The document discusses the importance of families in spiritual and character development. It advises guiding older men and women to lives of wisdom, virtue, and service as examples to younger generations. Parents are encouraged to teach their children right from wrong so that they can find their way as adults. The overall message is that families play a key role in nurturing faith and maturity.

1. Families are one of God’s primary means
for us to mature and flourish

2. August 16, 2014

3. Interests
Sports
Finances
Parental
expectations
Work
Health
Friends
Church

4. Your job is to speak out on the things that make for
solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of
temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy
faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into
lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips
nor drunks, but models of goodness.

5. By looking at them, the younger women will know
how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous
and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We
don’t want anyone looking down on God’s Message
because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men
to live disciplined lives. But mostly, show them all this
by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching,
your words solid and sane. (Titus 2:1-7, The Message)

6. Liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons Truth-tellers, worthy of
respect, disciplined life

7. tell and show faith

8. Point your kids in
the right direction,
when they’re old
they won’t get lost.
(Proverbs 22:6, The Message)

9. Build, settle, plant, eat, marry, have children,
seek the peace and prosperity