Peacemaking for Families (Focus on the Family)

great

I use this book regularly in pre-marital but also marriage counseling. I find the examples and focus of the book to be more practical than just using the Peacemaker book.

I teach a Marriage and the Family class at a Bible college and I am planning on making this book required reading next year. I have already begun to implement the principles in my own marriage and it is truly transformational. My husband's biggest complaint is that I don't "listen" and I could never pinpoint what it was that gave him that impression. This book definitely clarified how to listen, and how to make a wise appeal (without coming across as challenging and opinionated). The stories he uses to illustrate really help make the principles concrete. Nobody ever gets formal instruction in regards to communication, confrontation, listening, and conflict resolution so people are just left to follow the "monkey see-monkey do" approach...hence the major dysfunction apparent everywhere. If everyone read this book and applied it, we'd have a totally different world. Best of all Christians could actually claim the promise of God's blessings upon themselves as peacemakers - for they shall be called the children of God (Matthew 5:9).

Peacemaker Ministries has hit another home run with this book. Taking the basic, biblical principles from The Peacemaker by Ken Sande, they have adapted them to application within a family setting.Good job, Peacemaker Ministries! In addition, being a pastor, I decided to use this book as a tool for premarital counseling with a young couple. It replaced a previous book on communication. I told them to not study the sections pertaining to children, but to read the sections for the married couple. Feedback from the couple is that this was one of the most helpful things that I used with them as they prepared for marriage.

Great for pre-marital counseling or for learning how to resolve conflict in your family.

Really liked this book and the only reason I didn't give it an excellent rating is because I found it became a bit redundant toward the end. There is one excellent quote that has stayed with me for months that describes this book in a sentence...."God is eager to display the wonders of the Gospel in the midst of our marital and family conflicts so that He can reveal the Life-changing power of His Son, Jesus Christ." I have used that quote serval times, giving Ken Sande credit (!), but I omit 'marital and family' and add suffering to the conflict section of that phenomenal statement.

I like this book because it gives a practical approach to handling all different types of conflict within families - conflicts between husband and wife, parent and child, parent and adult child, siblings, etc. Although the examples given are geared specifically toware family conflicts, the guidelines are based on biblical principles and can be used in any conflict situation. The author gives many examples of family conflicts resolved and relationships restored. I found it to be both encouraging and helpful.

it is a great book to use as a guide to help with the messiness of restoring broken hurting relationships within a familyIt is written using biblical verses as a guide but also is written that if people do not have Christian beliefs , they also can get the principles to restore relationships

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