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The. M. arks of. F. the. amily. 3 Features of Healthy Families. 1. Constructed. “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain...” (Psalm 127:1, NRSV ). 3 Features of Healthy Families. 1. Constructed.

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  1. The M arks of F the amily

  2. 3 Features of Healthy Families 1. Constructed “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain...” (Psalm 127:1, NRSV)

  3. 3 Features of Healthy Families 1. Constructed “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.” (Matt 7: 24-25, NRSV)

  4. “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

  5. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.” (James 4:13–16, NRSV)

  6. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (MT 6:19–21, NRSV)

  7. 3 Features of Healthy Families 1. Constructed Important Truth: Your heart follows your treasure.

  8. 3 Features of Healthy Families 2. Committed

  9. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3 Categories of Commitment • Communicating • Faithfulness • Forgiveness

  10. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3 Categories of Commitment Important Truth: Healthy family relationships are characterized by forgiveness.

  11. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3. Cultivating

  12. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3 Keys for a Cultivating Family • Shared Time • Biblical Instruction

  13. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3 Keys for a Cultivating Family Important Truth: Biblical concepts are best understood in the context of everyday life.

  14. 3 Features of Healthy Families 3 Keys for a Cultivating Family • Shared Time • Biblical Instruction • Loving Correction

  15. The M arks of F the amily

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