What is Virtue?
Why Families of Virtue?
Discover how Virtue transforms lives, homes, and hearts through putting on the image of Christ. Learn why virtue should be reclaimed from Christian history.
What is Virtue?
A virtue is a good quality of soul or disposition of that enables a person to live rightly before God and others. Virtue is more than occasionally doing good. It is about becoming the kind of person, formed by grace, Scripture, and practice to properly order loves and live in accordance with what is good, true, and beautiful.
Why Virtue Matters.
Virtue is how we reflect the Image of Christ in every day life. Like physical training for the body, virtue is intellectual training for the mind and moral training for the soul. Train yourself for godliness (1 Tim 4:7)
Virtue is Biblical
The fruit of the Spirit are the actions that the Spirit brings forth in our lives (Gal 5:22-23) after putting away the works of the flesh (5:19). Jesus describes the blessed life (Mt 5:2-12) with beatitudes or actions that bring blessing. Both fruit of the Spirit and the beatitudes of Christ are built upon the habits and training of virtue. A person trained in vices rots the fruit and rejects the beatitudes.
Our Approach
Discipleship through family instruction with character formation. Virtue must be taught (instruction), caught (modeled), and sought (loved). We seek grace-centered obedience, not legalism or moralism.
The Classic Virtues
Trusting in God’s character, promises, and works as the foundation for life.
Confident expectation that God will fulfill His promises for the future.
Choosing to seek and act for the good of God and others before yourself.
Understanding reality accurately through learning and experience.
The ability to grasp truth quickly and see connections between ideas.
Skill in living according to God’s truth, applying knowledge rightly in action.
Sound judgment that chooses the right means to the right end.
Giving to God and others what is rightfully due to them.
Steadfast courage to endure hardship and face danger for what is right.
Self-control that keeps desires and pleasures within proper bounds.
Biblical not Secular
Secular organizations emphasize self-help, personal improvement and a vague morality. We emphasize Christ-centered transformation grounded in the qualities (virtues) of humanity given through the image of God.
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