1. Being a Christian in your family

2. Being joined to Jesus transforms your family role

i. Tenderness

ii. Discipline

iii. Instruction

1. Be involved in verbally instructing our children (keep talking to them).

2. Regularly leading them in family devotions and prayer (minister to the family).

3. Monitor and take responsibility for the input that enters their impressionable

minds.

4. Taking responsibility to help assure that church is a meaningful experience.

5. Be an example. We must make sure that the open book of our lives—our

example—demonstrates the reality of our instruction, for in watching us they

will learn the most.

3. Being a family that shares and serves Jesus