How is a community of Yeshua's disciples like a family? Part 1 of 3. Losing family members for Yeshua and his message's sake and gaining a hundred times as many in this world. Yeshua uses the familial relationship to describe his relationship with us and ours with each other. Cranked Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Prince Albert Saskatchewan and the family attraction. Increasing urbanization and decrease of family relationships. Analogies for the ekklesia include the human body, the field, the building, the temple, and the family. Family most frequently used analogy. Called brothers 160 times in the New Testament and 130 times in the Pauline Epistles. If we don't understand how we're family, we'll either function as a corporation, or a dysfunctional family. Excerpt from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola. Family composed of father, mother, children. 12 relationships or lines of communication in family of four, 166 in family of 13 or Yeshua and his inner circle of talmidim. God's the Dad in this family, the Abba. He makes us siblings. Fatherhood and motherhood are both God's image. Yeshua's the older brother and he's proud of you. What do families do? Eat together. Excerpt from the House Church Book by Wolfgang Simson, meating together. Spend time together. Litmus test of your love for each other, do you spend time together? Show each other affection. Izzy's British and Russian sides of the family. Western equivalent of the holy kiss, the holy hug. Demonstrations on how to hug and how not to hug. Share work and resources together. Chores, hand me downs, the car. Care for each other. Babysitting, helping when sick, doing yard work, fixing stuff.