Sacred KinshipPart One - Renewing an Ancient Perspective

Sacred Kinship

FamilyFriendshipMission

Kinship | An Introduction

“Kind”

Spheres

Kind

Covenant

Kinship | A Socio-Biblical Context

Group Identity

Ethos

Kinship | A Socio-Biblical ContextGroup Identity

Social Status

Father’s Name

Kinship | A Socio-Biblical ContextEthos

InsideOutside

SiblingRelationships

Signs ofHarmony

Sacred Kinship Thoughts in Scripture

To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. (1 Peter 3:8-9)

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1)

Sacred Kinship Thoughts in Scripture

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out foryour own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. (Philippians 2:1-4)

Sacred Kinship Thoughts in Scripture

If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8)

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity. (1 Timothy 5:1-2)

Sacred Kinship Thoughts in Scripture

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother—which is the first commandment with a promise—that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. (Ephesians 6:1-3)

Sacred Kinship Thoughts in Scripture

And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them. (Acts 4:32)

Sacred KinshipPart One - Renewing an Ancient Perspective