Couples for Christ

COVENANT ORIENTATION

Talk No. 3:
What Type of Family Do
You Have?
 CFC is a Christian Family Life
Renewal Ministry

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 The Family is the basic unit of Society:
The condition of individual families will determine
the condition of society as a whole.
 Understand better the meaning of our
commitment to our spouse in marriage..

Commitment and service

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 Bible Verse

Mt. 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are
weary and burdened, and I will give
you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you
and learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart, and you will
find rest for your souls. 30 For my
yoke is easy and my burden is
light.”
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Mt. 5:44-48
44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for
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sends rain on the righteous and the
unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you,
what reward will you get? Are not even the tax
collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only
your own people, what are you doing more
than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be
perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is
perfect..
Make the home a center of family
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Develop Christian peer environments for young
people.

We should strive to get

our children into our Age-peer
family ministries environments are
 They will develop important.
strong
supportive
relationships with  Peer groups are a
their own peers powerful force in
the lives of
 We will have a real
young people
alternative to the often
intensely secular peer
environments that are not  We do not seek to
Christian in orientation. avoid these, but
to redirect them
 They will be tied
intimately into the life of
the larger body (CFC).
 Become pastors of our children.

Parents The ultimate

goal of raising
must work and training
actively our children is
to train not to make
them what we
and form want them to
their be, but to help
children in them fulfill
their God-given
Christian destiny
faith and
character
 Bible Verse
Deut 6:20-25
20In the future, when your son asks you, “What is the
meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD
our God has commanded you?” 21 tell him: “We were
slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us
out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 Before our
the LORD sent signs and wonders—great eyesand terrible—on
Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. 23 But he
brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the
land he promised on oath to our
ancestors. The LORD commanded us to obey all these
24

decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might

always prosper and be kept alive, as is the
case
today.
the 25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before
LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be
our righteousness.” .
.
 What is that
Goal?

Imbued with
Our goal is to
Christian ideals
train them for and
values
life
We should give
them our
Christian
heritage.
Deut 6:20-25

Prayer is essential
Personal as well as
family prayer
 Conclusio
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Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio: "The
future of humanity passes by way of the family"

We need to strengthen Christian family life, in

order to defend God's creation, and to renew the
face of the earth
Thank you and God Bless!