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The Transformation of Family.

Matthew 12:46–50 ESV

46 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

NUCLEAR FAMILY IS AN INDUSTRIAL INVENTION.

New Dictionary of Biblical Theology The OT

Contemporary western understandings of ‘family’ derive from the Enlightenment, and no single Hebrew term directly corresponds to this. Three terms denote social groups of various sorts: ševet (conventionally translated as ‘tribe’) denotes ethnic origins; bêt ’ab and mišpaḥâ can both be translated as ‘family’, though generally they have wider connotations than the English term. Bêt ab can mean 1. a nuclear family consisting of parents and their children, living together in the same home (*e.g. Gen. 50:7–8); 2. a wider grouping, consisting of one or two generations of close relatives (*e.g. Gen. 7:1; 14:14); 3. relatives more generally (*e.g. Gen. 24:38; 1 Kgs. 12:19; Is. 5:7). Mišpaḥâ usually refers to a wide group of relatives, and for that reason is sometimes translated as ‘clan’, often with a territorial as well as a relational significance (*e.g. Num. 27:8–11; Judg. 18:11).

New Dictionary of Biblical Theology The OT

The family was held together by the traditional concerns common to all cultures prior to the emergence of the nuclear industrial family; providing employment, together with education and socialization for children, and a religious identity for all (Exod. 10:2; 12:26; 13:8; Deut. 4:9; 6:7; 32:7; Prov. 1:8; 6:20).

OIKOSN — HOUSEHOLD

How Jesus Made us Family

Ephesians 2:13–19 ESV

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

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Acts 2:42–47 ESV

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

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We feel wholes. If daddy, or mommy, or sister, uncle, or grandmother. Whether we were separated by death or division, strife, or whatever we feel it and was that how God wanted it to be. We have units of family, but we are always desiring more.

However the story of Jesus is the story of how he Transforms the family. How he takes a broken family and makes a family that will last forever.

(1) Single people aren’t imperfect needing to start a family. In Christ they are part of a family. Get connected!

(2) Married people don’t have to feel like all the answers are found in their cluster of people they have an oikos that they can go to. Get connected!

(3) You don’t ever have to wo