When Reading your Bible Read Thoughtfully Read Repeatedly Read Patiently Read Prayerfully (errad) acronym

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2 When Reading your Bible Read Thoughtfully Read Repeatedly Read Patiently Read Prayerfully (errad) acronym

3 Generating Life or Stagnating

4 Stages of Life: adaption from Erickson s Eight Stage Theory Infancy 0-2 years: Trust vs Mistrust... Hope, Will Childhood 3-12 years: Autonomy, Shame, Initiative vs Guilt... Purpose and Competence Adolescence years: Identity vs Confusion... Faithfulness Young Adult years: intimacy vs Isolation Love Middle Age years: Generativity vs Stagnation... Care Senior Years 65 years: Integrity vs Despair... Wisdom

5 The Physical is a metaphor for the Spiritual

6 Ephesians 6:1-4 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 so 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.

7 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

8 Infancy is a stage not a state Are you maturing or are you just getting older?

9 Ephesians 6:1-4 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 so 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.

10 Who s your Daddy?

11 Mat 23: 8-12 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all you are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be you called masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

12 Hebrews 12: 5-6 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son."

13 Hebrews 12: 7-8 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined and everyone undergoes discipline then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

14 Hebrews 12: 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

15 God is called Our Father He is called the Father of... a) of the stars and planets, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector 1) of spiritual beings and of all men

16 God is called Our Father He is called the Father of... c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

17 We all need Fathers and Mothers in the Faith

18 1Corinthians 4:14-17 (Lecturing like a teacher or Nurturing Like a Father) I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. Even if you had ten thousand guardians (instructors) in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

19 1Corinthians 4:14-17 Therefore I urge you to imitate me. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church. Urge : to call to one s side, comfort encourage, console

20 What s the Training process. Parents Model... Children Imitate The training content is not what you say but what you do.

21 Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train up a child. Chanak: put something into the mouth, to give to be tasted.... training according to habits and manners. Your Behaviour puts a taste in their mouth:

22 What do we present to our children as a model? Who are our Children s Heroes? Do we expose them to Worldly models and expect Godly outcomes? Who s putting the taste in their mouth?

23 Philippians 3:17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. Ephesians 5:1 Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 Thessalonians 3:9 We did this,(working with their hands) not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. Hebrews 13:7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

24 Exodus 20:5 (Bad Modelling) You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, visiting: to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for

25 God Our Father is Building a Spiritual Household We have Choices in Spiritual Parenting: To model for the Next generation: Generating Life Or to remain self centred and stagnate. The mid Life Crisis deception...

26 Generating Life or Stagnation Nothing allowed in and nothing going out

27 The River of God! Psalm 46: 4-5 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.