Family ministry
THE CHURCH AS A FAMILY
THE FAMILY AS A CHURCH
WHAT?
Family ministry at Meadow Creek continues to be a joint effort between the church and its families in the discipling of the household. We look to give ourselves to a family-equipping vision, one that places parents at the center of discipling their own children and surrounds them with the whole church family. Two convictions hold this together, like the two wings of a plane: the family is meant to function as a little church, and the church is meant to function as a larger family.
HOW?
There are numerous ways in which this vision is carried out within Meadow Creek:
- Sunday Worship Gatherings
- Sunday School
- Core Classes
- Midweek Fellowship
- Gospel Community Groups (GCG)
- Retreats
- Seminars
WHY?
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be like frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 1:28
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 78:1-8
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Titus 2:1-6
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