Christ Centered Family

Christ Centered Family

•    This Week we will finish looking at a Christ centered family, most of these points are from the Focus on the Family website . 

  Joy is characteristic of a truly Christian home.

Happiness is a result of what happens to us. Joy has deeper roots.

•      A Christian home is orderly.

, "God is not the author of confusion but of peace" (I Corinthians 14:33).

•      A Christ-centered home should be marked by grace.

•      A Christian home is a place of service. Colossians 3

Its atmosphere

Christ-centered wives are submissive (Col 3:18)

Christ-centered husbands are loving and tender (Col 3:19)

Christ-centered children are obedient (Col 3:20)

Christ-centered fathers are encouragers (Col 3:21)

•      A Christ-centered home is a place where the spiritual disciplines are practiced.

Deuteronomy 4:9

(9)  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

•      A Christian home is based on God's purposes for every member of the household. It's a place where the family's goals are founded upon His values and where the corporate vision of the future is consistent with His plan.