Homes of LightSharing the Light

Written by: Pedro Iglesias, MADirector of the Department of Family Ministries for the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists in Miami, Florida, USA.From Revival and Reformation: Families Reaching Across.

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Modern Threats to Marriage and Children

• Increase of divorce• Youth rebellion• Secularism• Drug addiction• The rise of Satanism• Loss of Christian values• Wrongful expression of Sexuality• ____________________ ?

• Families can be different from the world they live in.

• God will protect families as He did the children of Israel.

• Families who live in the light are a witness to others.

Families in the Light

• Jesus is our source of Light

• Family worship

• Prayer

• Bible study

Priority 1: Ensure You have the Light

• Discuss the importance of ensuring Jesus’ presence in the home.

• Parents, make a commitment to your families to work together for the Light of the world to shine from your home.

Activity

• Think of an extended family member with whom you can share your faith.

• Make a list of three activities you could do with those family members to strengthen your relationship.

Extended Family: Activity

• Avoid imposing your own religious

beliefs.

• Lead with personal testimony.

• Be attentive to satisfying their needs.

• Strive to be the “best” you can.

Extended Family

• Think of a family with who you could share your faith.

• Make a list of 3 activities to do with them in order to strengthen your friendship.

• Share your ideas with the others.

Friends’ Homes: Activity

• Be a channel of blessings.

• Study the Family-to-Family program

guide.

• Activity: Meet together as a family and

pray for the family you chose in the

previous activity.

Friends’ Homes

• Share the blessing of salvation with others.

• Reach beyond your close family circle.• Build a missionary family.

Families in the Community:

• Participate together in the task of serving others.• Visit someone who is sick• Pay a friendship visit to a shut-in• Invite one or two of your children’s friends

to church and a meal on Sabbath. Provide transportation if needed.

• Do you have more ideas?

Family Missionary Project

• Participate together in the task of serving others.• Visit someone who is sick• Pay a friendship visit to a shut-in• Invite one or two of your children’s friends

to church and a meal on Sabbath. Provide transportation if needed.

• Do you have more ideas?

Family Missionary Project

• Raise missionary children

• Share the Light of salvation with others

• Connect to families through prayer and

Bible study

Commit to Hastening the Second Coming