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Family Values: Partnership
Week 5

Big Idea Of This Series: This five-week series looks at biblical principles that build a strong family and a loving, Christ-centered home. Family life is filled with joyous wins and troubling struggles. Finding stability, safety, and community in Christ allows us to persevere through whatever comes with an enduring hope for ourselves and our families.

So far we talked about:

  • Just like a home every family needs a strong foundation.
  • A Christ-centered home begins with Christ-centered people.
  • If we want it to be in them it has to be in us.
  • There Is No Such Thing As The Perfect Family.
  • But There Is A Perfect God Who Wants To Use Every Family.
  • Mutual submission is a marker of a Christ-centered home.
  • What you do every week matters.
  • The best way to shape a person’s character & faith is through small, consistent deposits.
  • Create a rhythm in your home that leverages routine times to influence those closest to you every week.
  • You are not raising children, you are raising adults.
  • Keep your mouth shut & the welcome mat out.

Every family needs help at some point in their lives.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NLT “Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Two influences combined are better than two separate influences.

It takes a village and a church.

Acts of the Apostles 2:42-47 NLT All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need.They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosityall the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

When the church and the family partner together, it can shape a family’s future.

Acts of the Apostles 16:1-2 NLT Paul went first to Derbe and then to Lystra, where there was a young disciple named Timothy. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek. Timothy was well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium

2 Timothy 1:5 NLT I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.