FELLOWSHIP, FAMILY & FOREVER

Nail It Before it Moves

Key Thought

Family is absolutely a key essential in God’s Mission

Defining Family

Structure-functionalists: society creates subsets of people structured to help meet the needs of society.

Institutionalists: emphasize the biological relationship among family members.

Defining Family

Interactionists: performance of family roles is important, not the biological or marital relationship.

Situationalists: focus on social, cultural and physical forces beyond the individual's control which compel individuals to assume family-related role behaviors.

Defining Family

Economists: the family is a production and consumption unit.

The state: definition of family is based on the

needs of the state.

Through the lens of Scripture

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it …. (Gen. 1:28)

If you are not married you are not to be fruitful and multiply.

And they brought all her relatives (ְׁש��ָּפ��ָח�הִמ ) and put them outside the camp of Israel.

But Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household (ִית � ,and all who belonged to her (ַּבJoshua saved alive.

Joshua 6:23-25

Jesus expands the concept of family

“…who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,… (Jn 1:12)

“…received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, … (Romans 8:16)

You have a role at Grace Church

Become a big brother or sister, or an aunt or uncle. A surrogate grandfather or grandmother.

Nutrition and Protection

“…just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. “ (John 13:34)

When God designed marriage He already had in mind Christ and the Church.

Colossians 2 & 3

10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 Jn 4:10 ESV)

Propitiation: to pay the necessary price for the expiation and removal of the sins of the people.

So What?

Nail it before moves!