Family Togetherness is Vital
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Luke Sparks
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Luke Sparks
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Family
Togetherness is
Vital
A Strong Family:
1st: Gratitude is Spoken Here
2nd: Serious Communication is Routine
3rd: Family Togetherness is Imperative
Families Whose Schedules:
Over Committed?
Old Testament expectation
of Teachable Moments
between Parents and
Children
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
The Shema
(Hebrew: Hear)
Imperative Mood Command
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NIV
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our
God, the Lord is
one. Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your
strength. These commandments
that I give you today are to be
on your hearts. Impress them
on your children.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NIV
Talk about them when you sit
at home and when you walk
along the road, when you lie
down and when you get up. Tie
them as symbols on your hands
and bind them on your
foreheads. rite them on the
doorframes of your houses and
on your gates.
What are
Parents told to
Do?
Parents Teach Children
1st: Love God with all your
heart, soul, and strength.
Parents Teach Children
1st: Love God with all your
heart, soul, and strength.
2nd: Put commandments of
God on your hearts.
Parents Teach Children
1st: Love God with all your
heart, soul, and strength.
2nd: Put commandments of
God on your hearts.
3rd: Impress your Children
with Commandments.
Teach Children Four Times:
Daily!
Teach Children Four Times:
1. When you sit in your house!
Teach Children Four Times:
1. When you sit in your house!
2. When you walk on the road!
Teach Children Four Times:
1. When you sit in your house!
2. When you walk on the road!
3. When you lie down at
night!
Teach Children Four Times:
1. When you sit in your house!
2. When you walk on the road!
3. When you lie down at
night!
4. When you get up to go
work!
Plan Your Vacations
Plan on GOING
TO Heaven …
Many families Find it
hard to carve out
quality time Together!
Work of Spending Time Together
Mark 6:31-33 NIV
Because so many people were
coming and going that they
(apostles) did not even have a
chance to eat. Jesus said to
them, “Come with me by
yourselves to a quiet place and
get some rest.” So they went away
by themselves in a boat to a
Royce Money:
Prioritizing Family Togetherness:
My hope along the way is that I
may win the war for my family’s
being together. The victory for me
will be a wife and 3 daughters who
feel that I love them enough to put
time with them above ALL other
human relations.
Unfortunately, evaluating my
It would be nice to decide
priorities now and forever, but it
just doesn’t work that way. Often,
I must sit down and list
everything I have to do, where I
spend my time, what is really
important. One particular concern
is the quality of time spent with
my daughters. I am aware of the
danger of “making an idol out of
Too much family attention to the
exclusion of OTHER relationships
is not Christ-like. But turning
against your family is not what
Jesus taught. Jesus never called
people to deny family; rather he
taught “denying materialism,”
“denying prominence,” and
“denying selfishness.”
If Christianity does
not work in the
home, where does
it work?
Your Family is
Sacred to God!
Develop A Family Philosophy
of Leisure and Togetherness
Be prepared for
RESISTENCE
“Slow down and
live”
The Family that tries to
“do everything possible”
will burn out!
The Key to making time
for Your Family’s
Togetherness:
BALANCE!
Tug of
Togetherness
Tug of Separateness