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Family Reboot - Being Part of the Family of God
Introduction
A few weeks ago was Mother’s Day.
Before the introduction of Family Day as a statutory holiday, the idea of family Sunday was introduced on Mother’s Day.
It never really caught on.
Mother’s Day seemed to have worked its way into the Liturgical calendar.
However, when I think of Mother’s day, I think of family.
I think of the home family and the extended family.
I think of families with children, families without children, single parent families and blended families.
We need family because none of us were created to live alone.
Right from the very beginning of the Bible, we get a clear picture that one truly is the loneliest number.
God said that it is not good for us to be alone.
We are created in God’s image and this means that we need to be in community - community with God and in community with each other.
In order to experience the fullness of life God intended for us, we need to live in community.
We call this community, the family of God.
It is within this family that we as Christians learn what it means to truly belong.
and in which we learn how to build our home families in which each member learns, experiences and live out the kind of family God wants for all.
As the family of God, we don’t often stop long enough to ask ourselves, “What is it that holds us together as the family of God.
We often find ourselves building committees and programs and not building the kind of family God intended, both within the local community of faith and the Christian home family.
And so today I want us to do a family reboot.
We have all experienced what happens when our computers, tablets or cell phones start to act weird.
The first thing a technician tells us to do is to reboot the computer.
A reboot puts everything back to the default settings.
This is what we are going to do today - reboot our understanding of the family of God and go back to the default settings.
What does it mean to be part of the family of God?
What are the default settings?
F - FORGIVENESS
The first default setting would be forgiveness.
Sin means broken relationship.
When Adam and Eve sinned, by their disobeying God, they broke their relationship with Him.
There was no way that they could fix it.
Everything after is God seeking to repair his relationship with us.
Jesus’ death and resurrection is God’s final example of how far he was willing to go to renew his intimate relationship with us.
We in the family of God need to know that by receiving Jesus as Lord we are forgiven.
But here is the problem we cannot completely experience the fulness of that forgiveness if we are unwilling to forgive.
I don’t know if you have seen the inside of a sink drainpipe that is clogged.
It is really sickening to see.
All the gunk that accumulates clogs the free flow of water through the drain.
This is exactly what happens in families - church or home when we fail to forgive.
Our relationships get clogged.
There is another reason God wants forgiveness to be a default setting in the church and Christian home family.
When we resent or hold a grudge against someone it literally affects us physically, mentally and spiritually.
It clogs up our whole being.
It can actually cause health problems.
It damages our relationship with God.
And here’s the real kicker - it usually doesn’t affect the person we refuse to forgive.
They get on with their life and we end up tied in a knot.
NASB95
We need family because none of us were created to live alone.
Right from the very beginning of the Bible, we get a clear picture that one truly is the loneliest number.
God said that it is not Good for us to be alone.
Created in God’s image means that we need to be in community - community with God and in community with each other.
In order to experience the fullness of life God intended for us, we need to live in community.
We call this community, the family of God.
It is within this family that we as Christians learn what it means to truly belong.
and in which we learn how to build the home family in which each member learns, experiences and live out the kind of family God wants for all.
As the family of God, we don’t often stop long enough to ask ourselves, “What is it that holds us together as the family of God.
We often find ourselves building committees and programs and not building the kind of family God intended, both within the local community of faith and the Christian home family.
And so today I want us to do a family reboot.
We have all experienced what happens when our computers, tablets or cell phones start to act weird.
The first thing a technician tells us is to reboot the computer.
A reboot puts everything back to the default settings.
This is what we are going to do today - reboot our understanding of the family of God and go back to the default settings.
F - FORGIVENESS
The first default setting would be forgiveness.
Sin means broken relationship.
When Adam and Eve sinned, by their disobeying God, they broke their relationship with Him.
There was no way that they could fix it.
Everything after is God seeking to repair his relationship with us.
Jesus’ death and resurrection is God’s final example of how far he was willing to go to renew his intimate relationship with us.
We in the family of God need to know that by receiving Jesus as Lord we are forgiven.
But here is the problem we cannot completely experience the fulness of that forgiveness if we are unwilling to forgive.
Do you remember the Lord’s prayer?
I don’t know if you have seen the inside of a sink drainpipe that is clogged.
It is really sickening to see.
All the gunk that accumulates clogs the free flow of water through the drain.
This is exactly what happens in families - church or home when we fail to forgive.
Our relationships get clogged.
I don’t know if you have seen the inside of a sink drainpipe that is clogged.
It is really sickening to see.
All the gunk that accumulates clogs the free flow of water through the drain.
This is exactly what happens in families - church or home when we fail to forgive.
Our relationships get clogged.
There is another reason God wants forgiveness to be a default setting in the church and Christian home family.
When we resent or hold a grudge against someone it literally affects us physically, mentally and spiritually.
It clogs up our whole being.
It can actually cause health problems.
It damages our relationship with God.
And here’s the real kicker - it usually doesn’t affect the person we refuse to forgive.
They get on with their life and we end up tied in a knot.
NASB95
32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
A - Always remember who we are.
We are to forgive and the second default setting is to always remember who we are.
Wherever we are, we need to remember - We are Kings Kids.
God has adopted us back into his family.
We are brothers and sisters.
We are family, God’s family!
NASB95
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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