INTRODUCTION

Home is not a house. It is a structure. Every Christian

has the mandate to build a home not a house. House is
aphysical and collapsible edifice. It consumes human
effort to build and later enhances pride for self.
Whilehome is intangible but impacting. It has
structures that is founded on God and it is built daily
with His guidanceto become a model for others. God
specifically seeks for home in Malachi 2:15,
“Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit
they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking
godly offspring. So guard yourselfin your spirit, and do
not break faith with the wife of your youth”.
Home is God’s embassy on earth.
 Like aMaster-plan of Tabernacle to Moses, so also the
home to the world through practicing Christians. Home
is also like a guest house for God while sojourning on
earth.
Icebreaking Questions:
1. Is your marriage and family a home or house?
2. Can God make your home a specimen for coming
generation?
DEFINITION OF TERMS

 Ideal:
 Perfect, unadulterated, model, best, epitome, etc.
What it is expected under a normalcircumstance. The
appropriate structure to follow. The real shape of a
project.
Christian:
A person who has signed death warrant with the cause
of the cross. It is a person who givesall to Christ to
receive a bit per day in order to become all that will
please the Father. The one who livesand represents
Christ in all seasons - inconvenience, comfort, for
better for worst, etc.
Home:
 For this teaching, is seen as the composition of father
and mother with children (if any) livingin harmony and
love. Home is synonymous to comfortable destination
where rest is appreciable. It isa picture that portrays
father and mother who know their roles and the
children who show positiveend result. Home is used
for blissful family, especially, a Christian household. It
is usually used when a
child behaves well, it is said “He/she comes from good
home”.
 IN THE BEGINNING Surprisingly, what we need is
not a fresh perspective about home. What we need is a
reminder of the intent ofGod for marriage and the
roles within this covenant; we need the ancient
scriptures to guide us and persuadeus once more that
there lies the secret to a sacred marriage and home.
Let’s think together about the Christianhome. Home
starts with marriage union. Marriage was God’s idea.
Marriage is the only institution that has
come down to us from the other side of the fall of man
in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:21-25). God ordained
marriage before sin entered the world and intended
for it to be the fullest, richest and most joyous life
onplanet earth. If it fails in being this,the fault is not
in the institution itself but in those who enter into it
carelesslyand fail to fulfill its conditions. In fact,
marriage is so important to God’s plan that He makes a
comparison inthe book of Ephesians between marriage
and the Church. “The husband is the head of the wife,
even as Christ is the head of the Church; and He is the
Saviour of the body.The Church should be a reflection
of the home,and the home should be a reflection of the
Church.
SOCIETY AND HOME
Now, this home supposes to be the fountain-head of
our society. No nation can rise higher than the average
home, and that’s why we’re in the condition we’re in
today: the trouble is in the fountain-head of our
society.

There are Four Great Cornerstones to our Christian

civilization:
The Home, The School, The Church, and The
Government. If they all would function properly, we
would have a wonderful place to live in. But the Home is
evidently the most important of these four, and I want
to talk to you this day about what it takes to make an
ideal home.
 I wonder, if there are any ideal homes represented in
this audience today. I know someone will
say “Yes”. Then it should be yours and if not, it is not
too late.
 IDEALNESS OF A CHRISTIAN HOME
It supposes to be a place
1. Where Bible is taught and followed.
2. Where father plays his roles without motivation or
coercion.
3. Where mother is called blessed.
4. Where godly characters and virtues are reflecting
daily on the children.
5. Where peace keeps her permanent habitation when
troubles like sea even billow.
6. Where strangers love to stay.
7. Where church is born.
8. Where first love is ever crystal and deeply
imprinted on the heart of the couple.
9. Where God showcases His model (specimen of
heaven on earth) to the world.
10. A home where fight, conflict,
misunderstanding and quarrel do not sleep
 over.This is the ideal Christian home but
circumstances and societal influences have
reformed the ideal with substitute/substandard
homes that psychological input, economy drive,
western culture and uncared attitude have
successfully restructured.
They are:
 Contract marriage
 Broken homes without remorse.
 Polygamy/Bigamy
 Social marriage as celebrity
 Single parenthood
 Cohabitation without dowry
 Irresponsible couple
 Wife beater and husband accuser, etc.
 Isaiah prophetic type of home“In that day
seven women will take hold of one man and say,
“We will eat our own food and provide our own
clothes; only let us becalled by your name.
Take away our disgrace!” (Isaiah 4:1)
 WHY AN IDEAL CHRISTIAN HOME?
 Growing sickness-free family
 Hypertension, diabetes, and sexually diseases will
fade away.
 Developing nations from home
 Obedient and non-corrupt children will be raised.
 Recruiting more force for Great Commission
 Mission-minded one will be recruited for God’ use.
 Exhibiting heaven on earth -The couples play up
the love of Christ and the obedience of
the church.
 Building capacity for God’s word-The teaching in
the Bible becomes infallible and impacting through
yourfamily as specimen of its effectiveness.
 Raising home for homeless-Ideal home will be a
comfortable abode for friends, relatives and
strangers wholove to come around you in order to
learn God’s standard of home-making.

IDEAL COMPOSITION OF A CHRISTIAN HOME

Home has four actors. The composition is
interrelated though having diverse roles. It involves
God (the Author), man(father), woman (mother) and
children (if any). It is like a triangle with
three angles that connect to one another. The
distance of one side will equally affect the other
side. Therefore the effectiveness of actors
determines the idealness of the home as Christians.