2. Describe the modern family. Contrast our modern families with the biblical statements of Paul in Galatians 6:1-5 and Ephesians 5:1—6:4.

4. What Happened to Our Families? The Biblical Model (Genesis 2:18-25) Marriage designed by God (Genesis 1:26) A divine institution that is pronoun specific Where things went wrong (Genesis 3) Children born after the Fall of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4) Christ is the Bridegroom, the Church is the Bride The Beginning

5. “The Disintegration of Traditional Family Structures and the Rise of Partnership Contracts, Parenting Contracts and Soul Families” by Celia Fenn

6. Many of you today living on the planet are in great pain because of the stresses and angers present in your families. Archangel Michael asks me to share the following information with you so that you can better understand why this is so, and where you are heading for in the future. The Traditional Family Unit The traditional nuclear family unit belongs to the past of the Planet. It was a structure developed to serve the interests of humanity in the past. The needs then were for power and protection - and so a system was developed that gave the male the role as protector. In return for this task he held power over the members of his family. However, humans have evolved to a point where equality between male and female is being recognized, and where the equality of being of children will soon be accepted as well. In this New Earth paradigm, the traditional nuclear family units with its hierarchical power structures has no place. It is disintegrating and falling away.

7. In this process, many of you feel confused and bewildered as you experience anger and pain. You wonder what you are doing "wrong" or why you cannot "heal" the situation. We tell you, beloved ones, there is nothing to heal. Only new choices to be made. New choices that will help you to create families and communities that are loving and supportive. Partnership Contracts and Parenting Contracts In the New Earth when a person desires to parent children he or she will enter a "Parenting Contract". This will be distinct and different from a "Partnership Contract" which will replace Marriage as a system of support and cohabitation. A Partnership Contract will be negotiated between two people who feel drawn to each other on a soul level and wish to live their lives together. Generally, this will involve some shared growth or work. A Partnership Contract may in turn lead to the negotiation of a Parenting Contract - but we wish you to understand that in the future parenting will not be limited to partnerships between male and female beings. Parenting will be open to any loving being who feels that giving physical expression or nurturing to an incarnating soul is a calling for them.

8. A Parenting Contract is primarily between the Parent and the soul of the incoming Child. However, if two people have agreed to become biological parents they may enter into the contract as Co-Parents. The contract requires love and support and mutual respect and care. Also mutual recognition of the gifts each party brings to the creation of the child/parent unit. And the equality of these gifts. A single person may also enter into a parenting contract as a single parent. In this case the contract is between the child and the single parent as sole caregiver and nurturer. In Parenting contracts there is no hierarchy or power structures - only a mutual exchange of love and wisdom in which each party acknowledges a role to support the other.

9. The parent provides physical nurturance and life skills for living on the planet in the present. The child brings advanced spiritual gifts and evolutionary impetus to the parents. Each gifts the other with their presence and their teachings. Soul Families Soul Families will in turn create a new conception of community. While New Earth society will be based on the belief in the "One" and in planetary unity, people will still live on different "levels" of awareness for quite a while still. http://starchildglobal.com/starchild/contracts.html

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12. Modern v. Post-Modern Families: Similarities Similarities between post-modern and pre-modern families http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu13se/uu13se03.htm

13. Modern v. Post-Modern Families: Differences

14. Truth reminders . . . James 1:19-20 This you know, my beloved. But let every one be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

15. James 5:19-20 My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth, and one turns his back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

17. Issues Affecting Families: What About Christians struggling with homosexuality? That is a very important question considering the related turmoil going on around us. I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Everyone is entitled to be treated with respect and dignity, even those who are living in immoral circumstances. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejection toward those who are homosexual. We cannot hope to win others to Jesus Christ if we insult and wound them.

18. Remember, too, that Jesus was more compassionate toward the adulterous woman caught in the very act of intercourse — a capital offense in those days — than He was to hypocrites in the church. That is our model for how to respond to a person living in sin. Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don't know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility and fear.

25. 1 Timothy 2:8-12

27. Restoration: Galatians 6:1 Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. (NASB) Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. (NIV)