My friend Jon was discussing people who have left family to go into the ministry. The idea was that these men and women, who have led multitudes to Christ, are more worthy of the Kingdom. We often see this with pastors and missionaries and excuse their failures with their children because of the work they do, neglecting them to do "God's work". Many missionaries send their children to schools in another country, not seeing them for months at a time. Billy Graham did this and it caused a childhood of great pain, rebellion and grief in his son Franklin. The typical response of the children is to rebel. Jon quipped, "but look at Franklin now, he has taken over his father's ministry". My question, "At what cost?"
There is no other success that can compensate for failures in the family.
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