Pew2You
Dan Fitzgerald
Family Man
11-27-16
Highlights:
1.) Sizing up is seizing up. It’s not a competition.
2.) Having a family language is the byproduct of time spent together. Come and clock in.
3.) A corporate walk of faith is never intended to replace our personal walk of faith, but neither is sufficient to keep us growing to our fullest potential in Christ.
4.) We can’t be us without you, but we can’t be you when we are us.
Discussion Questions:
1.) What makes you proud to be a part of the family of faith?
2.) Do you know your spiritual family history? Who led you to the Lord? And them? If you were to hang the photos of those people on your wall, who would be in those frames?
3.) What is your part to play in the family of faith? What are you doing to do your share?
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
Eph 1:19-22 NIV
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are Godʼs handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Eph 2:8-10 NIV
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
Eph 3:14-15 NIV
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
Eph 3:6 NIV
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lordʼs holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:17-19 NIV
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lordʼs holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:17-19 NIV
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Eph 6:12 NIV