hard in their Christian life. If your role model is hostile, you may pick up some of those hostility patterns yourself. If your role model is loving, you will see that as an ideal to be emulated. However, there is one big problem. If we see family relationships built primarily on the basis of modeling, we can end up being the carbon copy of someone else. Unfortunately, I have seen this happen in too many situations. We as ministers can be the most guilty of trying to mold others into exact replicas