As we continue our series on "Focus on the Family", today we will learn what it means to build a Godly family.
Psalm 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain…
Ephesians 5:21-6:4
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word,27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—30 for we are members of his body.31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c]32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2"Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3"that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” 4 Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Focus on the Family and its Significance
How do we build a godly family?
1. Establishing Foundation: Start right
2. Understanding Function: Know your place/role
3. Executing Operation: Arrange the environment
4. Collaborating Participation: Serve together