Family Study: Week Of: Sunday, January 17, 2021 – 1 Timothy 1:3-11

Reflection

(1Ti 1:3 ESV) As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

(1Ti 1:4 ESV) nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.

(1Ti 1:5 ESV) The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

(1Ti 1:6 ESV) Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,

(1Ti 1:7 ESV) desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

(1Ti 1:8 ESV) Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

(1Ti 1:9 ESV) understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

(1Ti 1:10 ESV) the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

(1Ti 1:11 ESV) in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

Discussion

Paul commands _____________, his child in the faith, to stay in _____________ and teach sound _____________ to the church.  That will build the church up in _____________ with pure _____________.

We should never seek our own agendas or alternative motives in the _____________.  Instead we should be focused on the _____________ of God and His direction for our lives.  

Inside the context of the church, all people have roles defined in _____________.  We are called to follow those with pure, sincere _____________.

Connection

What unique gifts do the members of your family have from God? Consider these questions:

 

What are you good at? (music, art, cooking, building, talking, writing etc)

 

What makes you happy? (planning, helping, encouraging, going and doing)

 

Where do you want to work? 

 

How can those be used to build up the people of the church and encourage them to love and good works?

 

Expansion

The Called: God Will Build His Church
Colossians 1:15-20, Colossians 3:15, Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Matthew 22:37-39, Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 2:42-27

Scripture is true and without error
2 Timothy 3:14-17, Hebrews 1:1-2, Jeremiah 1:0-11, Luke 16:29-31, 2 Peter 1:19-21, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, James 4:5, Romans 15:4, Colossians 3:16, 1 John 5:9-12, Matthew 24:35, Matthew 5:18, Isaiah 40:8