Encouraging Family Reformation

The biblical institutions of church and family in America are in need of reformation. Some say that we are in the period of greatest apostasy in 500 years. Less than one-half of one percent of adults ages 18 to 23 years have a biblical worldview. Only one-third of Christian parents say their religious faith is one of the most important influences on their parenting and only 27% of Protestant parents are very familiar with what the Bible has to say about parenting. It is clear that many Christian parents are no longer discipling their children in the faith. The result---SBC’s Council on Family Life reported that roughly 88 percent of evangelical children are leaving the church shortly after they graduate from high school. The problem is not only with the church and its program-oriented, marketing-driven growth philosophy, but also with parents, who have abdicated their role and responsibility in teaching, discipling, and nurturing their children in multigenerational faithfulness. The result is that the secular post-Christian culture has claimed the children and youth of America. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). We are encouraged by the fact that God is sovereign, Jesus Christ is Lord and His kingdom is forever. As we believe God's covenantal promise, our opportunity is great in working toward reformation of the family, the church, and the nations.

This blog links to a wide variety of writings on biblical issues regarding the family, biblical roles and relationships in the family, the church, education, and biblical worldview including ethics, apologetics, history, politics, and culture. The blog was created to encourage biblical family reformation through development of a clear family vision of multigenerational faithfulness. Our duties as parents include sharing the gospel with our children, discipling them in the faith (Deut 6:7), raising them in the fear, nuture, and admonition of the Lord (Prov 9:10; Eph 6:4), cultivating in them a biblical worldview (2 Cor 10:5), and providing them with the necessary tools to recognize and engage an increasingly humanistic, post-Christian culture while glorifying God.

April 5, 2009

Memorizing the "One Anothers"

By Scott Brown

An Illinois Church Memorizes the “One Anothers” in the New Testament. Christian Heritage Church in Orland Park, IL took the 50+ “one anothers” and consolidated them by removing the ones that overlapped, leaving 25 to memorize. They are listed here:

1. Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor.

2. Romans 14:13 Do not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this, not to put anobstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.

3. Romans 14:19 Pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

4. Romans 15:7 Accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.

5. 1 Corinthians 11:33 When you come together to eat, wait for one another.

6. 2 Corinthians 13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.

7. Galatians 5:13 Do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

8. Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

9. Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

10. Ephesians 5:19 Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord

11. Ephesians 5:21 Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

12. Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices

13. Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God

14. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

15. 1 Thessalonians 5:13 Live in peace with one another.

16. 1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another

17. Hebrews 3:13 Encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

18. Hebrews 10:24 Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds

19. James 4:11 Do not speak against one another, brethren He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

20. James 5:9 Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may notbe judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

21. James 5:16 Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed

22. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

23. 1 Peter 4:9 Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

24. 1 Peter 4:10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

25. 1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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