1. Parent Equipping Day
Thomas Kawazoe Elder / Administrative Pastor

2. Training our Children to Love God and Love People
Opening Questions:
How have you been helped in Pursuing Christ with Increasing Passion?
What practical things have people done?
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3. Biblical Foundation to our time
Matthew 22: 34 – 40 Love God with all your heart, soul and mind
Philippians 2: Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus…
Ephesians 6: 4 Bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord
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4. 3 Areas of Training Time / Schedule Relationships
Difficulties / Challenges
3 Areas of Training
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5. What’s really happening?
A quick exercise
Starting with what’s real
Ignorance is a deadly enemy
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6. An issue of the Heart Not about our rules and requirements
What do we love? What do we spend our most precious resource on?
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7. Time with God in private
Mark 1: 35. In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there
Matthew 6: 6. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
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8. Time with God and His People
Hebrews 10: 23 – 25. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
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9. Time Loving and Serving
Romans 12: 13….practicing hospitality
1 Timothy 5: 10. One expectation was that ‘she has shown hospitality to strangers’
Hebrews 13: 2. Do not neglect to show hospitality
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10. Time Loving and Serving
Galatians 5: 13. …but through love serve one another
Ephesians 4: 12. For the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ
Colossians 3: 24. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve
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11. Time Loving and Serving
Saying Yes and No
Shepherd and Train
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12. Relationships Humility vs Pride Regard for others
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13. Philippians 2: 5 – 8. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.
Humility vs Pride
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14. Humility vs Pride Forgive. Don’t always seek to explain yourself.
Obey quickly and cheerfully
Thankfulness and appreciation
Not only about what you say, but how you say it, and how you look when saying it
Humility vs Pride
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15. Philippians 2: Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Romans 12: 10. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;
Regard for Others
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16. Regard for Others How you might help foster this:
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17. Difficulties & Challenges
I Peter 1: 6 – 7 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable,…
Difficulties & Challenges
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18. Difficulties & Challenges
I Cor 10: 5 – 6 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness. Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.
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19. Difficulties & Challenges
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20. Difficulties & Challenges
Shepherd them to joyfully know and trust God
Shepherd them to respond to people in love
Difficulties & Challenges
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21. Begins with us… Let us be faithful to what God has entrusted to us
To love, shepherd, lead and train
Begins with us…
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22. To Christ be all the glory !
I Cor 10: 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
To Christ be all the glory !
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