1. Leave
And
Cleave

2. Genesis 2:24 ASV
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

3. Your Family Roots
Your Personal Family
Your Children’s Family

4. John 15:5 CEV
I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me.

5. We are not God the Vine
Our kids are not our branches
They need to be allowed to grow

6. Healthy
Not
Healthy

7. LEAVING is not CLEAVING

8. The Story of 1st Free Youth Pastor
I Am Leaving
The Story of
1st Free Youth Pastor

9. Preparing for Departure

10. Don’t release son or daughter on unsuspecting future spouse.

11. John 15:5 CEV
I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me.

12. Spiritual Preparation for Leaving
Proverbs 22:5
Crooks walk down a road full of thorny traps.
Stay away from there!

13. Proverbs 22:3-7 CEV
3 When you see trouble coming, don’t be stupid and walk right into it—be smart and hide. 4 Respect and serve the Lord! Your reward will be wealth, a long life, and honor. 5 Crooks walk down a road full of thorny traps. Stay away from there! 6 Teach your children right from wrong, and when they are grown they will still do right. 7 The poor are ruled by the rich, and those who borrow are slaves of moneylenders.

15. How many years do you have to train?
Bed
Wetting
Potty Training

16. Proverbs 22:6 CEV
6 Teach your children     right from wrong,     and when they are grown they will still do right.

17. Deuteronomy 20:5 CEV
5 Then the tribal officials will say to the troops: If any of you have built a new house, but haven’t yet moved in, you may go home. It isn’t right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to live in your new house.

18. TRAIN HEBREW WORD = “CHANOKH”
Dedicating A New House

19. “The way he should go” -- Spiritually
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

20. 1 Kings 8:63 CEV Dedicate and Consecrate
Solomon and the people dedicated the temple to the Lord by offering twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep as sacrifices to ask the Lord’s blessing.

21. Dry or Wet, Sprinkle or Immerse Children’s Blessings
Dedication Dedication of Parents and Congregation
Infant Baptism Catholic Church welcomes into family and freedom from “original sin.”

22. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 CEV
6 Memorize his laws 7 and tell them to your children over and over again. Talk about them all the time, whether you’re at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting up in the morning

23. 2 Peter 1:5-8 ASV
5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; 6 and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness; 7 and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24. Leaving and Cleaving Parents and young adults both must be ready.
Cleaving: I accept you and reject all future alternative choices.

25. “Cleave” in Hebrew means aggressively hanging on

26. Marriage Foundation Cleaving
Friendship
Companionship
Closeness

27. “The Wiseman Built His House”
Matthew 7:24-27
“The Wiseman Built His House”

28. Table Sharing 1. Did those who raised you set a Christian example?
2. What one or two things could I do to set an example for nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren?
3. If married, are you “hanging on for dear life,” i.e., “cleaving”?