They can pour their time and energies into the endeavor to replace sinful patterns with Biblical patterns of life. Rather than wasting time minimizing or denying the fact of sin, Christians can concentrate on dealing with sin. There is then no necessity to subject children to unusual and inappropriate discipline or to the excessive anger that sometimes grows out of embarrassment. No, not that at all. Rather, they will acknowledge sin for what it is and will proceed to deal with it in a Biblical manner.
Christians know what to do about their sins.
Because they have the Bible as the standard of faith and practice, Christians not only know why problems occur in the home, but they know what to do about them. Thus the truly Christian home differs from the home next door in that it can use Biblical precepts and examples successfully to handle and recoup from every occurrence of sin. This, again, is a significant difference. Because this book largely is devoted to a consideration of many of the most common problems found in the Christian home, I will not enlarge upon this point here. Christians progress out of their sins .