Worship Guide
Message Notes
Cypress Creek Church
June 29, 2025 | Pastor David Bamberry
Imperfect Family: Getting Real About the Health of Your Home
Guardians of a Generation
1. If our Kids were Perfect they would have no need of us!
Proverbs 22:6 NLT: Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
2. The Goal of Parenting is Honor, not Obedience.
Ephesians 6:1-3 NLT: Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord,[a] for this is the right thing to do. Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
● Honor: To show high regard and respect. To count as valuable, to esteem, value, honor or to revere.
● We begin with Obedience and Grow them to honor.
Galatians 3:24 NLT: Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
Law Spirit
Death & Bondage Life & Liberty
Obedience Honor
Duty & Obligation Love & Service
Parent controlled Self-controlled
3. Rules without Relationship = Rebellion.
● Honor rises from a Relationship.
● Instruction without explanation = Frustration
4. As Parents we set the Tone for the Relationship.
Ephesians 6:4 TLB: And now a word to you parents. Don’t keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful. Rather, bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord himself approves, with suggestions and godly advice.
Colossians 3:21 TLB: Fathers, don’t scold your children so much that they become discouraged and quit trying.
● Discipline for a Purpose.
● One of the Strongest Forms of Discipline is Positive Reinforcement.
● Parent by Faith, not by fear.
5. Do you Treat your Son or Daughter as a Child, an Adult or as a “Tweenager”?
I Corinthians 13:11 NLT: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
