Ordering Your World Series Outline

Ordering your Relationship with God

Your relationship with God is foundational to all of life - Love the Lord your God

Seek to know God through the reading and study of Scripture

Communicate regularly and honestly with God

Maintain your relationship with confession & forgiveness

Ordering your relationships with others

Loving others is the most frequent command towards our relationships with others

Love of others is to be the identifying feature of believers

Loving others requires spending time with others

Ordering your Marriage

God’s establishment of marriage - one man, one woman, exclusively, for a lifetime

The cycle of love and respect

Ordering Your Parenting

Session One: Parenting Priorities

A Heart for God

The parenting fence - practice for life with safety

The importance of respect - God, parents, authorities

Listening and Talking with your children

Daily times to just talk and listen (mealtime, after school, bedtime)

Regular family meetings

Session Two: Training you Child

Actions have consequences

Wise choices take practice - Teaching wisdom

Problem solving takes practice - Owning your decisions

Need to stimulate thinking

Session Three: Tools for Parenting

The value of chores

Provides a sense of participation and responsibility

Battles entitlement

Chore jar - Consequences

Family meeting

Setting chore responsibilities

Discussing schedules

Raising issues

Talk Later

Distinguish immaturity from defiance

Ordering your Finances

The Principle of God’s Provision

The Principle of Discipline

The Four basic problems

Income

Spending

Debt

Preparedness

Ordering your Time