Commandment #4

Question 1

Commandement #4

Answer 1

“Honor Your Father and Your Mother”

Question 2

Nature of the Fourth Commandment

Answer 2

• A bridge between the two greatest commandments (to love God and neighbor)
• Sacred in meaning, because through our parents’ love, we come to experience God’s love for us

Question 3

Obstacles to the Fourth Commandment

Answer 3

• Not all parents are responsible
• Children distancing from parents as part of growing up which is not handled by parents with care
• Generation gap
• Parental absence

Question 4

Nature of the Family

Answer 4

• Family is a covenant- founded on love as reflected in God’s covenant with Israel
• Family is a domestic Church- this is where we first learn our faith and taught what is right and wrong
• Family is the basic unit of society- this is where we practice our rights and duties as citizen of our nation

Question 5

• Is the seedbed of life
• Where we first learn about life
• Its value and significance, sanctity, and mystery

Answer 5

Family

Question 6

It creates and
sustains the basic
community we
need to become
and survive as
persons

Answer 6

Covenant relationship

Question 7

The basic unit
of Christian
life

Answer 7

Domestic Church

Question 8

Family gratitude
and continually
nourishes the
existence and
development of
society

Answer 8

Foundation for civil

Society

Question 9

“1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a
promise), 3 that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. 4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Answer 9

Eph. 6:1-4

Question 10

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Answer 10

Proverbs 1:8-9