One of the central features of any Eid al Adha celebration is family. Like Thanksgiving in the United States, Eid al Adha is a time with extended families gather to honor the religious traditions of the holiday but to do that together. Adult children routinely come home if they’ve moved away. The women work together to create great meals. The men sip tea and catch up on one another’s lives. The cousins play and play and play.
Throughout the scriptures God engages with whole families: Noah and his whole family get on the Ark; Abraham is promised a growing family; Jesus is born into a family, Lydia, the Phillipian jailer, Cornelius, Crispus the synagogue ruler and their whole households are saved. Some have said that when an individual comes to faith you have the beginnings of a disciple but when a whole family comes to faith – as is so often the case in the book of Acts – you have the beginnings of a church.
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