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22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
4 Fathers,[a] do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
1. CFC is one body throughout the world, with one vision, one mission, and also one culture.
2. God wants to create a new humanity, one that would live His life on earth. We are to be witnesses to His work in our lives.
3. Our response will determine the effectiveness of our witness. Our positive response will keep us united and will enable the Lord to use us for mission.
3. Prayer and Scripture.
a) We are to have a daily conversation with God.
* Eph 6:18.
18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
Colossians
An Encouragement for Prayer
2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
b) We are to receive wisdom, guidance and life from God's Word.
* Col 3:16a.
16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts
Heb 4:12.
12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
We are to be men and women of faith.
a) What is faith? Heb 11:1.
11 Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
b) We can depend on divine providence. Lk 12:22 31.
We should not worry about tomorrow God will provide everything we need just trust and have faith.
5. Life as a body.
4. Order in the family.
c) Jesus is our focus. Heb 12:2a. (because Jesus is in the center of our lives that is why there is always Joy in our heart
a) The Christian family is at the very center of God's plan.
* As the basic unit of society, the condition of families will determine the condition of societies.
b) We need to strengthen the family.
* God's order: headship and submission. Eph 5:22 25.
* We are to fulfill our responsibilities in the Lord.
Husband: govern, provide, protect.
Wife: partner, support, homemaker.
Parents: raise children in the Lord. Eph 6:4.
* Always have Jesus at the center of family life.
a) We are one body, with a common life.
* Not individualistic, but brethren.
* Not pursue holiness just individually, but also corporately.
b) One concrete expression is the household.
* A concrete manifestation of being "family".
* Our weekly "spiritual filling station".
* A place to truly love our brethren.
* Prayers
* Evangelization
* Service to others
The basic Christian beliefs and values are those held in common by all orthodox Christians.
Beliefs: Jesus is Lord, life after death, etc.
Values: What we consider desirable, e.g., loyalty, dependability, dignity of life, etc.
In addition, we stress the importance of marriage and family life.
1. Culture = the way of life of a people.
2. Christianity is a culture
From darkness to light
Once no people, now God's people
We are strangers and in exile
Eph 4:17 -18
What did God do for us?
Colossians 1: 13
Instructions for Christian Living
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
Eph 4:22-24