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Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church

Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church. THE FORMULA FOR DISASTER: Responsibilities competing for my time… + Personal interests competing for my time… = more than 24/7.

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Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church

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  1. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church

  2. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church

  3. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church THE FORMULA FOR DISASTER: Responsibilities competing for my time… + Personal interests competing for my time… = more than 24/7

  4. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Importance of ministry in Home: • Jesus: Matthew 15:4ff • 1 Timothy 3 – requirement for elders & deacons • Ephesians 5 & 6; Colossians 3 Importance of ministry in Church: • Epistles (letters to churches) – Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12-14; 2 Corinthians 5; Ephesians 4; Colossians 3-4

  5. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Importance of ministry at Work: Ephesians 4:28; Colossians 3:23; 1 Thessalonias 4 & 5; 2 Thessalonians 3

  6. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Looking for balance? What is balance? How would you know if you found it?

  7. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Looking for balance? What is balance? • Consistently investing more attention to your most important relationships & responsibilities… How would you know if you found it?

  8. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Looking for balance? What is balance? • Consistently investing more attention to your most important relationships & responsibilities… How would you know if you found it? • Feeling certainwhat you believe is most important is reflected by what you prioritize and schedule. • Sense of peace… no guilt…

  9. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Matthew 6:25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?... 32 “…for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Looking for balance? What is balance? • Consistently investing more attention to your most important relationships & responsibilities… How would you know if you found it? • Feeling certainwhat you believe is most important is reflected by what you prioritize and schedule. • Sense of peace… no guilt…

  10. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed…10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; 11 you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God. Looking for balance? What is balance? • Consistently investing more attention to your most important relationships & responsibilities… How would you know if you found it? • Feeling certainwhat you believe is most important is reflected by what you prioritize and schedule. • Sense of peace… no guilt…

  11. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church John 10:10 “…I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. Looking for balance? What is balance? • Consistently investing more attention to your most important relationships & responsibilities…

  12. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer • He decides what walking with Him looks like

  13. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer

  14. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer

  15. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer Psalm 100:3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

  16. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

  17. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

  18. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer • He offers a personal & eternal relationship with Him – your choice John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

  19. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer • He offers a personal & eternal relationship with Him – your choice Colossians 1:9 …we have not ceased to pray for you & to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom & understanding, 10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work & increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness & patience

  20. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer • He offers a personal & eternal relationship with Him – your choice • If you have a relationship – do you compartmentalize or allow Him to reign in every area?

  21. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church DESIGN PRINCIPLES • We have a Designer • He offers a personal & eternal relationship with Him – your choice • He decides what walking with Him looks like; we choose to or not Psalm 25:10 10 All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. Galatians 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

  22. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church We receive God’s ongoing guidance & power by walking with Him Jesus: John 15:1-17 Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

  23. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY Goal: for them to see the love of God in you and experience it through you. Desired result: for them to realize they are not the center of the universe, God is. And they pursue Him as the center of theirs.

  24. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  25. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  26. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  27. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  28. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  29. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church INVESTING IN THE FAMILY • Impossible apart from your and their ongoing walk with God • Impossible apart from consistent, regular relational investment • Impossible to do without tension • Impossible apart from wise counsel • Impossible without flexibility as go through life stages, etc.

  30. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church Like packing the trunk: biggest things first! • Walk with God (all means of grace) • Family/spouse times • Career • Exercise • House/yard/car care • Hobbies/entertainment

  31. Radical Grace compels Radical Love The world H O B B Y ENTERTAINMENT CAREER HOUSE CARE FAMILY “Walking with God” Exercise Friends Extended Fam Yard Car care The world

  32. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church • What are your greatest hopes for your family? Fears? • Write out your highest values & priorities. • Write out a time-budget – a typical week (in reality) • Does #3 reflect #2? • Is your attention to lesser things taking precedence over walking with God and family?

  33. Balancing Ministry in the Home and Church RESOURCES • Bible • Christian Growth class – begins Sept. 17th • “The Family Life of a Christian Leader” by Ajith Fernando • “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Steven Covey • XSI 2015 “Serving Christ through Life’s Stages and Shifting Priorities& “Stewarding Your Family” • https://www.xenos.org/essays/balancing-home-church-ministry - Doug Patch

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