2021-5-23, The Christian Home: Our Rooms

Introduction

Review

May is for families

What is a house?

God’s house

God’s house ways become our house ways.

The reward is our homes will be established and will endure.

Our family ways will influence the world.

Our family ways will go into the future.

Our homes can turn around today.

In this series, I want to point out several ways that the Lord’s house ways can shape our family ways.

I want to do this by visiting different rooms in our houses (figuritively, of course). These rooms are metaphors for different aspects of family life. As we visit each room we will look at some of the Lord’s ways which you can consider to apply to that area of your families life. My hope is that as your add His ways into the mix, you will find your home bigger and stronger in Him.

So far, the kitchen is the place of...

Gratitude- Thank you board & prayer

Family Connection- family dinner a priority, 4+ times each week

Hospitality- remember the empty chair

The family room reminds us of...

1. Remembering our family heritage and faith stories. Establishing new faith stories.

2. Family devotions

3. Worthy family leisure- Not too little, not too much, not contrary to family faith

The closet reminds us...

That our identity is in Christ, not in our possessions.

We are forgiven by Christ, yet we are being purged by the Holy Spirit.

to make personal prayer a major part of our homes

Our rooms remind us of our need for rest.

Rest is one of the key features to health.

Sleep knits the unraveled soul.

Discovering Selah and Sabbath

Action step- Make rooms consistent with rest. Avoid making your bed a place where you handle matters from work.

Consider keeping media.

Our rooms remind us of our need for privacy, sanctuary, and safety.

Children should not have social media devices in their bedrooms. It invites the pressures and hostilities of the outside world into a place that is supposed to be safe and quiet.

Our rooms remind us that our homes must be sexually pure and marriage is to be honored.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 ESV

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Hebrews 13:4 ESV

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.