Culture Pt.2
Families and Community
Series Verse:
Romans 12:2 (ESV) – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV) – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Proverbs 22:6 (ESV) – Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
God created and desires to sustain family.
Matthew 19:14 (ESV) – but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
The Importance of the Families at Princeton Church
Why are families so important at PC?
How do you see us ministering to families?
Princeton Church is a community church
At PC, is community important, and why?
In what ways can you see a ministry to community?
Matthew 5:13–16 (ESV) – “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
The real church makes the world look hopeful and Christlike!