{"id":6366,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/how-big-is-your-family\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","slug":"how-big-is-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/how-big-is-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big Is Your Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Family series.   Importance of community and wider relationships.<br \/>\n                                                                   Acts 17:28<br \/>\n                           =======================<br \/>\n                           HOW BIG IS YOUR FAMILY?<br \/>\n                           =======================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Genuine &#8220;Family Values.&#8221;<br \/>\n         A. Modern life reduces us to tiny bits.<br \/>\n         B. We need a wider sense of family.<br \/>\n         C. How big is your family?<\/p>\n<p>    II. Nuclear family.<br \/>\n         A. Very basic unit.<br \/>\n         B. Never meant to stand alone.<br \/>\n         C. Parents and In-laws.                               Gen 2:24<\/p>\n<p>   III. Neighborhood \/ community \/ world.                      Acts 17:28<br \/>\n         A. Christians are often &#8220;us against them.&#8221;<br \/>\n         B. Unity of humanity is desirable and God&#8217;s will.     1 Tim 4:10,<br \/>\n                                                               Lev 19:33-34<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Christians should be &#8220;world people.&#8221;                   John 3:16<br \/>\n         A. Have the broadest concept of who can be in your family.<br \/>\n         B. Christians should set example of service.<br \/>\n         C. Recent example in our church.<\/p>\n<p>     V. The best family of all is the family of God.<br \/>\n         A. Jesus says God&#8217;s family is more important than human family.<br \/>\n         B. People come to church for relationships.<br \/>\n         C. Are you part of family of God?                     John 1:12-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Family series. Importance of community and wider relationships. Acts 17:28 ======================= HOW BIG IS YOUR FAMILY? ======================= I. Genuine &#8220;Family Values.&#8221; A. Modern life reduces us to tiny bits. B. We need a wider sense of family. C. How big is your family? II. Nuclear family. A. Very basic unit. B. Never meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76,96,1629,261],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}