Six Traits of Strong Families

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Six Traitsof Strong Families

• Gods Wisdom from Proverbs

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• Family Breakdown
• We continually hear of family breakdown in the
  world (1129)
• Breakdown due to inner weakness
• Breakdown due to outward pressure
• God gives us the wisdom to build strong families
  (333 127 141,11)

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Strong Families

• Strong Religious Faith in God
• Strength comes from faith
• Focus on God in the home (17 910 1516)
• Bible reading (21-5 2323,26)
• Prayer (158,29)
• Worship

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Strong Families

• Strong Inward Character
• Strength comes from application of God's word
  throughout age
• A man of honorable character (2029 2721 293)
• A woman of honorable character (1116 124
  1913-14 3110ff)
• A youthful honorable character (101 131
  155,20 287)

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Strong Families

• Strong Love Within the Family
• Strength comes from commitment
• Love for one anothers welfare (1012 1517
  3023)
• Avoid selfishness that destroys family life
  (1215)
• Give heart-felt appreciation, affection, and
  praise (43-4 2324-25 2511)
• Avoid harsh / critical words that tear down
  (128 154 171 219,19)

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Strong Families

• Strong Love Within the Family
• Cultivate good words that will build up (1523
  1813,20-21)
• Angry words tear down
  (151-2,14,17,28)
• Children loving parents (1926 2020 2322-25
  3011,17)

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Strong Families

• Strong Discipline in the Home
• Strength comes from training
• Instructive discipline (311-12 131 155
  1918 226)
• Corrective discipline (1324 1918 2215
  2313-14 2915,17)

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Strong Families

• Strong Ties That Bind
• Strength comes from spending enjoyable time
  together
• Positive interaction builds bonds and ties
  (410-11 515ff 2326)
• Excessive business separates and suffocates
  family ties (278)

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Strong Families

• Strong Defenses
• Strength comes by building defenses
• Righteous principles help us overcome lifes
  difficulties (2410,16)
• Spiritually healthy families pull together in
  times of crisis (418-19 1717)

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• Six Traits of Strong Families
• Faith
• Character
• Love
• Discipline
• Ties
• Defenses

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• Strong Families
• God wrote the manual on strong families (243-4)
• Let us build in ourselves and our children the
  strength it takes to make it to heaven!