JOEL - That is exactly the way I was taught in our church also. Church members only say "family first" in relation to how we set our priorities and choose to spend our time on the things we do while living this life on a day to day basis. In the eternal, spiritual sense of course God comes first. That is assumed.

A President of the LDS church, Ezra Taft Benson said this:

"We must put God in the forefront of everything else in our lives. He must come first, just as He declares in the first of His Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"(Ex. 20:3). When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives." (Ezra Taft Benson, "The Great Commandment Love the Lord," Ensign, May 1988, 4)

The "Family First" idea is simply a catch phrase to help us, especially our children, set our worldly concerns in the proper priority and importance. But I think as far as God is concerned, putting our family first is the same as putting Him first. The scriptures tell us:

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Matt. 25:40)