FAMILY RESTORATION

The family consists of parents (Husband and wife) and usually children, in a house hold. The family unit may be with or without relatives, friends, and servants. The family is the oldest and most basic of human institutions. God created it. Why is the family Important? The family is God’s plan for husbands and wives to team up with Him in the continuing work of creation by conceiving children and propagating godly offspring within the union of their marriage (Genesis 4:1, ..now Adam slept with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant . . . she gave birth to Cain, and she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have brought forth a man!” , (Ps 127:3). (Malachi 2:15).

The family is the building block of every nation

The Family is a spiritual unit, the center of growth, development, teaching and learning about God and godliness for the attainment of mature adult character. It is the place for effectively modeling the truth. (Joshua 24:15 . . . as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord). It is a place of love, encouragement and shelter from life’s storms. For the purpose of functioning according to God’s plan, the family has a built-in authority structure, roles and responsibilities of the members are clearly spelt out.
The husband is leader to the wife and the parents are leaders to the children. All leadership is a form of service rather than of tyranny, and these domestic leadership roles must be fulfilled in love (Eph. 5:22–6:4; Col. 3:18-21; 1 Pet. 3:1-7). Parents must teach their families how to know God and walk with him (Det 6:7, Ex 10:2, Titus2:4-5, Prov 22:6, Eph 6:1-4 .

Children are to learn to take care of themselves and take care of others in the family. Children must be instructed (Gen. 18:18-19; Deut. 4:9; 6:6-8; 11:18-21; Prov. 22:6; Eph. 6:4) and must be encouraged to take the instruction seriously as a basis for their living (Prov. 1:8; 6:20). Parents must discipline their children, that is, provide directive and corrective training which is necessary to lead children beyond childish folly to self-controlled wisdom (Prov. 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15, 17). Just as there is purposeful, loving discipline in God’s family (Prov. 3:11-12; Heb. 12:5-11), so there must be in the human family. Households became the units of Christian commitment in New Testament times (Acts 11:14; 16:15, 31-33; 1 Cor. 1:16).
The fitness of candidates for church office was assessed by observing whether they had led their family well (1 Tim. 3:4-5, 12; Titus 1:6). The Bible lists several genealogies, all recorded by family units, showing the family as central and fundamental to the development of people, communities and of nations. It is therefore one of God’s greatest resources for communicating truth and effecting change in any community as there is no better place to learn the essential principles of life and nowhere can the truths of God’s Word be more effectively taught and modeled.