{"id":400,"date":"2016-05-08T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-05-31T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:54:14","slug":"family-matters-god-has-ideals-four-our-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Family Matters: Real vs Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-400-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-8-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-8-16.mp3\">http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-8-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>FAMILY MATTERS: LIVING IN THE REAL WHILE STRIVING FOR GOD\u2019S IDEAL<\/p>\n<p>God _______________________________ for our families.<br \/>\nGenesis 1:27-28<\/p>\n<p>From Ephesians 5\/6<br \/>\nHusbands:<br \/>\nWives:<br \/>\nKids:<br \/>\nParents:<\/p>\n<p>Three key ideals from Ephesians 5 and 6 here:<br \/>\n_________________ _________________ _________________<\/p>\n<p>What it would look like if your family was deeply marked by these three ideals?<\/p>\n<p>*Jesus pointed people __________________________________________.<br \/>\nMatthew 19:3-8<br \/>\n*Jesus refused to ____________________________________________.<br \/>\nJohn 8:3-11<\/p>\n<p>Question we must answer:<br \/>\nWill we strive for God\u2019s ideal in our family even though our reality doesn\u2019t measure up?<\/p>\n<p><em>*Some material taken from Andy Stanley&#8217;s &#8220;Future Family&#8221; series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This Week&#8217;s Family Challenge<\/p>\n<p>Families: Set aside an hour this week as a family (or an individual) to consider your reality. Those with young children may need to simplify the questions a bit.<br \/>\nIndividuals: You may need to consider these questions with regard to your family of origin, or perhaps within your closest friendships\/relationships right now.<\/p>\n<p>What things are good about our family? How are you living out God\u2019s ideals as a family? Make a list of AS MANY AS YOU CAN! THINK OF!<br \/>\nWhat would you say are your best 3 qualities? Why?<br \/>\nTalk about the 3 ideals taken from Ephesians 5 and 6. First ask: How well do you feel your family demonstrates each of these qualities? Then ask: Would it look in your family if each one of them things were more evident :<br \/>\nLove<br \/>\nRespect<br \/>\nCooperation.<\/p>\n<p>There are always ways we can grow to become more of what God intended for us, whether as individuals or as a family. What are 3 most important things you would change about your family if you could? In other words, what 3 areas would you like see improve?<br \/>\nIs there one of these areas that you could agree to work on as a family this week? \u00a0What steps could you take?<\/p>\n<p>Pray for God\u2019s help to grow in this area, and to become a better family in the weeks ahead during our FAMILY MATTERS series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMILY MATTERS: LIVING IN THE REAL WHILE STRIVING FOR GOD\u2019S IDEAL God _______________________________ for our families. Genesis 1:27-28 From Ephesians 5\/6 Husbands: Wives: Kids: Parents: Three key ideals from Ephesians 5 and 6 here: _________________ _________________ _________________ What it would look like if your family was deeply marked by these three ideals? *Jesus pointed people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family Matters: Real vs Ideal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-matters","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}