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Family Renewal

Family Renewal. Colossians 3:18-21. Renewal. “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” - Col. 3:1 (NASB-U) “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” - Col. 3:3 (NASB-U). Píáêáéíüù. Renewal.

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Family Renewal

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  1. Family Renewal Colossians 3:18-21

  2. Renewal • “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” -Col. 3:1 (NASB-U) • “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” - Col. 3:3 (NASB-U)

  3. Píáêáéíüù Renewal • Col. 3:10 (NASB-U) put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— • A Deep-Seated Change: • A New Identity • New-found Ability to Relate: • To God • To the Body of Christ • To the Family… 1 Tim. 1:5 (NASB-U) But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

  4. Family Renewal • Only a Snapshot: • Complexities exist outside this passage… • Applies to singles and without children. • Leave room for God’s Growth and Grace. • Get Up! “put on the new self who is being renewed” • Grasp God’s Power for Change on-going

  5. Col. 3:18-21 (NASB-U) • [18] Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. • [19] Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. • [20] Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. • [21] Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

  6. upotassesqe upotassw Family Renewal • Respect & Authority: • “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” Col. 3:18 (NASB-U) • Authority is necessary in a fallen world. • Submission does not mean inferiority: • “and be subjectto one another in the fear of Christ.” Ephes. 5:21 (NASB-U) • “…and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life so your prayers may not be hindered.” 1 Peter 3:7 (NASB-U)

  7. Family Renewal • Respect & Authority Means: • Listening to one another. • Receive Correction. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:24-25 (NASB-U)

  8. agape agape Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority Means: • Listening to one another. • Receive Correction. • Servanthood: • “Husbands, love your wives…” Col. 3:19 (NASB-U) • “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her”Ephes. 5:25 (NASB-U)

  9. Words • Tokens of Love • Working Alongside • Quality Time • (Understanding the other’s viewpoint) • Physical Affection

  10. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority Means: • Listening to one another. • Receive Correction. • Servanthood • WithoutBitterness: • “…and do not be embittered against them.” Col. 3:19 (NASB-U) Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 (NASB-U)

  11. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority Means: • Listening to one another. • Receive Correction. • Servanthood • Without Bitterness agape

  12. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children: • Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.Col. 3:20-21 (NASB-U)

  13. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children: • Make Them Feel Loved: • But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having so fond an affection for you… you had become very dear to us. 1 Thes. 2:7,8a (NASB-U)

  14. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children: • Make Them Feel Loved • …With Proper Discipline • You know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children 1 Thes. 2:11 (NASB-U) parakalew

  15. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children: • Make Them Feel Loved • …With Proper Discipline • Child-Centered, not Parent-Centered • Encouragement and Explanation: Rational • Not an External Focus: Attitudinal Change • Not Guilt-Motivated • Not While in Anger agape

  16. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children • With Christ at the Center • “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” -Col. 3:1 (NASB-U) • “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” - Col. 3:3 (NASB-U) • “Put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him.” -Col. 3:10 (NASB-U)

  17. Family Renewal • Respect & Loving Authority with Spouses • Respect & Loving Authority with Children • With Christ at the Center • Same for Singles: NOW is an Opportunity! • For the WholeFamily "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.” - Luke 9:24 (NASB-U)

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