What Does It Take to Build a Family that Thrives?

You Asked For It – 2025

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BUILD A FAMILY THAT THRIVES?

(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

1. Love

a. Thriving families know the you can give your kids is a with your spouse.

Ephesians 5:21-22, 25

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord… Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Matthew 19:5-6

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

2. Just

a. Thriving families know you need to show up for each other with your and .

i. Attention — spend time together .

ii. Affection — use your to communicate how you feel.

1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

3. Cultivate

a. Thriving families know you will have .

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

4. Stay

a. Thriving families know that .

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

5. Keep

a. Thriving families know that faith isn’t just , it’s .

Joshua 24:15

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Today’s “Big Idea”…

Thriving families are , not .

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