Course 1

This session reveals the competition parents and grandparents have. Other people are targeting their offspring just as wolves target their prey. Some of the wolves are revealed here to help us see the varied dangers they put young people in. Family leaders must take seriously the threat this poses for their loved ones.

To discover the necessary wise skills God has provided so their offspring can be equipped to avoid being entrapped, addicted and/or harmed or broken down.

1. Recognizing how important we parents and grandparents are in meeting the many needs a child has in getting through all that child’s growing up years.
2. To ask ourselves to courageously confront the challenges both we and our offspring face as we live in this world.
3. To point out what we have discovered in God’s word that helps us deal with life’s realities and pass that on to our offspring.

As with the first generations of the Christian church, it takes time to grasp the full potential of what a congregation has within it. The important role of what lay members are about can easily get lost. Therefore the letter to the Ephesians sheds new light on two things. First, the job of church leaders to train the lay people for their important but often overlooked ministries in the home and in the workplace. Secondly, by intentionally equipping these lay people for their specific assignments from God, the congregation will find itself having a stronger team and good work being carried out even leading to the next generation.

1. To clarify Biblical teachings on what God wants a parent and grandparent to be about.
2. To identify Bible passages which spell this out.
3. To help family leaders see the importance of what they are or could be doing as instruments of impacting future generations.