Family Dialogue: How to Live Peacefully with Your Siblings

Pastor Zam Khai

September 20, 2017

Sermon Text: Matthew 18:1–20

Disciples’ Question: “Who is the Greatest in the Kingdom?”

Jesus’ Answers:

I.  Indirect Answer (Entrance Requirement) Childlike humble faith

II. Direct Answer (Positional Requirement) Childlike humble attitude

A. Become a Homeborn Child of the Family

B. Behave like an Honorable Child of the Family

a.  Humble Attitude

b.  Hospitable Acts

C. Behave Like a Healthy Child of the Family

a.  Do Not Cause the Members of Your Body to Sin

(1)  Maimed Hands

(2) Maimed Eyes

b.  Actively Seek Out the Wandering Sibling of the Family

c.  Actively Try to Reconcile with the Offending Sibling of the Family

(1) Talk privately with the sibling

(2) Take two or three witnesses to the sibling

(3) Take the matter to the Church