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"Equipping the family to equip the church-
Equipping the church to equip the family"

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Your Home “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise…” I Corinthians 1:27 As the world unravels, world leaders turn to ‘sophisticated’ solutions. Anything that is simple, wholesome, and private is the very last option to be considered. Yet our God chose the ‘foolishness’ of the home from which to spring life. Real life. Not only has the foundation of the home been ignored, it has been assaulted. Both men and women have been pressured to choose making money over making disciples. We now are a country full of huge mortgages and bankrupt relationships. Children have been shipped off to ‘professionals’ who simply cannot train up children, but simply manage them. The family has been apart too long and generations have grown up and grown old without knowing how to grow together.
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Your Church Across our nation, church leaders are waking up to an undeniable reality. Millions of dollars and mega-sized buildings may entertain the church, but they do not necessarily equip the church. Decades later we see a church that has little to no effect in the 21st century culture war.

We believe that our sovereign God is still fully capable of working out his purpose within his church, but he loves her too much to leave her as she is. We see that His Spirit is once again up to his work in building a new wineskin in which to breathe new life into his church. There are several words that could be used to describe this new wineskin, or framework, but it all centers on primarily one focus. Returning the heart of His children back to relationship instead of riches.
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Your World Christians love to talk about changing the world. Unfortunately what usually happens is that the world changes us instead. You see God did not intend for children to be born into a school or church. They are born into a family for a reason. They need to trained and protected. They need to be given muscle that will be able to stand firm when they are exposed to the winds of this world. So when children are placed with their cultural peers for the majority of their childhood, we shouldn’t be surprised when they embrace the values of their friends, instead of their family.  As families begin to take seriously the task of building a basecamp for their children to climb from, they will indeed begin to overflow into their world.
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Welcome to Equipping the Family

As 2010 arrives, the family enters a new year with many significant issues threatening to cripple and paralyze it.  Instead of seeing the social, moral and economic bankruptcy of our culture as sealing the doom of the family, it could in fact serve as a catalyst for amazing change.  This will only happen if the family is able to be equipped as God intended for it to be.  Not with riches, as man likes to quickly run to, but with real relationships.  Relationships that stream from a real God into our real lives.  A life that God intended to begin within our unique families.  Then into His church.  Then overflowing into His World.  Why don’t we see this overflow happening today?  The family has been undermined for generations, instead of equipped.  Undermined not only by the culture around us, but the churches we have gone to for help. It’s time for that to change.  And by God’s grace it will.  One family at a time.  One church at a time.  Is yours ready?
 
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