{"id":1238,"date":"2019-09-09T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:09:43","slug":"gods-ordained-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/gods-ordained-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Ordained Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor\nWarren Wiersbe writes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cEach new generation must learn what God has done for His people so that they will obey His Word and trust Him for the future.\u00a0 When you have a living faith in a living God, the past is not \u2018dead history.\u2019 It throbs with living reality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis the heart of the Genesis Family Ministry Program: strengthening church\nleaders, in order that they might encourage and equip parents as the primary\ndisciplers of their children, remembering that the family is God\u2019s ordained\ninstitution for passing faith from one generation to the next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We find inspiration and instruction in passages such as the one below from Psalm 78:1-8:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen, O my people, to my instruction;<br> Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.<br> I will open my mouth in a parable;<br> I will utter dark sayings of old,<br> Which we have heard and known,<br> And our fathers have told us.<br><strong>We will not conceal them from their children,<br> But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,<br> And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.<br> <\/strong>For He established a testimony in Jacob<br> And appointed a law in Israel,<br><strong>Which He commanded our fathers<br> That they should teach them to their children,<br> That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,<br> That they may arise and tell them to their children,<br> That they should put their confidence in God<br> And not forget the works of God,<br> But keep His commandments,<br> <\/strong>And not be like their fathers,<br> A stubborn and rebellious generation,<br> A generation that did not prepare its heart<br> And whose spirit was not faithful to God.\u00a0 <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Warren Wiersbe writes, \u201cEach new generation must learn what God has done for His people so that they will obey His Word and trust Him for the future.\u00a0 When you have a living faith in a living God, the past is not \u2018dead history.\u2019 It throbs with living reality.\u201d This is the heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ea-development"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/family-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/family-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}