{"id":3125,"date":"2022-10-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2024-01-18T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T03:06:34","slug":"the-family-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/the-family-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to welcome you to the Tanner Church of Christ. Some have been saved this week and according to the scriptures have<br>been added to the church (Acts 2:47). I\u2019m constantly amazed at the misconceptions of what the church is when I talk to various people.<br>What is the church?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The church is described in the New Testament in a lot of ways, but perhaps the best known is the family of God. We all long to be a part<br>of a healthy family, to have people that love us, care for us, and help us in times of need. We are the children of God (1 Jhn 3:2). Christians<br>are born of God (1 Jhn 5:1). We are begotten of God (1 Pet 1:3). As Christians we have been born again into the family of God (Jhn<br>3:4-5), and therefore we are called children of God (1 Jhn 3:1). We are brothers and sisters in Christ \u201cwhoever does the will of my Father<br>in heaven is my brother and sister and mother\u201d (Mt 12:50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What should one experience in God\u2019s family? I will mention only a few:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Love<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIn sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart\u201d (1 Pet 1:22).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBy this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another\u201d (Jhn 13:35).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBy this we know love, because He laid down his life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren\u201d (1 Jhn 3:16).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Compassion<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe members should have the same care for one another\u2026.if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it, or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it\u201d (1 Cor 12:25-26).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kindness<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBe kind to one another, tenderhearted\u201d (Eph 4:32).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every Christian is to have brotherly kindness (2 Pet 1:7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Patience<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are to be bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph 4:2-3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Forgiveness<\/span> (Eph 4:32; Col 3:13).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Help and support<\/span> (1 Jhn 3:17; Gal 6:10).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This list could obviously be much longer, but just based on the six things I have listed, I think we could all agree that any family who<br>shares these traits is going to be a happy family. When the Lord\u2019s church is what it ought to be, it is a wonderful family. Some may not<br>have always experienced these traits in a church, but all we can do is make sure we\u2019re being what we should be. The church can always<br>be made better as you and I make our lives better by becoming what God would have us to be. Thank you for being here today. You<br>being here is an encouragement to us and we hope that we can encourage you as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to welcome you to the Tanner Church of Christ. Some have been saved this week and according to the scriptures havebeen added to the church (Acts 2:47). I\u2019m constantly amazed at the misconceptions of what the church is when I talk to various people.What is the church? The church is described in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/the-family-of-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Family of God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","category-marks-messages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}