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The goal of biblical parenting is not to produce the appearance of a family without sin. Such a family doesn’t exist. Instead, the goal is to cultivate a home in which sin is neither ignored nor enjoyed, neither concealed nor broadcast, and neither excused nor weaponized. It’s a home where truth is spoken in love, discipline aims at restoration, repentance is welcomed, forgiveness is practiced, and shame is covered.
This ethical stew of truth mixed with error is enough to make one sick. Ironically, to walk away from the book of Judges feeling sick means that the book’s purpose has been rightly understood! This harrowing portion of Scripture is precisely intended to whet the hearer’s redemptive appetite. Is there anyone who can lead righteously?
So it is that God’s grace in the book of Ruth could be succinctly summarized like this: “Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that… ‘A son has been born to Naomi!’ So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David” (Ruth 1:1, 4:17).