1. Ingredients of Happy Families:
A Correct Attitude Toward Authority

2. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Power to enforce obedience; to influence action, opinion, belief.
Direction and Discipline (Prov 25:28; Jas 3:12-16; 2 Pet 2:18-19)

3. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Headship of man (Eph 5:23; 1 Cor 11:3; 1 Tim 3:4, 12)
Leadership learned (Eph 5:25-29; Col 3:19; 1 Peter 3:7)

4. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Subjection of woman (Eph 5:22-24; Col 3:18-19; 1 Tim 2:11-15; Gen 3:16)
Submission learned (Tit 2:3-5; 1 Pet 3:1-7)

5. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Subjection Objections:
Oneness in Christ (Gal 3:28)
Inferiority (John 6:38; 1 Cor 11:3)

6. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Extremes: Husbands:
No leadership at all
Dictatorship
Demeaning attitude toward women
Physical or emotional abuse
Bitterness

7. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Extremes: Wives:
An appendage of man
Take over leadership
Contentious

8. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Obedience of children (Eph 6:1-3; Exo 20:12; Col 3:20)
God first (Eph 6:1; Matt 10:37)
Accept parental guidance (Prov 1:8-9; 3:1-2; ...)
Disobedience is deadly (Rom 1:30-32; Deut 21:18-21; ...)

9. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Rebellion:
Diminishes parents' happiness (Prov 10:1; 17:25)
Destroy parents' reputation (1 Sam 3:13)
Decreases parents’ service to God (1 Tim 3:4, 5, 12; Tit 1:6).

10. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Discipline:
Instructive (Eph 6:1-3; Prov 19:18; 22:6; 29:17)

11. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Discipline:
Instructive or Corrective (Prov 13:24; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15)
Neither excessively lenient nor harsh
Consistent
Age appropriate
Not administered in anger

12. Ingredients of happy families: Authority
Authority infers service (Luke 22:24-27; John 13)
Authority in fear and humility (Eph 5:21: 1 Pet 5:5)