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Going Deeper
What are some of the challenges a nuclear family has when they don’t have a support system around them?
Genesis 2:20-24 lays out God’s original design for a family. How does deviating from this design hurt a society?
Read the story of the jailer who led his whole household to Jesus in Acts 16:16-34. What does this teach about the benefits of God’s design?
What kind of support can the church provide to help families be strong today?
Teaching Notes
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family is God’s vision.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:20-24
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Genesis 1:28
The problem today is not with the original design but with the removal of support.
God never intended the nuclear family to go it alone
Old Testament – Bayit – Household
Nuclear
Extended
Tribe
Israel
New Testament – Oikos – Household
When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.
Acts 16:15
Westside’s Focus
Symbol 1 – Who are we? – We are God’s Family…
Symbol 2 – Why do we exist? - …loving Jesus, becoming like Jesus, sharing Jesus…
Symbol 3 – What are we trusting God for? - …to raise up Christ-centered families…
Symbol 4 – Where? - …in our city and beyond…
Symbol 5 – How will we get there? - …by wrapping God family around your family.
What is a Christ-centered family?
A House where Christ at the center
A House that is living out the mission of loving Jesus, becoming like Jesus, sharing Jesus
Sunday Set List
The Lion and The Lamb- Leeland
Hallelujah Rising- Mitch Langley Music
King Of My Heart- Bethel Music
The Blessing- Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes
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