Title: My House, God's House
Author: James Merritt
Text: Joshua 24:14-15
Introduction
1. Many of you probably do not know the name G.K. Chesterton, but at the turn of the twentieth century he was one of the most widely read writers and popular speakers in Great Britain. He was a brilliant thinker and a tremendous wordsmith. The playwright, T.S. Elliott so admired and respected his brilliance and thinking he said, "He was always on the side of the angels." To that end, he asked a question that put so much of human existence into perspective, "Can anyone tell me two things more vital to the race than these: what man shall marry what woman and what shall be the first things taught to their first child?"1
2. Juxtapose that quote alongside this one with the great thinker and apologist named Os Guinness. "In the twenty-first century the overall crisis of the family needs no exposition. From permissiveness of the hook-up culture to the pill that separates sexual pleasure and procreation, to no-fault divorce, to abortion on demand, to alternative forms of marriage, to assisted suicide, to the collapse of the family dining table, and to all the sex-education materials for students in public schools, all these recent trends have joined forces to undermine the Jewish and Christian view of the family as the bedrock nurturing and transmitting [the] institution of civilization."2
3. I believe there is a correlation between what is going on today in our country and our culture and what is going on today in our homes and families or rather what is not going on today in our homes and families. I'll never waiver from the belief that strong marriages and stable families are a nation's greatest asset. Family is so important to God that we are going to spend eternity in his family.
4. I believe the church is where God's family has a family reunion, gets together as a family, fellowships as a family, worships as a family, grows as a family and experiences ...
Author: James Merritt
Text: Joshua 24:14-15
Introduction
1. Many of you probably do not know the name G.K. Chesterton, but at the turn of the twentieth century he was one of the most widely read writers and popular speakers in Great Britain. He was a brilliant thinker and a tremendous wordsmith. The playwright, T.S. Elliott so admired and respected his brilliance and thinking he said, "He was always on the side of the angels." To that end, he asked a question that put so much of human existence into perspective, "Can anyone tell me two things more vital to the race than these: what man shall marry what woman and what shall be the first things taught to their first child?"1
2. Juxtapose that quote alongside this one with the great thinker and apologist named Os Guinness. "In the twenty-first century the overall crisis of the family needs no exposition. From permissiveness of the hook-up culture to the pill that separates sexual pleasure and procreation, to no-fault divorce, to abortion on demand, to alternative forms of marriage, to assisted suicide, to the collapse of the family dining table, and to all the sex-education materials for students in public schools, all these recent trends have joined forces to undermine the Jewish and Christian view of the family as the bedrock nurturing and transmitting [the] institution of civilization."2
3. I believe there is a correlation between what is going on today in our country and our culture and what is going on today in our homes and families or rather what is not going on today in our homes and families. I'll never waiver from the belief that strong marriages and stable families are a nation's greatest asset. Family is so important to God that we are going to spend eternity in his family.
4. I believe the church is where God's family has a family reunion, gets together as a family, fellowships as a family, worships as a family, grows as a family and experiences ...
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