Associations

There are those who will not increase what God is doing through you. There are many who unknowingly decrease God's plan in your life.

Not everyone in your life is ordained of God. Not everyone on your face book enjoys what God wants to do in your life.

Years ago in my library, I pulled a 1965 Sunday School curriculum book from GPH and was astonished to see what it said. "Don't just sanctify your bodies but sanctify your friendships". I was taken back. We don't hear that type of preaching much anymore. We think that everyone is acceptable to be friends with. God gave us wisdom, we just have to use it.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." Proverbs 13:20

Take heed to thyself, let thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou go est, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. Exodus 34:12

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3

"But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one do not to eat." I Corinthians 5:11

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners." I Corinthians 15:33

A dear precious lady once said to me while I was young, "You can be friendly with everyone, just learn not to be friends with everyone." At the time I thought that was rather harsh but later in my adult life I realized that everyone has a motive. Those motives may be pure or they may be polluted, it is up to you to discern what their motives are up too.

Watch and pray over your associations. Someone may be getting ready to drag your speed down. Someone may be getting ready to accelerate you into greatness. Don't live in fear but trust that God will reveal the right relationships to you today.

Family

The following statement was adopted in 2004 by the Word for the World Family Church board as our official statement regarding the family.

Due to the present day attack upon the family in many various forms, the acceptance of greatly loosened moral standards, the subsequent breakdown of the home in the overwhelming ration of divorce and its resulting hazards upon children and society in general, and due to the recent White House Conference on the Family where the participants could not define the modern family according to biblical standards, We the members of Word for the World Family Church hereby declare our position on the family.

Whereas "the biblical family" is defined as a male (husband) and a female (wife)coming together in legal fashion and becoming one, both spiritually and physically (Gen 2:24) and the resulting children that come from that union either biologically or by legal adoption becoming part of the family.

We, therefore, wish to reaffirm our belief that the "family" according to this definition is God-ordained God sanctioned and God blessed.

We wish to state that any other union of a couple or group does not constitute a "biblical family" (Rom 1:26-27).

Furthermore, we recommend that the pastors and church leaders of Word for the World Family Church continue to speak out very strongly in favor of the biblical standard for the family and oppose just as fervently those voices that would do violence or weaken God's plan for the Biblical Model Family.