Why Buidling Faith at Home is so important

Mark Holman has an excellent brochure about faith at home... today I want to highlight one page of it that gives 3 reasons why building faith at home is so important, followed by my comments.

Reason #1 – The Antidote to Hypocrisy Mark comments:

One of the primary reasons why people leave, or do not engage in, the Christian faith is hypocrisy. Many have grown up in or around Christians who act, dress and behave one way at church while they live a completely different way a part from church.• Faith@Home is critical for both churches and individuals today as it strikes at the core deterrent that is turning many people away from Christianity. Faith@Home is about helping people live a 24/7 Christian lifestyle not a one-hour, at church only, Christianity.

When faith is disconnected from the home, from every day life, it creates inconsistent, weak believers at best and hypocrites who only appear to be following Jesus at worst. But when it is applied and lived in the home then we know "the rubber has met the road".

Reason #2 –The Home is still the number one influence.

When Christian teenagers were asked to identify the things that influenced them to become and remain Christians the top two influences identified were mom and dad. In fact, mom and dad were two to three times more influential than any church program. It is clear that what happens at home is more influential than what happens at church. While church programs are important they are secondary in impact to the influence that the home life has on faith development and nurture.

Life has taught me in most cases, not all but most, that in the end kids have the same priorities and lifestyle as their parents modeled for them, regardless of what was taught to them. I think this is the way God created it to be. Let's use it for good.

Reason #3 – Multi-Generational Impact

The choices and decisions we make today will not only impact us but it will impact our children and grandchildren as well.• The good news is that the decision we make today, to be a Faith@Home household and Faith@Home focused church, will not only impact us but it will impact future generations as well!

Building faith at home, bringing God ways, standards, prayer, bible reading, and modeling back to the front burner can effect not only the next generation but all that follow. Kids remember seeing their parents pray, of course, the opposite is also true.

Blessings today.

PR