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6 Chapter Teaching Family Matters
6 Chapter Teaching Family Matters
Objectives
1. To understand the essential role of SFC members as instruments in unifying the family.
2. To understand the importance of living in a family that is united with love, respect, and
confidence with one another.
Dynamics
1. Registration
2. Worship
3. Teaching of Songs
4. Talk Proper
5. Closing Prayer
Speaker’s Profile
1. The speaker (can be a FTW, SFC Couple Coordinator, or CFC leader) who has experienced
a storm in the family and has been instrument to keep his family united in the midst of it.
2. The sharer (SFC leader), who may be experiencing storms but sees to it that he/she is
putting faith, hope, and love in his/her family.
Anchor Verse
“By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his
family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heirs of righteousness that comes by
faith.” (Hebrew 11:17)
IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM
SFC Chapter Assembly Teaching for September (Family Month)
“By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his
faith he condemned the world and became heirs of righteousness that comes by faith.” (Hebrew 11:17)
I. Introduction
Since God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, the family has been
the basic unit of society – a father, a mother and children are God’s plan for a family. Because of
the importance God has placed in the family, it is constantly under attack by the devil. This is why
we have family problems, age gaps, disagreements or broken families.
As SFC, our role is to keep our family united in God, especially during times that our families are
tested. Noah kept his family safe and united by building an ark in preparation for a great storm.
Let us learn how we can be “Noah’s” of our own family by striving to build an ark of love, faith,
and hope in the midst of the storms in our lives.
Our families today are subject to a lot of things. Although we do not realize it, our families are
slowly being brought to the midst of a great storm. Storms that can hurt, inflict pain, cause
division among family members.
Even though we feel that our families can be drowned in the midst of these storms, God gives us
the grace and the ability to save our own family from sinking. Just like how He instructed Noah,
He is also instructing us to make an ark that will save our family. The storms, if handled properly
can make the family stronger and more united.
God is asking us to build an ark of faith and influence our whole family to place our trust
in God and His promise. With faith and Christ‘s presence in the home, our Biblical
response to crisis should include family prayer time, perhaps fasting always and
attendance at worship to give praise to God.
As SFC we need to respect and honor our parents for keeping goals for the family to grow
in a loving relationship with one another. At the same time, we are called to inspire and
help set spiritual goals within the family as well.
We should:
Accept whatever happens, the good and the bad and keep on loving still.
Accept that you have your own responsibilities within the family.
Accept that storms are part of our lives. We need to put our trust and faith in
the Lord that He will deliver us through it.
IV. Conclusion
God has told us that another disaster awaits this world, our family may not be spared
from this, and you need to be prepared like Noah prepared for the flood. We must always
invest on love and unity in our families so that when storm comes, we are strong and we
are intact.
As SFC, we need to realize that no matter what, our families will always be God’s gift to
us. We always need to be an instrument of love, joy, peace and unity in our homes.
Our family is God’s gift to us. This is part of our covenant. Our family is our covenant.
The love of the Lord should not end in us. It must be shared most especially to our
family. This is also our way of living both the vision of SFC and CFC. Our families are
included in the every single man and woman who should experience Christ. And in turn,
leads to Families in the Holy Spirit renewing the face of the earth.
If we do this, God is pleased, because, if there is love, joy, peace and unity in our families,
God is there.
Guide Questions:
(outline is based in the CFC YFC Manual. This has been revised to tailor-fit the SFC members)