FAMILY ENRICHMENT STRATEGY FOR CHURCH GROWTH AND POLITICAL STABILITY IN NIGERIA

Ogundipe Stephen Oluwafunmilayo

Abstract


This work explores family wellbeing through enrichment strategy that possesses disposition of advancing the church
and promoting stability of political system in Nigeria. When family members display erratic behaviours that hinder
relationship significantly, it becomes detrimental to church growth and political stability. Enrichment strategy however
serves as a pragmatic instrument which prevents crisis that devastates relationship and cause fractionalization that is
detrimental to growth and stability. The research is descriptive of imbalance scenarios in the contemporary families
where dysfunction hinders growth and stability across family, church and political domains within the nation. Discovery
from readings and news of happenings affirmed the fact that imbalance in families polarises coordination, meaningful
planning that positively enhances every segment of life relationship. The research, therefore, encourages enrichment
programmes for families common good; and recommends that caregivers should proactively conduct enrichment
programmes for church growth, and political stability to boost national development and expansion of healthy
commonwealth.


Keywords


Family Enrichment, Strategy, Church Growth, Political Stability, Nigeria

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