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BUILDING HOUSEHOLDS OF FAITH

BUILDING HOUSEHOLDS OF FAITH. CWA Conference 4 th April 2011. Welcome to Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church. CHURCH – THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. Hebrews 3.1-6 ( cf Nu 12.7 & 1 Chron 17.14) 1 Peter 2.4-8; 4.17 1 Tim 3.15. CHURCH – THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. Ephesians 2.19-22

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BUILDING HOUSEHOLDS OF FAITH

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  1. BUILDING HOUSEHOLDS OF FAITH CWA Conference 4th April 2011

  2. Welcome toStirling Avenue Mennonite Church

  3. CHURCH – THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH • Hebrews 3.1-6 (cf Nu 12.7 & 1 Chron17.14) • 1 Peter 2.4-8; 4.17 • 1 Tim 3.15

  4. CHURCH – THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH • Ephesians 2.19-22 • Strangers (paroikos) • Members of household (oikeios) Gal 6.10 • Built on (epoiodomeo) 1 Cor 3.10-14 • Building (oikodome )Eph 4.12, 16, 29 • Building Together (sunoikodomeo) • Dwelling Place (katoiketerion) Jer 9.10; Rev 18.2

  5. CHURCH – THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH • Gospels • The new family Matt 10.21-25 & 34-39; 12.46ff; 18.1-4; 19.29; 23.8f; Mark 3.31-35; 10.29f; Luke 12.53 (Micah 7.6); 18.29f • The family/household matters Luke 1 & 2; 9.57-62; 12.51-53; 14.15-35; 18.18-30 - household meals etc esp in Luke; Matt 5.27-32; 19.3-9,19

  6. HOUSEHOLD CHURCHES • Acts 2.46; 5.42; 10.17 - 11.18; 16.13-15; 16.25-34; 18.8; 20.7-12; 20.20 • 1 Corinthians 1.16 • Colossians 4.15 • Philemon 2 • 2 Tim 1.16 & 4.19 • Household worship, breaking of bread, teaching, preaching, evangelism, baptisms, church

  7. HOUSEHOLD CHURCHES Priscilla & Aquila • Acts 18.1-8 – In Corinth • Paul stays in household of Priscilla & Aquila (cf 18.26) • Romans 16.5 & 1 Cor 16.19 ‘Greet also the church in their (Priscilla & Aquila) house’

  8. HOUSEHOLD CODES • Mirror codes of the ancient world and yet go beyond them • Ephesians 5.21 – 6.9 • Women, children and slaves are named and identified. Unlike other ancient codes. To name is to identify, give significance to, value. read in the light of ‘the household of God’ in Eph 2 • Colossians 3.18 – 4.1 • 1 Peter 2.18 – 3.7 – read in the light of the spiritual house of 2.4-8

  9. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYFOOD • Weekly household meals – Fair Oak story • ‘Grace’ as part of household life at family meals

  10. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYBIBLE READING & PRAYER • Family Bible Reading – Howard Worsley • Extended Family Bible Reading – Keith White & Mill Grove • Family Liturgies

  11. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYFAMILY FUN • Church on the Hill – Carolyn Edwards • Games, Swimming, Film ......

  12. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYEXTENDING HOUSEHOLD • Families coming together as extended households • Families incorporating single people as extended households – modelling singleness and offering community • Families welcoming visitors as temporary household members

  13. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYACTING JUSTLY • Households as places where justice is practised • Households which engage in pursuing justice – child sponsorship; global prayer

  14. HOUSEHOLD FAITH TODAYAWAY FROM IT ALL • Times away – camps, house-parties etc as experience of extended households – Temporary Communities

  15. MESSY CHURCH – A Proposal • Messy Church – a form of extended household? • Development therefore is both taking this back into households & then helping them be extended households • Messy Church as a model for more church life?

  16. QUESTIONS • What examples / stories can you share of building households of faith? • What role can we play as CWAs in encouraging the building of households of faith?

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