Pastor Joel Laswell

Message GO12-2: ”The Home and Church” part two

From the beginning of the family unit in Eden, to the family circle today, we can see the blue print of God’s governing principles—His organization for the church.

Message GO12-1: ”The Home and Church” part one

In our previous studies we have come to understand that like the Sanctuary and its services teach us about the Gospel and mission of Christ, the creation and organization of the family circle is a model that teaches us about the government and character of God.

Message GO11-2: ”Jewels for His Crown” part two

God has given us the ability to create children so as to learn more about His character and about our own character. In that learning process there are specific responsibilities that God has required of parents. How we live as Christian parents and raise our children is how we will associate with members in the church. This is a part of true Gospel Order that God requires for families and the church.

Message GO11-1: ”Jewels for His Crown” part one

We have previously taken a good look at the roles of men/husbands/fathers, as well as women/wives/mothers and there is one more area concerning the family circle that needs to be addressed before we begin comparing family order with that of church order—family organization with church organization. We need to take a look at the role that children have in the family circle and what that means for church order.

Message GO10-3: ”A Helpmate” part three

When we establish righteous habits, we will do them without even thinking! So let us become educated to the righteous will of God concerning our roles as men and women, then we can lay out goals to change what is out of order in our life, and by God’s grace establish right habits that bring glory to our Creator!

Message GO10-2: ”A Helpmate” part two

While husbands and fathers have been given primary responsibility for the leadership of their families including their children, wives and mothers are to be "workers at home," meaning manager of the household. Their home and their children are to be their priority—in contrast to the feminist emphasis today on careers and jobs for women outside the home--a role reversal that goes against God's ideal plan. Now, don't misunderstand what I am saying here. There is nothing wrong with women working outside the home unless it conflicts with the biblical responsibilities they have in managing the home.

Message GO10-1: ”A Helpmate” part one

Each role in the family unit—Husband, Wife, and Children—teaches us something about God’s ideal in the organization of the church. We began looking at the roles and responsibilities of the family unit with the understanding that church duties first begin at home. One of the greatest problems in the family firm today, marriage specifically, is that the differences between the male and the female have only been taught from a pure physical point of view... mainly an evolutionary based view. The truth that God created man and woman with more than physical differences is not taught much at all in the world and very little in the church--not in any detail. Accepting such a cultural fallacy is one of the greatest failings of the church and thus a major cause in the dysfunction of the family unit.

Message GO9-2: ”Leader of the Home” part two

Please notice that among all the levels of authority in the universe, God has set man in the place of leadership over his own home and family. The husband is to be the leader of the home. God never assigned the wife to be the head of the home. Woman was not made for the role, neither do the majority of women really desire it. Men must recognize their proper role in the home if there is to be true Gospel order.

Message GO9-1: ”Leader of the Home” part one

Each role in the family unit--father, mother, children--teaches us something about God's ideal in the organization of the church. So I want to spend some time looking at the roles and responsibilities of the family unit with the understanding that church duties should first begin at home.

Message GO8: ”It Starts at Home”

True church unity and organization, biblically speaking, starts at home. It started at Creation as God ordered everything according to His will, which is perfect order. God, not the author of confusion, demonstrated Gospel Order in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.