What is foreign to our thought today is the biblical principle of representative headship. Our lack of familiarity with this principle is one of the reasons why our individualistic culture finds it so difficult to accept the covenant-family principles and practices of Scripture. As has been discussed earlier, however, the presumption that the faith of the head of the home created obligations for the rest of the family was a historical understanding for God’s people. Thus, when the Philippian jailer
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