Greg, I stand overstated.  I certainly agree the primary responsibility for the entire family is the father.  I also believe a parent should teach their children the whole law.  What I am asking concerns how the church can support, help a parent.  In the background of this question is the family structure of the Old Testament.  A family would be gathered around a patriarch.  His children, grandchildren, and so on for Methuselah, would live as a big extended family.  They would raise thier children together and teach the law together.  Once upon a time, Western families had to live like this too.  Not so much today.  So, I ask, without this structure which was implied in the Deut 6 command, how can the church be your family?  Since that is exactly what we are.  If we had another elder chatting, he may say, “it takes a church to raise a child.”  I would give him a good-gamer.  If you do not desire the exhortation of others I will just hold your son upside-down until my arms get tired because he is quite fun. 

Maybe another question to pursue after Jonathon gets off his “I love Presbyterians but they should be SBC” kick might be husband-wife relations??

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