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
Weird! Theme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Sunday, October 20, 2002
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September/October 200255Weird!Theme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Weird! Theme of the Week: Thriving on God's Word Sunday, October 20
Key Bible Verse: "Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will remain forever" (Matthew 24:35). Bonus Reading:Psalm 119:89-96
What is the strangest thing we do on Sunday morning?" I asked a group of Duke students about chapel worship.
"It's when the choir files in, and they bring in that great big book," one replied.
"Do you mean the Bible?"
"Yeah, that. And then a person in the procession opens it, puts it on the lectern, and looks toward the clergy, like he or she is saying, 'Here, work from this.'"
I thought to myself, He's right. We like to think that we live at the summit of human development. To sit silently while someone reads from an ancient book produced in a culture and language other than our own is weird. For modern people to gather around and be attentive to any source of wisdom other than that which is contemporary and self-derived is weird.
Christians are people of a book—God's truthful story of what life means and why we are here. We are people whose lives are shaped by reading, and then by submitting to the Good News that is the story of Jesus Christ.
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