Family by James Hawkins

Family by James Hawkins

This 7 session study will explore how contemporary young adult Christians who are either living alone or in a family group may create or contribute to a supportive and nurturing family life.

Session titles include:

Defining Family--What is a family?

The Value of Family--Why should I care about family when I can make it on my own? Tensions between individuality and community, dependence or independence. Is family obsolete? What is the value of family for single people, friends, family life. What does it mean to be interdependent?

Family and Identity--What does family contribute to a person's identity? Do we create and/or inherit our identities?

Brokenness in the Family--What do functional and dysfunctional mean?

Characteristics of Healthy Families--What characteristics exist in healthy families who function in a variety of circumstances? Friendships? Two-income families? Long hours of employment? How does contemporary life work for or against family life?

Creating Healthy Families--How do families with children (traditional two-parent and single-parent) provide a supportive and nurturing family life for their children? How do couples without children build nurturing family life? How do single people build family that is nurturing and supportive? How do communities and institutions contribute to or detract from family life?

God's Family--What does it mean to look to family as an image of Contemporary Christian life? God as Parent? Mother? Father? Inclusivity? Multicultural? Family members who have passed on? Cloud of witnesses?

Hawkins, James: - James Hawkins is a pastor, currently serving in Smyrna, Delaware. A graduate of Northwestern University, Jim's first career was in journalism. After a short and exciting stint as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Southern California, he responded to God's calling him to pastoral ministry, a different kind of news business. He graduated from Wesley Theological Seminary and has served as a pastor in the Peninsula-Delaware Conference. In addition to his pastoral duties, Jim writes for FaithLink and is the author of Family: Finding Who We Are and How We Belong, a volume in the 20/30 Series for Young Adults. Jim is married to Kathleen, who is the executive director of The United Methodist Foundation in the Eastern Pennsylvania and Peninsula-Delaware conferences. In his free time, Jim loves music (particularly singing), cooking, eating Kathleen's much better cooking, and traveling.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780687027163
ISBN 10	0687027160
Title	Family
Author	James Hawkins
Series	20 30 Bible Study For Young Adults Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Abingdon Press
Year published	2004-03-01
Number of pages	80
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.