Yesterday at church: be family

The sermon was on 'being family'.

Clearly our teachers saw a deficiency here and urged its correction.

However, a 'family' ethos is a result, not a cause. If our current systems are not producing the desired outcome,  then 'try harder' within these systems will achieve no change, just frustration, fatigue and disenchantment.

We must understand the system that is causing this result, and then devise relevant changes to it. It is probably a long term effort, not one that will work next week.