and is suitable for him in every other way. But bondage to social status has blinded the family from seeing a key biblical principle. The decision to oppose that principle gives the message that social status is more important to this family than God and his principles. One of the most obvious signs of the primacy of God in the Christian home is prayer. Yet prayer usually does not happen naturally. We must make it happen. I had wanted to write “Take time to pray” here; instead, I am saying,