Complicated

BREAKING GENERATIONAL CHAINS

Pastor Hope Flask

November 23, 2025

Main Scriptures: Philippians 3:7-14

Additional Scriptures: Hebrews 12:1, Exodus 20:5-6, Galatians 6:7-8, Ezekiel 36:25-27, Romans 8:14-17, Luke 8:19-21, 9:23

POINTS:

• Roles we can play in a family unit: golden child, hero, mascot, patient, scapegoat, lost child, enabler, and parentified child

• Stay in your lane: run the race that Jesus has marked out for you

• Break the generational chains.

• We all have a past, and we will need to recognize our pasts going back three to four generations.

• When we sin, we sow a pattern of behavior that will likely be repeated in the next generation. We reap what we sow.

• Blessings and curses are passed down.

• In order to get past our past: 1. Recognize broken behaviors
  2. Forgive and take responsibility for our part

• Recognizing the script is not the same as blaming others for it.

• “Christianity is not out to make nicer people, but to make new people.” -CS Lewis

• Christians have a new father, name, inheritance, and family.

• To grow in Christ, we will need to be connected to a healthy family of God.

• Application:

  • Recognize blessings and curses passed down from family of origin and previous church experience

    • What is one pattern you want to change?

  • Forgive ancestors and self

  • Own the part you played

  • Pray and ask the Holy Spirit for help and include others