Holy Living
The basics of our Christian life include daily exercises such as reading the Word, witnessing to others, praying, obeying the leadership of the Spirit, and attending church regularly. Without these, our spiritual lives will be weak and without power. As we are faithful in these spiritual disciplines, we will find ourselves growing closer to the Lord and more in tune with what pleases Him. Not only will we have an intimate relationship with Him, but we will also reflect His preferences in our lifestyle choices and appearances. What we do in our free time, what we choose to look at, what we choose to spend our money on and what we wear will all be impacted to be a greater reflection of God's purity and holiness. Our relationships will become rooted in a Biblical way that reflects Christ's unconditional love and the way of both holiness and evangelism both in the family and the cultural levels.
At Faith Family Fellowship, our desire is to work together as a body to grow more into His likeness in every way to allow Christ to be seen in us.
A helpful link to holy living: http://www.schultze.org
A Family-Integrated Church
At Faith Family Fellowship, we support families. One way we do this is to allow the children to worship together with their parents in the services.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7: "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
Does the Bible say a Sunday school teacher is to teach our children God's word? No, this verse is speaking to parents. Look carefully at when we are to teach them. The scripture lists four separate times during the day. Only the parents are with the children often enough for that. This constant teaching cannot be replaced by a Sunday school program, and children whose parents do teach them this way need no Sunday school program. In fact, they are listening intently to the pastor, picking up much more than we expect, oftentimes more than we do! Though there is a place for outreach for unbelieving children and their families, the believer is not to leave the responsibility of teaching his own children to the church.
Not only do our children learn more from attending church with the adults, but they are not learning bad habits and silliness from other children. They are closely supervised by their parents and learning to sit still and pay attention at a young age. The parents then get the benefit of learning from the children's story, which is always relevant to our lives as well. Then at home, when opportunity presents itself to apply these principles to our lives, we will have heard the children's story, they will have heard the sermon with us, and we can show them what it means to be doers of God's Word and not hearers only.
Parents are the main teachers of our children. Our job, as a church, is to provide the support they need to do that as God leads them. Does your child have trouble sitting in a service? We have some ideas that may help!