The family--

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The family-- An evangelistic center


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1. Families are in Trouble ????????

• The Divine ideals for
• marriage and family are
• scarcely evident
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• Changes in the world
• brought about significant
• social changes
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Social Changes Affecting Marriage and
Family ????????????

• Attitudes toward marriage
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Marriage is changing from a lifelong commitment
to a less permanent contractual
arrangement based on personal
fulfillment ??,???????? ??,????????????????,??????
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• Role Conflicts
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Working wives outside the home requires
change of roles and responsibilities ?????????,???
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The need for a more flexible role structure
is a source of considerable stress
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• Financial Pressures
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Rising costs of living and the desire for
material possessions have driven many to
search for ??????????????,??????
better wages ?????
additional jobs ????
more education?????
overextend credit ?????
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• Sexual Revolution
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Traditional mores concerning sexuality have
been eroded (e.g. cohabitation) ????????????
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Homosexual as well as premarital and
extramarital sexual experiences are
common ??????????????????
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• Parenting Inadequacy
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• Parents are involved with
• pressures and responsibilities
• of work that result in
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--little time with their children ?????????
--little opportunity for meaningful
relationships ??????????????
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• Family Violence
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All family membershusbands, wives, parents,
grandparents and childrenare victimized by
family violence. ??????,???????????
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Child abuse has reached epidemic
proportions ????????
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• Escalating Divorce
• Rate
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• Contributing factors include
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• Unresolved marital conflict,
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• Softening of divorce laws
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• Better economic conditions for
• women
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• Increase in One-
• parent Households
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Increase in out-of-wedlock births, rise in
the number of marital break-ups have led to a
dramatic rise in the number of one-parent
households and divided parenting situations
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• Remarriage and
• Blended Families
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Many who lose marital partners soon remarry
another who bring their children to this
marriage ??????,?????????,???????????
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• Encroaching
• Secularism
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Though connected with the church, Christians
too live in a fallen world. Secularism,
thought of here as the antithesis of
spirituality, is making inroads in families
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2. The Family Needs Nurture and
Instruction ???????????
The challenge facing the Church is to
nurture its members, presenting biblical
concepts of marriage, parenting and family
living ???????????? ??????????????
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activity
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• Work in groups of twos or threes and come up
  with a list of ideas for Family Evangelism
• 2-3???,???????????
• E.g. Spend special time alone with each child
  discussing their spiritual life.
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• E.g. Have a prayer list for non-Christian
  relatives
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a. Focus on Gods Purpose for the
Family ????????????

• Truths regarding the family
• has been divinely revealed
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• The idea of family is Gods
• design
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• God knows how a family
• functions best
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Our Mission Inside Our Homes
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• Family first?????
• Helping children to a place of faith
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• The blessing of a Christian partner
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b. Unfold the spiritual dynamics that are
at work in families ????????????

• A well-rounded ministry
• places high priorities on
• spiritual emphasis
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• Teach and encourage
• interesting ways of
• conducting family worships
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• Present Scriptural concepts
• of family living
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The challenge of the church is to present
Scriptural concepts of ???????????? ??????????

• marriage ??

• parenting????

• family living????

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• Include Life in Holistic
• Ministry
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• Include families as integral
• to church activities
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• family participation
• in church worship
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• family evangelism
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• family involvement in
• outreach programs
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