Words With Families Sunday

Introduction to Christian Home Week, 2012

    During Christian Home Week, FBC Killeen encourages families and friends to have seven days of devotionals.  If you have a Scrabble game, pick out the letters each day for the devotional word. (If you don’t have a Scrabble game, consider buying one as games are a great family get-together).

    Get a device with internet access (go to www.biblestudytools.com) Bibles with different translations to read a variety versions to come up with words to go with each day’s key word. Turn to Titus chapter 2 (NIV)

    “Words With Family” is for family members to come up with words to connect with each day’s Bible theme word.Don't feel limited to the ones on the devotionals. Encourage family members and friends to come up with other words to describe our members.

Read Titus 2:1-15

  ¹You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. ²Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.  

³Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.⁴Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. ⁶Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. ⁷In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness ⁸and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. ⁹Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, ¹⁰and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive. ¹¹For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. ¹²It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, ¹³while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. ¹⁵These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

Sunday. Read Titus 2:3-5

    Use Scrabble letters to spell out “MOTHERS”. When you think of godly women, what are some words that use the letters found in “MOTHERS”?

Mature “...older women” The word “older” not only means age, but can mean “advanced rank” and is sometimes translated “ambassador” or “elders” in the church. There are always those who are more advanced than we are from whom we can learn and to whom we can give respect. This means to revere or be respectful of one another. Specifically, Paul encourages women not to hurt people with words (“slander”) and not to be indulgent in self-pleasures, especially alcohol.

Others “to love their husbands, to love their children” Women are to put others first, especially in their love for their husbands and children.

Teachers “teach what is good” Mothers are our first teachers. In addition to love, Paul gives the following four examples of what mature women can teach younger women (and the rest of us as well).

Homemakers. “busy at home” Many women work outside the home, but all mothers make their homes a priority.

Examples “to be kind” Some translations simply say women are to teach the younger women to be good.

Righteous in action “pure” The word pure or chaste is from the same word we the word “Holy.” (Greek: HAGIOS)

Sensible (in wisdom). “self-controlled” This word means to be of sound mind, temperate, “wise thinking. Other translations render these last two words as “chaste and discreet” or being “wise in mind and clean in heart.”