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A body of academic research continues to grow to advance the church-based family ministry movement. There is a problem, however. The majority of the content produced by scholarship has, for the most part, been inaccessible to most Christian leaders. The purpose of this article is to provide a synthesis of the research regarding church-based family ministry in a format that could benefit local church leaders in their understanding and pursuit of family ministry.

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Family ministry church-based family ministry spiritual formation family discipleship faith-at-home

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A Synthesis of Academic Research related to Church-based Family Ministry

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