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Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis!

. Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis!. . Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis! Presented by: Eric Burd & Dr. Jeff Klick

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Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis!

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  1. . Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis!

  2. . Launching the Next Generation… …Rescuing a Generation in Crisis! Presented by: Eric Burd & Dr. Jeff Klick Sponsored by: Hope Family Fellowship & Household of Faith Fellowship of Churches

  3. . Conference Overview: Saturday am 9:20 am Rebuilding Fatherhood 10:50 am Reforming the Church

  4. . Conference Overview: Saturday pm 2:00 pm Launching the Next Generation – (Family Discipleship & 14 Outcomes) 3:30 pm Question & Answer Panel

  5. . Rebuilding Fatherhood

  6. . Last night we established that there are significant Challenges in the Church Today.

  7. . First, future generations of the church are in crisis… …and it is our responsibility, as Christian householders, to reach our own children for Christ.

  8. . And that, as disciplers, we must… …establish a lifestyle of Intimacy with God in order to reach our children at a heart level for Christ.

  9. . But, in reality, the Generation in Crisis is not the root problem… …rather it is symptomatic of two deeper malfunctions in the church today…

  10. . 1) The Disintegration of the Family. 2) The Improper Functional Role of the Church in relation to the home.

  11. . In this session, we will address a solution for the disintegration of the Family… …which is the Rebuilding of the Role of Fatherhood in our Christian homes today …

  12. . In our second session this morning Pastor Klick will address Reforming the Church, steps the local church can take to inform and equip parents to more effectively fulfill their biblical roles in discipleship.

  13. . Note: Scripture clearly places the weight of leading the home firmly upon the shoulders of fathers. ********************************** So, for homes with single mothers or other loving legal guardians, we intend the term “fathers” to apply to them as well.

  14. . Text Malachi 4:5-6

  15. . Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord…

  16. . Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I smite the earth with a curse. - KJV

  17. . Could the CURSE merely be the natural consequence of parents turning their affections and attention to other things rather than fulfilling their God-assigned responsibilities towards their children?

  18. . Could the CURSE for the turning of father’s hearts from their children be the emergence of rebellious generations, cultural disintegration and the widespread rejection, even persecution, of those that hold to the foundational principles of the Christian faith?

  19. . Are typical Christian fathers today alert and in tune with the role that God has ordained for them to play in the lives of their wives and children?

  20. . …Question

  21. . Is it alarmist, or is it merely connecting the dots to be concerned that a CURSEmay be ascending upon our land?

  22. . Would you agree that today, we are again in the need for the Lord to turn the hearts of the fathers toward their children… …which should result in the hearts of the children being turned to their fathers?

  23. . In order for the home to be what God intends for it to be … …to produce the kind of children that carry the work of the church into the next generation… … fathers must lead as God has instructed them to lead.

  24. . God has given headship of the home to the father, not to the wife… …the state …or the church. Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, - ESV

  25. . God never intended for the church to do the work of the family… …nor pastors / elders the work of the father.

  26. . Church and Home have a complimentarian dependence upon one another. ************************* Neither can fulfill the other’s role, but together they make discipleship whole.

  27. . But discipleship will only effectively occur if we intentionallyand accuratelypass the gospel of Jesus Christ on from one generation to the next. (keys)

  28. . Discipleship in our homes must be Intentional!

  29. . Deut 6:5-9  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. - ESV

  30. . Doesn’t it make sense that to effectively teach the Word… … we must first know the Word ourselves.

  31. . “If you cannot play the saxophone, you can’t teach your children to play the saxophone.” -Jerry Burd

  32. . God is calling us out! He is raising up a generation of fathers who will affectionately lead their children in the commandments of God.

  33. . “Lord… … may we experience the fulfillment of Malachi 4:6 in our Generation.”

  34. . We must reverse the contemporary western phenomenon of the disintegration of the family… …But, to do that we have to go against the grain… …we have to run into the wind… …we have to swim upstream…

  35. . Put another way… …we have to be courageous!

  36. . Our culture, the media, political correctness – these all elevate youth and rebellion… …they scoff parental authority… …diminish the wisdom of age… …mock every semblance of a biblical worldview… …and emasculate the role of the husband / father.

  37. . We must be courageous! …battling every nuance of the philosophies of men in the trenches of our homes. Rejecting the influences that would undermine the biblical influence of fatherhood or the nobility of motherhood.

  38. . We must realize that the only door to rebuilding the Christian home… …is to Rebuild Fatherhood!

  39. . Weak families make weak churches and weak societies… Strong families make strong churches and strong societies… And, of course, Don’t we all want strong families?

  40. . So, how do we make strong families?

  41. . ......by making strong fathers!

  42. . Check This Out! Scientists say they have not yet discovered perpetual motion…

  43. . But … Strong Fathers BUILD strong Families. Strong Families BUILD strong Churches. Strong Churches BUILD strong Fathers. Is this not… ….Spiritual Perpetual Motion?

  44. .

  45. . And Spiritual Perpetual Motion is what we must have in order to sustain the church… …from generation to generation… …until Christ returns!

  46. . But there has been a breakdown in the church…

  47. .

  48. . Fathers may have been being discipled to be good Christian…

  49. . But to disciple a father in every aspect of the faith except the discipling of his own wife and children… …is to teach a father to neglect the single-most important aspect of fatherhood.

  50. . Being equipped as to how best: …manage a household well… …be a loving and faithful husband… …effectively disciple one’s children… …These are areas in which the church can bring significant assistance to a man.

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