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HorizontalVertical
The Cross of Christ
Over-emphasis On the Vertical Relationship
Over-emphasis on
the Horizontal Relationship
They Work Together
The managers, teachers, curators, CEO=s of the home:
PARENTS
The Role of Parents• Bible Teachers• Carpenters• Chiefs of Police• Detectives• Doctors• Entertainers• Executive Chefs• Faith Healers• Gardeners• Guardian Angels• Hotel Managers• Lawyers• Librarians• Massage Therapists• Mechanics
• Miracle Workers• Nurses• Ophthalmologists • Pastors• Philosophers• Politicians• Psychologists• Referees • Sex Educators• Social Workers• Standup Comedians• Surgeons• Tile Layers• Watchmen• Weird
It’s an awesome responsibility
The church preaches the gospel, but it’s in the HOME we LIVE the gospel.
“Every family is a church over which parents preside. The first consideration of parents should be to work for the salvation of their children.” Child Guidance 549
“The greatest evidence of the power of Christianity that can be presented to the world is a well-ordered, well-disciplined family. . . .
Adventist Home Page 31
“One well-ordered, well- disciplined family tells more in behalf of Christianity than all the sermons that can be preached . . .”
Adventist Home page 31
Bahamian Families 2000 Statistics
37,321 Bahamian homes where married parents live
together
50,140 Bahamian homes where no married parents
live together. 7, 342 Common Law Households
87,742 Households in the Bahamas
42.5%
57.5%
Take off 20,000 homes with absentee parents
17,321 Bahamian homes where married parents live
together
70,140 Bahamian homes where no married parents
live together. 7, 342 Common Law Households
87,742 Households in the Bahamas
19.7%
79.3%
What kind of parent are you?
If your children were asked to pin a TITLE on you, your children will most likely label you as:
• Helper• Thinker• Boss• Talker• Sweet• Generous
• Okay• Stubborn• Troublesome• Cantankerous• Grouchy• Military Leader
Task Master
Pleaser
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when heis old, he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6King James Version
New Living Translation
“Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.”
Deuteronomy 11:19-21
19. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away on a journey, when you are lying down and when you are getting up again.
20. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21. So that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.
What are parents to teach?Deut 11: 1 & 8
1. You must love the LORD your God and obey all his requirements, laws, regulations, and commands
8. "Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and occupy the land you are about to enter.
RulesRelationships
or
Rules without relationships
breedChaos
Four Parenting Styles
AUTHORITARIAN 1.
Little love, plenty rules. National Results:
Violent Society, unsafe communities.
Four Parenting Styles
PERMISSIVE 2.
High on love and low on limits. National Results:
Permissive society. Anything goes.
Four Parenting Styles
REJECTINGNEGLECTING
3.
Low on love and limits.
National Results:Cold and indifferent society.
Four Parenting Styles
DEMOCRATIC4.
High on love and high on limits. National Results:
Responsive, caring, non-violent, and educated society
Balanced parenting style
“Those we must change we must first love.”
Dr. Martin Luther King
DisciplinePunishment
or
Discipline is a PROCESSnot a single event.
Discipline is an ENVIRONMENTnot just a circumstance.
Discipline is a LIFESTYLEnot just a one-shot deal.
Punishment is correcting a specific wrong.
Discipline is the building of lives.
Parents’ primary responsibilities are to teach their children to act responsibly, and to think independently and critically.
Basic Individual Values Needed for Healthy Nation
Building
• Literacy• Community• Equality• Faithfulness• Friendliness• Industriousness• Integrity
• Loyalty• Justice• Mercy• Reliability• Selflessness• Sobriety• Righteousness
Ten Basic Principles of Family Life that Affect Nation Building
Respond to your handout
The Brennen's 1 Corinthians 13
"If I speak in tongues of nations and of angels, but have not a loving attitude, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have no love in my heart, I am nothing.
If I am a vegetarian, and do not eat dairy products to reduce my sinus problem, and I cannot share lovingly with others, my diet is in vain. If I exercise five times a week at the gym or on sports track, and I cannot share my energy in a loving way, my walking and running will be in vain. I can still die of a heart attack.
If I am financially independent and able to give to all church projects but I have not love, my giving will be in vain. If I eat lots of broccoli soup to reduce the cancer risk, make my own gluten, or eat only boiled fish for meat, and refuse to share in loving relationships, my life will be meaningless. I can still die prematurely.
Love never fails. College degrees, beautiful houses, gorgeous clothing, speaking in tongues, evangelistic crusades, and health seminars, will all pass away.
Now these five remain: financial independence, a healthy lifestyle, faith, hope, and loving relationships. But the greatest of all of these is
LOVING RELATIONSHIPS."
Go and change the nation
The End