This document discusses the importance of redeeming families through the work of God in their lives and relationships. It emphasizes that healthy families are marked by parents serving out of family strength rather than sacrificing their family. The document urges key pursuits of spirit-empowered living and being rooted in Christ's love to have relationships marked by love, peace, and unity through the church equipping families. It reflects on how the church and home can support each other.

1. Church & Home: Redeeming the
Family
(Ephesians 3:14- 4:13)

2. A Wholesome Family in Jesus
Christ is a family marked by the
redemptive work of God in their
lives and relationships with one
another.

3. Growth Indicators
• Perfect vs Redeemed Families
• Parents sacrificing family to serve vs Parents
serving out of the overflow of family strength
• Churchy children vs Children who know how
to come back to the heart of the Father

4. Are we helping the church to
become the #1 enemy of the
home?

5. Key Prayer Pursuits
• Spirit-empowered Christ centered being (Eph.
3:16-17)
• Filled with God being rooted and established
in the love of Christ (Eph. 3:17-19)

6. Key Prayer Outcomes
• Live worthy of your calling (Eph. 4:1) – your
starting point
– Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders
labor in vain. (Ps. 127:1)
– Walk closely with the Heart Specialist (Prov. 21:1)

7. Look to the Heart Specialist
• Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring
your children from the east and gather you
from the west. (Isaiah 43:5)
• But this is what the LORD says: "Yes, captives
will be taken from warriors, and plunder
retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with
those who contend with you, and your
children I will save. (Isaiah 49:25)

8. Look to the Heart Specialist
• This is what the LORD says: "Restrain your
voice from weeping and your eyes from tears,
for your work will be rewarded,“ declares the
LORD. "They will return from the land of the
enemy. So there is hope for your future,"
declares the LORD. "Your children will return
to their own land. (Jeremiah 31:16-17)

9. Look to the Heart Specialist
• Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears
the LORD, who finds great delight in his
commands. His children will be mighty in the
land; the generation of the upright will be
blessed. (Psalm 112:1-2)

10. Key Prayer Outcomes
• Relationships marked by love (Eph. 4:2) – your
biological and faith families
– Basic motivation for repentance (Rom. 2:4)

11. Key Prayer Outcomes
• Families that are united in Spirit through
peace (Eph. 4:3) – your interpersonal
relationships in your families
– Standard of forgiveness (Eph. 4:32)

12. Church-Home Synergy
• So Christ himself gave the apostles, the
prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and
teachers, to equip his people for works of
service, so that the body of Christ may be built
up 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. (Eph. 4:11-13)

13. Church-Home Synergy
Church centered –
Home supported
Home centered –
Church supported
©Copyright Ben Freudenburg (Family Friendly Church). Used with permission.

14. Equipping
• Faith Formation
• Marriage Ministry
• Parenting Education
• Non-nuclear Families
• Adulthood & Aging
• Singlehood
• Human Sexuality
• Grandparenting

15. Reflection
• Is there something that the church needs to
pursue more intentionally in strengthening
the homes?
• Is there something that the church needs to
do differently for the strengthening of the
homes?

16. Reflection
• To what extent are you intentionally pursuing
the strengthening of the relationships that
God has called you to in your home and the
faith family?
• Is there some groundwork to be done in terms
of redemption and reconciliation?