Mom, that one family is so strict. They aren't even allowed to say sh**. Hey, what's your mouth?

Church, church, church. All they do is go to church. Can't they miss just once?

They won't go to the movie because they say there's bad stuff in it. What is wrong with them?

We know people make fun of our family, but we can't worry about what people think. We're more concerned about what God thinks.

Well, hey, everybody, at all of our life churches, network churches, and those of you from countries all over the world at church online.

Today, we're wrapping up our series called Bless This Home. I'm so glad to have all of you with us. If maybe you missed the other weeks, let me tell you what we're doing.

We're actually looking at the teaching of Jesus in Matthew chapter 5, in a little section that we call the Beatitudes, where Jesus gave us eight different qualities of those who would be blessed.

And although Jesus was talking to everybody, what we're doing for the purpose of this series is we're applying his teaching to our homes.

Bless this home, because the reality is, if you look around today, at so many homes where we live, most people wouldn't say, man, they're really blessed.

They've got a blessed marriage. Their kids are blessed. And so what we're doing is we're asking God to teach us to live according to His Word so that He would bless our homes.

If you're taking notes, let me give you kind of a key thought that we've been looking at every single week. It's kind of a paradigm shift about how we think about faith in our families.

If you're taking notes or if you know this, let's go ahead and say it aloud, what are we not? All of our churches, I need everybody to help out, what are we not?

We are not just a Christian home, but what are we? We are a Christ-centered family. Everybody, all of our churches, you all in Albany, New York, let's say it aloud, what are we not?

We're not just a Christian home, what are we? We are a Christ-centered family. Now, some of you may be new and you're saying, what's the difference?

What's the difference between a Christian home and a Christ-centered family? Unfortunately today, the word Christian doesn't mean what it used to mean.

In fact, where I live to be a Christian is almost a default decision. There are tons and tons and tons of people who, if you said, hey, what are you when it comes to faith, they'd be like, well, I guess I'm a Christian.

I'm not anything else, so I must be a Christian. And there's a real big portion of the population in my country who would fall into a category that I would call cultural Christians, or almost like, you know, we're Christian in name only.

Some 80% or so of those in our country say, yeah, we're Christians. If you looked on their families and you didn't know what they said, and you said, you know, are they Christians, you might go, I'm not sure.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, there's no evidence to tell me they are. I just don't know.

If, though, we take a different title and we take it seriously. And we say, we're not just a Christian home cut in the cultural sense, but we are Christ-centered in all we do.

In other words, Jesus isn't just a convenient part of our life. The guy we call on when we need him and go to church on Easter or whenever we feel like it.

But if he's not just a part of our lives, but truly the center of our lives, then there will be evidence to those who look on.

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