The Perfect Christian Family: When Faith, Family, and Failure Collide

The Perfect Christian Family is a memoir with an underlying theme. It chronicles the journey of one family's struggle through the expectations of faith and the reality of the unexpected struggles of life. The underlying message is that perceived perfection does not exist under any label or in any context and having a strong faith will not insulate us from unrelenting trouble, unexpected trauma, and problematic cultural influences.The vulnerability in the story is designed to offset misconceptions about family devotion to faith, and the results that are expected because of such pristine devotion. The new emerging idea is that in acknowledging and embracing the fact that our struggles as families are very real, we no longer strive for a crippling, illusive ideal. We embrace the real and then chase the ideal. This is the place where true hope is found.The book focuses on a decade in time in which all of our Christian beliefs and practices were challenged to their core. We experienced fail