The Courageous Church is currently going through a series entitled 100 Life Goals: Creating a Vision for Victory. It has been a powerful experience as we guide our community through a very real process of creating a real, working, God-inspired plan for their lives. Here are the scriptures that we used this past Sunday to help inspire & guide us as we create the first 25 goals we call Family/Friend Goals.
Scripture on Family/Living in Community
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him. – Genesis 2:18
Thinking of Your Spouse
21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.[b] 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. – Ephesians 5:21-30
Thinking of Your Parents
Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. –Exodus 20:12
6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. 7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. –Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Thinking of Your Children
3 Children are a gift from the LORD;
they are a reward from him.
4 Children born to a young man
are like arrows in a warrior’s hands.
5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! – Psalm 127:3-5
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4
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SCRIPTURES ON FRIENDS
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There are “friends” who destroy each other,
but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. – Proverbs 18:24
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An open rebuke
is better than hidden love!
Wounds from a sincere friend
are better than many kisses from an enemy. – Proverbs 27:5-6
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9 Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. 11 Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? 12 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. – Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
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12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. – John 15:12-15