House Blessings: Blessing and Defense of the Christian Home

Shaver, Ross Patrick

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House Blessings: Blessing and Defense of the Christian Home

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Shaver, Ross Patrick. House Blessings: Blessing and Defense of the Christian Home. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67778f1c-e06f-4d18-99de-c22de72e5ef6.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

S. R. Patrick. House Blessings: Blessing and Defense of the Christian Home. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67778f1c-e06f-4d18-99de-c22de72e5ef6

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Shaver, Ross Patrick. House Blessings: Blessing and Defense of the Christian Home. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67778f1c-e06f-4d18-99de-c22de72e5ef6.

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Shaver, Ross Patrick

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Abstract

As a battle wages for people’s eternal soul, the Christian home becomes a battlefield where sin, death, and the devil often have a foothold into our personal lives. In the Church’s wisdom, taken from the Lord’s promise of peace and Christ’s presence, the Rite of Blessing of a Home can be a valuable means of delivering God’s blessing to His people. A house blessing is a cleansing of sin and unrighteousness, an exorcism of the devil, invoking God’s presence in the home, and a salutary application of the deliverance of Christ crucified and risen for sinners. In the pastoral visitation to the Christian home and in the extraordinary care of souls, pastors should regularly bless God’s people by means of the Word of God and prayer. Hence, the Rite of Blessing a Home is a tangible application of God’s word of blessing upon God’s people and the place in which they dwell. This project examines the practice and implementation of blessing the Christian home with the hopes of establishing a yearly tradition each Epiphanytide. An underutilized rite in Lutheranism necessitated preaching and teaching on the history, purpose, and intention of blessing, pastoral visitation, the Christian home, and spiritual warfare. House blessings were then conducted during the Epiphany season. This project provides guidance, encouragement, and direction for pastors to offer and conduct house blessings for those under his pastoral care to extend the grace of God and sanctify the Christian home, provide an blessed atmosphere for Christian virtue and vocation to thrive, and strengthen the relationships between pastor and his people.

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