Deploy to Family
Here’s your chance to add to the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep (or more accurately, “crowd sourcing”). In a couple weeks, we’ll be in a new series, Now More Than Ever, where we’ll be celebrating 50 years as a church. The focus of this series will be on carrying our cross and how we can fulfill the third D of our strategy (discover, develop, deploy). We’ll be highlighting 50 ways in 50 days on how to serve others. Let’s brainstorm for the week where we’ll deploy to our family.
So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of deploying (or serving) to family. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and share some of your genius with us.
This is the personal blog of Jeremy Jernigan. Husband, father, teaching pastor, and student of truth.
Really looking forward to this series and another 50 years for Central! Just want to make sure I’m clear on the topic…do you mean ways to serve our individual family, our church family, our global family, or all of the above?
Btw…miss the Bart Simpson pic. : (
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There will be 5 areas total. The first area is serving your individual family. Later, we’ll tackle friends, community, church, and world.
Theres a gentelman named Rob Sherwood who goes to central. He is a Marine and got out of the service about the same time as me. Seeing the escalation in the Middle East he felt the call to go back, after being out for some time, for more 2 years of enlisted service. Then he came back home to get married and signed back up for officer training and now continues to serve as an oficer in the Marines. Might be an interesting video interview to see how he ballances serving his family and his country. I’m not sure if he is even in town now, but he does come back often.
In serving others we all have to have the Heart of God living in our hearts. It is God that helps us to find out who we are in life. It is God that tells us to stay where we are for a time being, and also tells us when to go, and there are times that we’ve fallen because we are impatient in our human nature that we do not listen to God. We think we can do things on our own, but in the end we crash and burn. We need God more than ever to help us be what He wants us to be, and to help us reach our destination. The world will try to tell us we’ve failed, and there’s nothing to be done about it. Sure we’ll fail, but we will grow from it and rise above it all because God made a promise that never will He leave us nor forsake us. We have eternal life with Him. For now I am a servant of God seeking His heart to help better serve others, and when He says stay I stay, but when He says go I will go.
Thanks for clarifying, Jeremy.
I think a huge way we can serve our families is just by spending quality time with them. The example of Mary and Martha always hits home for me because I’m guilty of being a Martha with my family at times. I’m always struck by the fact that Martha was so caught up in serving and preparing the evening meal, while Mary was simply enjoying the fellowship of Jesus and the other disciples who may have been there. Martha was “doing” an important task, and likewise we as wives/mothers, husbands/ fathers have the important role of managing our households, serving and providing for our families. Yet it’s so easy to get consumed with the ‘doing’ mentality that in our good intentioned efforts to serve them, we miss out on the best part of just enjoying them and them enjoying us. I think all of us can relate to this. Many times the best way to serve our families is to let some things go in order to invest in the most important relationships.
More ideas to come…
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Jeremy, just as a suggestion that might be helpful for everyone is to include a deadline date of sorts for each open source topic you post so that people don’t submit their ideas too late.
Okay…back to some more ideas for deploying/serving our family ~
Clips:
There’s a scene from the movie “The Astronaut Farmer” in which a wife (Audrey) gives her approval for her husband, Charles to launch his spacecraft because their children believe in their father so much. It demonstrates belief, support in someone unconditionally, and self-sacrifice…some ways in which we serve our family.
http://www.wingclips.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16392&category_id=305
From The Simpsons: Homer sees his family as devils compared to the angels he sees in other families.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/29825/the-simpsons-family-from-hell
From King of the Hill: Hank Hill freaks out when he finds his wife and son wearing their underwear around the house in an attempt to get more intimate as a family (this is HAlarious!!)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/14443/king-of-the-hill-put-your-clothes-on
From King of the Hill: Bobby loves his family
http://www.hulu.com/watch/60411/king-of-the-hill-bobby-loves-his-family
Quotes:
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice–no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~ John Burroughs
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining? ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy
Songs:
“Too Bad” by Nickelback may be a stretch depending on the approach you decide to take with the topic, but it could also show what happens when a family breaks down and falls apart when it no longer serves one another as God intended.
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