Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2 Presentations: Be ready for your presentation day!
- Devotion 3 Outline: Due March 13th. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 3 Book Choices). Learn from your previous ones & start this early & make it good!
Journal 7-2: Study Packet, Page 16
- How would you define a ‘family'?
- - Write down 2-3 different ways you could define what a family is.
- What do you think most hurts families?
- - Write down 2-3 things that you think hurt families, keeping them from being healthy.
- - Describe how each of them hurts the family
- What do you think most helps a family?
- - Write down 2-3 things that you think help protect and encourage families to be the best that they can.
The Family: Study Packet, Page 2
- Family: The most basic institution of people, united by marriage, blood, and/or adoption.
- - A family is the smallest & key institution in a society.
- - Families guide interactions between people
- - Families help people know what their role in society is
- Historically, families have been based around marriages
- - But there are a few different perspectives on what the right marriage now is…
The Family - Perspectives on Marriage: Study Packet, Page 2
- Atheists: See biblical marriage as an institution that is:
- - Outdated: It is too old to be helpful in today’s changing world
- - Limiting: It keeps people from meeting their full potential
- - Man-made: Therefore it can be man-changed
- - So, they want to redefined to match the current society
- Christians: See biblical marriage as the ideal pattern for a family
- - The Pattern: One man, one woman, & then children
- - Even though polygamy happened, it was not approved
- - Supported by sociological studies as the best for individuals & societies!
- - Write down 2-3 different ways you could define what a family is.
- What do you think most hurts families?
- - Write down 2-3 things that you think hurt families, keeping them from being healthy.
- - Describe how each of them hurts the family
- What do you think most helps a family?
- - Write down 2-3 things that you think help protect and encourage families to be the best that they can.
The Family: Study Packet, Page 2
- Family: The most basic institution of people, united by marriage, blood, and/or adoption.
- - A family is the smallest & key institution in a society.
- - Families guide interactions between people
- - Families help people know what their role in society is
- Historically, families have been based around marriages
- - But there are a few different perspectives on what the right marriage now is…
The Family - Perspectives on Marriage: Study Packet, Page 2
- Atheists: See biblical marriage as an institution that is:
- - Outdated: It is too old to be helpful in today’s changing world
- - Limiting: It keeps people from meeting their full potential
- - Man-made: Therefore it can be man-changed
- - So, they want to redefined to match the current society
- Christians: See biblical marriage as the ideal pattern for a family
- - The Pattern: One man, one woman, & then children
- - Even though polygamy happened, it was not approved
- - Supported by sociological studies as the best for individuals & societies!
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