RESTORING HEARTS

The Hebrew word for turn is shub meaning to turn back or to restore relationship.

The Greek word for turn is epistrepho meaning to turn unto or to restore relationship

The Hebrew word for parents is aboth meaning ancestors.  Note: in the Hebrew culture, the ancestral line was through the fathers.  Thus the King James translation uses the word “fathers.”

The Greek word for parents is pateres meaning ancestors.  Again, the King James translation uses the word “fathers.”

Illustrations from Mission Travels:

1.     Chinese sister: “My husband was a good minister but a bad

husband/father

2.     Chinese brother: “How can I be a husband/father under my circumstances?”

3.     Chinese sister: “Now I know why my husband is not a Christian.”

4.     Noah and his father.

5.     Noah and his son.

6.     “Fatherlessness” in the Philippines… “Absentee fathers.”

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

8.     Biblical account of the Prodigal son who turned back and was restored to his father!