Family Life Class 
 Upcoming Study Theme
You can find plenty of advice on how to get rich. But where do you
learn to BE rich? And how do you define "Rich" in the first place?
In this four-part series, Andy Stanley moves beyond the "get
rich" mentality and explains God's instructions for the vast majority of us who are already blessed with more than we need. 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Proverbs 18:11
Ecclesiastes 5:10 Matthew 6:24
Here's a look at each part:
- Part 1, Congratulations -- Who is rich? If you live in America, you are. (You're more wealthy than almost all the people in the world.)
- Part 2, Daddy's Money -- Who are you trusting in -- God or your money?
- Part 3, Dollar Cost Living -- We should all be rich in good deeds and be generous and willing to share. We can serve others by investing regular amounts of time at regular intervals (like dollar cost averaging with investments) volunteering to help a whole host of charitable organizations.
- Part 4, Diversify -- Moving your treasure from earth to heaven.
Operating Guidelines for Family Life Class
- Our mission is to help people experience the individual growth and character development necessary for a healthy marriage and a closer relationship with their Heavenly Father, their spouse, their family and the community in which they live.
- It is not left to the leaders of the class to "fix" the people in the class but rather we present material and facilitate programs that will hopefully cause people to be personally convicted by the Holy Spirit to develop character and work on their own issues, and by doing so grow closer to their spouse, their family and to their Heavenly Father.
- This class exits to enhance, encourage and facilitate a more functional and Christ centered relationships within the family unit, the church and this community. It is one of our goals to provide a safe environment in this class where this can take place.
- We encourage the application of grace, forgiveness, unconditional love and unconditional respect to the disconnects, dysfunctions and hard feelings that will surface from time to time within a marriage, the family unit and the church family.
- We encourage individuals to deal with and focus on "their own baggage" and not that of your significant other's or anyone else. Put another way, "deal with your own stuff." To help in doing this avoid statements that include the words; you, he, she, always and never.
- Your own journey and story is only yours to share, no one else's. This implies that the individual has sole "story" telling rights to their story and not some one else. (AKA: confidentiality.) So the experiences, insights and personal struggles that are shared in this class need to stay in this class.
- Marriage is a school from which we shall never graduate in this life.
- Marriage is more about being the right person than marrying the right person.
- The process of learning and growing requires not only hearing and applying knowledge in a humble manner but also forgetting and then remembering those principles again. (Recall Proverbs 24:16, Though a righteous person falls seven times, they rise again.) Learn to be as patent with yourself as God Has been with you.
- In this class we look for the principles of communication and relationships. Those principles we list in the handouts provided. It is our desire to provide the best presentations available on any given topic, hence we look at a wide array of presenters that come from various back grounds, some times Adventist, and some times not. Often in these presentations there will be points of doctrine (touched upon tangentially) that do not coincide with the beliefs of the Adventist church. It is our belief that the individuals in this class are mature and intelligent and will compare what is presented to the scriptures and decide for themselves on what is truth and what is not.
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