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
'Come and Get Me' Theme of the Week: Sacrifice or Safety? Friday, February 20, 2004
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Men of IntegrityJanuary/February 2004'Come and Get Me'Theme of the Week: Sacrifice or Safety?Friday, February 2071
Key Bible Verses: Don't be intimidated by your enemies&… . We are in this fight together (Philippians 1:28, 30). Bonus Reading:Philippians 1:27–30
John Bunyan knew that if he showed up at the Bedfordshire, England, meeting house that Sunday in 1660 to preach, a constable would be waiting with a warrant for his arrest. Now that the Royalists were back in power, anyone not licensed by the state church no longer had the right to preach. But Bunyan reasoned, "What will my weak and newly converted brethren think of it, but that I was not so strong in deed as I was in word? If I should run, I might make them afraid to stand. I will not stop speaking the Word of God."
The judges sent Bunyan to jail. His first stint was for six years. Then he was in and out of jail for six years more. But he never budged. "If I come to any place where people are met together," he wrote, "I will, according to the best of my skill and wisdom, exhort and counsel them to seek after the Lord Jesus Christ, for the salvation of their souls. He who stops preaching the Word of God for fear of the excommunication of men is already excommunicated of God, and shall in the day of judgment be counted a traitor to Christ. If I was out of prison today, I would preach the gospel again tomorrow."
–Lawrence Kimbrough in Words to Die For
My Response: I'll know my commitment to Christ outweighs my fears when &…
Thought to Apply: Wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
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