How to create A strong Christian Family Culture
Is your family busy doing life together but not really connecting?
Have the values, expectations, and beliefs you had about a strong family culture gotten lost in the shuffle of daily life?
we covered the topic of creating a strong christian family culture before, but i wanted to take the time to encourage everyone to revisit this concept often and evaluate where your family stands and better yet, where you want to go!
we want to help you gain fresh insight on how to live out your family values, create a purposeful family culture, and lead your family with confidence! It is our opinion that family life should be enjoyable and purpose-driven. For my family, that means saying “no” more often than we say ‘yes’ to outside commitments. it means always looking to opportunities to say “YES” when it comes to family time activities, adventures, passions, interests, and even simple little things that the kids may ask to do that will grow us stronger as a family!
It means… slowing down when we are tempted to speed up, and prioritizing relationships over responsibilities.
Establishing a strong & desirable family culture is not easy, but it is possible…if we are focused and purposeful!
With determination, prayer, and faithful action, you too can create a vibrant, thriving family culture in your home that can glorify Christ in the world around us!
Cultivating a Christ-Centered Family Culture in Your Home
If we ever want to be obedient to the great commission, we need to start in our own homes.
Sadly, the closer you get to home, the less intriguing “ministry” seems to most folks.(MOM’s YOU SET THE STAGE HERE)
The mundane.
The unglorified.
The everyday.
But what if we could transform our family culture into the springboard upon which the gospel message is witnessed into the world?
What if we could (BY THE GRACE & MERCY OF GOD ALONE) ….
Make disciples of our children.
Teach them to obey God’s Word.
Show them the value of service.
raise strong people of character who are not ashamed to be different than the world!
The first step of establishing a Christ-like family culture is creating a mission statement or motto for your family.
Ours is pretty simple, “Love others more than yourself & be a good testimony to the world”
It almost sounds too simple, doesn’t it? But it works for us!
When my little kids are having a problem, I simply ask if they are, “Loving others more than themselves”? “Are you being foolish or wise”…then you have the opportunity to talk with them about how they want to make wise choices and not foolish choices.
when my older children are going into town to run errands, working on a job-site together during the week, or spending a few days in another state at a church meeting…I can simple say our family motto and pray with them and I know by doing that they are reminded “who we are as a family, what we stand for, and how they represent our family and more importantly the LORD JESUS CHRIST”.
This reminder doesn’t solve all our problems, but it does help us move our family in a forward direction whenever problems arise.
This simple family mission statement or motto also helps us make decisions.
Will this decision further our mission to “LOVE OTHERS more than ourselves & be a good testimony to the world”?
Will it improve the quality of our family relationships-culture or detract from it?
The Impact of A simple Family Mission Statement or motto
we believe our family motto will produce the culture we desire.”
a simple motto within a family culture will produce passion and order in the home.
How to create A strong Christian Family Culture
When we got married, we talked about many wonderful ideas for our family. We wanted a welcoming home to family, friends and strangers!
we wanted a simple family life that would glorify the lord in all that we say and do!
Years later we discovered that the values, beliefs, and expectations we had for our family were getting lost in the shuffle of our daily life. We found ourselves in the rut of just surviving, barely getting through the week. we were both working outside the home and Our schedule was jammed with activities, sports, church, and extended family commitments. our meals times we rushed and the quality of our food was not the best. we felt like we didn’t have control over the direction our family was going in.
In an effort to bridge the gap between the life we were living and the life we’d hoped for, my husband and I set out on a leap of faith and left everything we knew about life behind us! We moved across the country to restart life in a much slower and simplistic way! i know…this is very extreme…but for our family we needed to take extreme measures in order to have a chance of living the simple life we so desired!
A family culture is the norms, values, beliefs, and customs that a family lives with. a family culture refers to how a family relates to one another, works together, and achieves goals. Family culture is the core beliefs of a family.
it’s how we honor each other, how we communicate, how we show affection, how we show compassion, how we relax together, work hard together, how we serve one another and challenge one another in the faith.
It’s the answer to… “That’s just the way we do things.”
Just like a fingerprint, it’s what makes your family unique.