Family Man Badge #1-4

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 And the man said: This one, at last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called “woman,” for she was taken from man. 24 This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

B. How does marriage reflect the triune nature of God?

The doctrine of the Trinity, which Jesus endorsed and Scripture teaches, also profoundly affects Christian marriage. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live in a permanent, plural, equal, complementary, ordered, and loving union. And since we’re created like God, we thrive in marriage relationships that mirror his trinitarian union.

Since God is permanent, he designed us for lasting marriages, not divorce.

Since God is triune, he designed us for marriages of intimate companionship to counteract loneliness.

Since God is three equal persons, he designed us for marriages in which husbands and wives are equally dignified.

Since God is diverse and complementary, he created marriage to be diverse and wonderfully complementary within a heterosexual union, not a homosexual union.

Since God’s Trinity is ordered (the Son and the Spirit gladly submitting to the Father), he designed all human relationships—including marriage—with authority to be exercised lovingly and submission to be given willingly without any implication of superiority or inferiority.

C. How is marriage a picture of God’s love for his people?

Ephesians 5:22–33 CSB

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of his body. 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

D. In Ephesians 5:25 How is the relationship between Christ and the church similar to the relationship between a husband and wife?

Ephesians 5:25 CSB

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

E. Having read Genesis 2:18-24, read Revelation 21:9 and explain how the Bible both begins and ends with marriage?

Revelation 21:9 CSB

9 Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

#3 Husbands and Fathers

a. List some ways that God has designed men and women differently.

b. explain how fathers and mothers bring different strengths that help raise children in a family.

c. Read 2 Thes. 3:6-12 and I tim. 5:8. Explain the importance of hard work and the duty of being a provider as it applies to a man who is a husband and father.

2 Thessalonians 3:6–12 CSB

6 Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you should imitate us: We were not idle among you; 8 we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and toiled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us. 10 In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.” 11 For we hear that there are some among you who are idle. They are not busy but busybodies. 12 Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and provide for themselves.

1 Timothy 5:8 CSB

8 But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

#4 Family, Society & Church

a. Why are families important to a strong society?

b. What are some of the problems that come from families breaking down?

c. Explain how christians and churches can help become a “father to the fatherless” for families that experience death, divorce, or abandonment involving a father.

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