Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Everybody Does It Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts Sunday, May 19, 2002
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May/June 200253"Everybody Does It"Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts "Everybody Does It" Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts Sunday, May 19
Key Bible Verses: I am determined not to sin in what I say . …I have not wavered from following you (Psalm 17:3, 5). Bonus Reading:Jeremiah 9:3–9
Steve and his wife sold their businesses, he enrolled in graduate school out of state, and they purchased a home near the university. When they went to close the mortgage on the new house, the mortgage company wanted him to falsify some financial information.
"I can't do that," he told them.
"It's no big deal. Everybody does it," was the reply.
"I don't think you understand; I can't do that."
"It just goes in the file; nobody will ever even look at it. Besides, if you don't, then we can't give you the loan."
Steve believed God had led them to return to school. To complete the move he'd have to compromise his integrity. The decision was straighforward: "Who do I put first in this decision—my own desires or Christ?"
To put himself first would have been easy. Who'd know, who'd even care? Steve decided to put Jesus first, before "personal peace" and affluence. He returned to school locally instead of moving out of state on a lie. And he couldn't be more at peace.
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