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UnitE YOur Church & Family in the Great Commission
Discover God’s shared mission for your family and church to spread the Gospel.
Build a Vibrant Family Ministry for Your Church
Family ministry is not simply helpful or beneficial, but necessary and essential to the work of the local church. God has created two fundamental institutions to advance His Gospel and build His Kingdom in the world—the church and the family. At the heart of this movement is uniting the church and the family in the Great Commission.
Born out of Deuteronomy 6:5-7, Family Worship is an intentional plan to help our children follow Jesus and love God with all our hearts. It involves taking a few moments of the day together as a family to read the Bible and pray. While family worship is not a magic formula, the practice invites the Lord to work in the hearts of parents and kids, to ensure that the faith is passed to the next generation within our homes.
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house …
Build a Vibrant Family Ministry for Your Church
Ministry In The Oikos
In the early church, Gospel ministry was driven in and through homes. The early church gathered in homes for corporate worship on Sundays.[1] For men to be qualified to serve as elders in the...
Family Worship: The Launching Pad For Your Family’s Ministry
If you are reading this article, you probably have a growing desire to see your children make a difference in the world for Christ. You want to see them go into the world and "make disciples." You...
Encouraging Empty Nest Parents
Millions of empty nest parents know the pain of one of their adult children struggling in their faith. Dr. Rienow talks with Joy from WETN Radio about the encouraging new book Never Too...
Bringing Singles & Family Ministry Together
If a church begins the journey of developing a family ministry, one of the first questions that will arise is, “What about those in our church who are single? We don’t want to send the message to...
Do Children Belong in Church?
Three Key Starting Points The sufficiency of Scripture This issue, and all issues of Christian living, needs to be approached through the lens of “Sola Scriptura.” God’s Word has given us all that...
Family Ministry: Program or Strategy?
During the last decade, churches all over the country have added a new ministry to their church: Family Ministry. For larger churches, this has often included adding a part-time or full-time Family...
