Family Functions

1. It’s all about the kids…all about the grandkids and then the great grandkids.

2. The adults know all too well that it actually takes planning, energy and resources to make it all happen.

3. As our kids see us taking the time and energy and putting in the work that’s necessary to create memories “Make Family Function Well” they start to move from Recipient to Participant .

4. Grandparents oversee all the activities, they are still contributing and serving to be sure…just in different ways. Grandparents/Seasoned Saints…really understand the value of being together, everybody getting along and the joy of seeing generations growing up as a family.

The Bible/Family and Function

1. Placed in a Family

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:1-10 (NIV)

2. Given Spiritual Gifts

7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” 9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,

Ephesians 4:7-11 (NIV)

3. Generational Impact

12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Ephesians 4:12-16 (NIV)

Bigs-Middles-Littles

Little – Eat/Make a Mess | Examples: Parker-Usher-Greeter

Middle – Take care of the Littles | Examples: Children Ministry-Student Ministry-Outreach
Big – Take care of the Middles | Examples: Life Group Leader-Community Leaders

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