Sermon Series: From Generation to Generation: Being a Disciple-making Church
Sermon Text: Psalm 128:1-6
Sermon Title: “The (Im)Perfect Family: Discipleship in the Home”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title SlideSLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: God’s Pathway of Discipleship … is the Blessed Way.We Should Practice this Pathway … for a Blessed Family.
But What About the Imperfect Family?
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: God’s Pathway of Discipleship … is the Blessed Way (v. 1)SLIDE 4 – Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 6 – Job 1:1 – “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.”SLIDE 7 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 8 – Genesis 6:8-9 – “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord … Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.”SLIDE 9 – 1 John 2:3-6 – “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says ‘I know him’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 11 – John 14:1-6 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? … And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said … ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way … no one comes to the Father except through me.’”
SLIDE 12 – Point 2: We Should Practice this Pathway … for a Blessed Family (vv. 2-6)SLIDE 13 – James Mays (1921-2015) – “Mortals work, but it is the blessing of God that … makes the labor satisfying. Mortals marry, but the birth and growth of children is the blessing of God.”SLIDE 14 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of SermonSLIDE 15 – Joshua 24:14-15 – “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served … beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”SLIDE 16 – A Promise: “There is a Payoff to Practice.”SLIDE 17 – Joshua 24:12-13 – “It was not by your sword or by your bow. I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built … You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.”
SLIDE 18 – Point 3: But What About an Imperfect Family? … A Broken Family?SLIDE 19 – There is no such thing as a Perfect Family.SLIDE 20 – Insert Copy of Point #3 of Sermon
SLIDE 21 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Family DiscipleshipSLIDE 22 – A Charge to our Men.SLIDE 23 – Fight for God’s Temporal Blessings for Your Family …SLIDE 24 – But Don’t Lose Sight of God’s Permanent Promises to All His Children.
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