{"id":7078,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/ten-biblical-guidelines-for-family-communication\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"ten-biblical-guidelines-for-family-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/ten-biblical-guidelines-for-family-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Biblical Guidelines For Family Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Biblical guidelines for family communication:<\/p>\n<p>  A. Be a ready listener and do not answer until the other has finished.<br \/>\n                                              Prov 18:13; James 1:19<br \/>\n  B. Be slow to speak.  Think first.  Speak as to be understood.<br \/>\n                                Prov 15:23,28; 21:23; 29:20; Jam 1:19<br \/>\n  C. Speak the truth always but do it in love.  Do not exaggerate.<br \/>\n                                Eph 4:15,25; Col 3:9<br \/>\n  D. Do not use silence to frustrate the other person.     1 Sam 25:3<br \/>\n  E. Do not become involved in quarrels.  It is possible to disagree<br \/>\n        without quarreling.     Prov 17:14; 20:3; Rom 13:13; Eph 4:31<br \/>\n  F. Do not respond in anger.  Use a soft and kind response.<br \/>\n                          Prov 14:29; 15:1; 25:15; 29:11; Eph 4:26,31<br \/>\n  G. When you are wrong, admit it and ask for forgiveness.   Jam 5:19<br \/>\n  H. Avoid nagging.             Prov 10:19; 17:9; 20:5<br \/>\n  I. Do not blame or criticize the other person.<br \/>\n  J. Try to understand the other person&#8217;s opinion.   Phil 2:1-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Biblical guidelines for family communication: A. Be a ready listener and do not answer until the other has finished. Prov 18:13; James 1:19 B. Be slow to speak. Think first. Speak as to be understood. Prov 15:23,28; 21:23; 29:20; Jam 1:19 C. Speak the truth always but do it in love. Do not exaggerate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2263,363,81,96,362,539,4949],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078"}],"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=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}