Household of God imagery uses family, house, children, brothers, and household language to describe belonging, care, order, and covenant responsibility among God’s people.
Household of God imagery uses family, house, children, brothers, and household language to describe belonging, care, order, and covenant responsibility among God’s people.
A covenant-family imagery pattern in which God’s people are portrayed as the household, family, children, or domestic community of God, emphasizing filial relation to the Father, sibling relation among believers, and ordered faithfulness within the church.
These examples show how Household of God Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
my brother and sister and mother
Jesus uses family language to identify those who do the will of God as His true household.
my Father’s house
House imagery gives comfort by depicting secure dwelling with the Father.
Spirit of adoption, heirs
Family imagery expresses sonship, assurance, and inheritance with Christ.
household of faith
The church is pictured as a household with special obligations of care.
members of the household of God
Household language explains Gentile inclusion and belonging in God’s people.
family in heaven and on earth
Family naming imagery connects God’s fatherhood with the identity of His people.
household of God
Household imagery frames church conduct, order, and confession.
Christ over God’s house
Household imagery contrasts Moses as servant with Christ as Son over the house.
household of God
Household language identifies the community where judgment and purification begin.
children of God
Family imagery magnifies the Father’s love and the believer’s present identity.
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