NBFamilies the Parent's Partner

Last week we evaluated the current threats coming against families. For the past 4 weeks I have documented how families in modern America are under siege. We are are searching for a solution. More seminary classes, children’s programs, camps, conferences, technology, books, and trained leaders are not the solution. The bible offers us a solution.

What is needed is a theological and structural reorientation which spawns a new church culture that draws families together instead of pulling them apart.

New Beginnings Church is intentionally seeking a solution to this threat. NBFamilies, or Family Equipping Ministry is the answer! New Beginnings Church partnering with families is the solution! NBFamilies will promote family unity where:

• Our families are drawn together,
• Our dads are equipped to lead their families,
• Our children’s hearts are turned toward their fathers and mothers (Malachi 4:6),
• Our mother’s and father’s hearts are turned toward their children (Malachi 4:6; Luke 1:17),
• Our Family Ministry’s Mission is to make a place for our single parents and our blended families, our families in crisis or distress, and children’s and teenager’s whose parents are not yet invested.

We believe families are waiting to be led. In this culture of chaos our parents are looking for solutions and our kids are looking for direction. Families see the problems and are searching for answers. [T. Jones. Perspectives on Family Ministry: Three Views, 1-3]

The task of discipling our children is too significant to hire someone else to do it.

The home has had the greatest impact on young lives; with few exceptions, if we fail to impact the home, we will never make a lasting impact on students.
The Barna research group has come to the following conclusion:

“The Ministry’s having the greatest success and seeing people emerge into maturing Christians, rather than contented churchgoers, are those that facilitate a parent-church partnership focused on instilling specific spiritual beliefs and practices in a child’s life from a very early age." [T. Jones. Perspectives on Family Ministry: Three Views, 143]

New Beginnings Church is a family-equipping churches. Family-equipping churches retain some age-organized ministries that restructure the congregation to partner with parents at every level of ministry so that parents are acknowledged, equipped, and held accountable for the discipleship of their children.
It is the desire of New Beginnings Church that we have not just a good youth group but a generation that loves God with heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:28-34).
NBFamiles is rallying around the idea of synchronizing each age-organized ministry partnering with parents who serve as primary disciple makers in their children’s lives.
The current culture has made it painfully apparent that parents have abdicated responsibility for their children’s discipleship to the church. In a competitive church environment churches indulged this abdication with an ever expanding and always dazzling array of programs for youth and children.
NBFamilies intend for parents to become the primary spiritual catalyst in their children’s lives instead of relying on the church’s programs.
New Beginnings Church will not contribute to the fragmentation of families. Rather, we will discover, develop and deploy a biblical solution!

Dr. Phil Sallee, Pastor
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