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Week 1: Blueprints for God’s Design of Family

The family is God’s blueprint for human flourishing

• Individuals and the church

 

Week 2: Laying The Foundation For Healthy Families

Biblical values form a strong foundation for healthy families

• Individuals and the church

Today is about:

Quality Framing for Quality Families
Framing is what gives the house…

• Structure
• Strength/resilience
• Holds up everything above it

This isn’t actually about building houses; it is about building STRONG, HEALTHY FAMILIES

 

Like houses, they also provide:

• Structure
• Strength/resilience
• Holds up everything above it

The framing that supports a healthy family is…

MATURITY

 

The reason we’re talking about maturity is because…

Maturity is modeled and grown in the FAMILY

 

Family is the primary place where maturity takes place

• Testing of maturity/quality

 

What is maturity?

Maturity is a learned QUALITY

Like a house that fell down — Lacked quality (Maturity)
Diamonds

• Pressure
• Time
• Tough
• Does not break
• It does not get affected by things around it

Quality takes time

Quality is INTENTIONAL
We have a quality problem when it comes to our culture

• Because we have a maturity problem

The Christian family and Church must reflect back the QUALITY of Christian maturity to the culture that surrounds it

• Instead of the culture reflected in the family and church

 

Paul to the Corinthians

• Colony of Rome
• A melting Pot of culture
• A key aspect to the city was The Temple of Aphrodite
• Many new Christian families were acting like they were before following Jesus

“On the summit of this steep mountain stood the temple of Aphrodite, a symbol of the lust which pervaded the mind of the city”
Paul writes to correct and focuses on CHRISTIAN MATURITY
1 Corinthians 1

26 Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. 27 Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 28 God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, 29 so that no one may boast in his presence. 30 It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption— 31 in order that, as it is written: Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.

 

1: Christian Maturity is the Quality of Humility

• Choosing to be humble or get humbled

Maturity is the ability to “GET OVER YOURSELF”

 

A Child is SELFISH

• My toy
• My Feelings over yours

We don’t give into CHILDISH SELFISHNESS; we teach MATURE SELFLESSNESS

 

A selfish person is an IMMATURE person

• They only take from those around them
• They don’t have maturity
• Bring harm to those in a relationship with them

 

God can’t work with prideful hearts because they are a part of IMMATURE people

 

As families, we teach HUMILITY to one another

 

Peter says this about humility

1 Peter 5:5-7

5 In the same way, you who are younger (immature), be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper ti