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Family:
Traditionally the family unit would be defined as a husband and wife with the
possibility of children produced by said union. It would also extend to the
father and mother of said husband and wife, so grandparents, and aunts and
uncles and nieces and nephews and so on. The word family has come to include a
whole host of different unions today.
In our Sunday
school recently, we considered what a Biblical family looks like and what the
idea of a Christian family should look like. If you look in the Bible at
families, it doesn’t pull any punches in identifying an assortment of dysfunctional families. So we are left with the question, “what
would God want from family and in family relationships?”
It is my belief
that God wants a family to be the source of learning about Him, the place where
we find strength, refuge, character, among other empowering and good things.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You
shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say
to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes
His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous. ...
Now for this very reason also, applying
all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral
excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your
self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your
godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For
if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither
useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Clearly God
wants us to be loving and kind to reflect what it means to be a member of the
family of God. To find out more about living as a Christian in family visit:
This is another “F” website I came across in my search
with some excellent short clips on living as a follower of Jesus Christ in the
family of God..
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