentally ruthless ways in the Pacific Northwest. Over the fireplace is the family motto: "Never give an inch."
Families need redemption too. Reuel Howe told of a young couple just married; the husband asked "How come you cut the ham in two pieces every time you cook this meal?" The young bride said her mother always did. So later he asked her mother, who said her mother always did so she did too. Finally he asked grandmother who replied, "Do they still do that? I used to cut the ham because when grandpa and I were first married we didn't have a large enough pot!"
