Hey, church, family. If you got your Bibles, we're going to be in Ephesians 6.

And if you're like a Bible nerd, you automatically went to like the whole armor of God.

But we're going to be in the very beginning of Ephesians chapter 6.

And I want to talk about the relationship between children and parents.

Now, if you're, if you don't have children, would you just please hang in here? It's like about 15 minutes

because I bet you know some children or I bet you have some parents or at least had some parents.

And so, again, I will specifically talk to parents about kids, but this is applicable to every,

all the humans that are part of the church. Because in the church, if you notice in the New Testament, there's a lot of

familial language here, brothers, sisters, Paul calls Timothy, his son, there's this kind of language.

And so here at our church at the Church of 1122, I need your help raising my two.

It's not just up to me and Gretchen. We are for sure the primary disciple makers and responsible

for the two kids at my house. But I, as an adult here, I am also responsible for the

discipleship of all the kids here at our church.

And I am eternally grateful for all of you that, all of you that spend your time,

volunteer your time as serve staff in our kids ministry, in our student ministry.

And so, anyway.

So there's a header in

Ephesians chapter five that oftentimes gets left out. In Ephesians chapter five, well,

the book of Ephesians goes like this. The first half is the gospel. It's like the gospel in the air,

gospel on the ground. There's like a, the individual,

like here's what Jesus did for you and you need to surrender your life to Jesus. Then there's

the cosmic implications of the gospel that he came to make all things new. Then in about chapter

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