Are you Christian at home?

James Byrd

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Are you Christian in...?

Welcome to FFM where we believe in equipping God’s people in the spirit of love by any means necessary!

Wisdom Vaccination: (This is to keep you from catching the fool.)

James 1:19-20 NIV

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

INTRO:

Have you ever known a home where everyone claims to be Christians, and they go to church, but they never really act like Christians the rest of the week?

This is how many youths are lost to society because they want nothing to do with the God that caused their parents to act the way they did in the home.

A Christian home is not a house with confessing Christian’s living in it.

A Christian home is a house that is occupied by people who live their lives upon the principles of Christ.

Here are some ways that Christians live in their home.

Biblical Love. (Agape over Phileo, Eros and Storge)

The Bible is the authority.

See all of society through the lens of scripture.

Train your children to have a Biblical World View.

Praise and Worship in the home.

Biblical and scriptural reminders around your home.

Christianity is mirrored in your family relationships.

You should never appear more Christian to the people outside your house than to the people inside your house.

1 Timothy 3 says it like this.

1 Timothy 3:12 NIV

A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well.

(Is this only for deacons or should we all live like this?)

If you as a parent live as a Christian in your home, you should be able to train, teach, discipline, and love your children in a way that they still honor and respect you.

What do you do if you’ve messed this dynamic up in the past?

You should do everything in your power to repair the relationships.

What is a Biblical Christian?

Biblical Christianity was a movement that saw many people following the teachings of Jesus from Nazareth.

Biblical Christianity was an entire way of life.

Biblical Christianity was obvious to others around you.

The name Christian was used to describe them because they were always talking about Christ.

Biblical Christians were men/women who listened to Jesus’ teachings of the Scriptures, observed his way of life, patterned their lives after his and had a mission to convert others wherever they would go.

So, today we will ask our 5 questions about Christianity as they relate to us in our homes.

Are you Christian at home?

1. Do you follow the teachings of Jesus in your home?

2. Is Christianity an entire way of life in your home?

3. Is your Christianity at home obvious to your family/neighbors?

4. Are you often talking about Christ in your home?

5. Is your mission at home to convert your family to follow Christ?

Do you follow the teachings of Jesus in your home?

2 Timothy 2:15 NIV

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

This series is not intended to bring condemnation to anyone based upon where it may challenge you in your life with Christ.

But if you are feeling self-condemned, the way out of that place is to simply do your best to present yourself to God as a child of his that is pleasing him.

One of the ways Paul says to do this, is to handle God’s word properly.

Is Christianity an entire way of life in your home?

*Do you read your Bible daily?

*Do you pray and communicate with God daily?

*Do you let Holy Spirit guide your life?

*Do you attend church regularly?

These are just a few seeds that you can plant into your life to be a Christian in your home.

Is your Christianity at home obvious to your family/neighbors?

Do you say things to your family at home that you would never say to people at church?

Do you let your anger and frustrations fly at home in a way that you wouldn’t at church?

It’s funny sometimes how God uses the closest of relationships to shine the spotlight on our true heart conditions.

But he only does this to help mold us into the image of his Son.

Ephesians 4:29 NKJV

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Are you often talking about Christ in your home?

Joshua 1:8 NIV

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Is your mission at home to convert your family to follow Christ?

When Paul and Silas were broken out of prison by an earthquake, we assume that was caused by the Lord, the prison guard/Philippian jailer became a follower of Christ. But not just him, he, and his entire family. Which means he had a level of influence on his family that caused them to follow Christ because he had chosen to follow Christ.

Mark 3:25 NIV

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Had he not had the honor and respect in his home, his family may have chosen to reject Christ.

What is Holy Spirit saying to you through this message?

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