All About Stewardship
Theme of the Week: Filling Your Family Role
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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Who Said It … Patrick Morley
Patrick Morley oversees Man in the Mirror—a ministry seeking to help men deepen their faith in Christ. The ministry has impacted millions of lives, and last year it trained more than forty thousand church leaders on how to more effectively disciple men. Having written sixteen books, Patrick is the author of A Man's Guide to Spiritual Disciplines. When not speaking, writing, or spending time with his wife, Patsy, he enjoys racing his 1974 Porche 911. The Morleys have two grown children and two granddaughters. What He Said … All About Stewardship
When God gives us the gift of a wife and maybe even children, he is giving us a sacred trust for which we are responsible. We are stewards of this gift. And a steward devotes 100 percent of his time, talent, and treasure to the glory of God. After God, our family deserves our time the most.
How do we steward our family time? Set your work hours and don't deviate. Personally, my cut off has always been 6 o'clock. I work like a dog until 6 o'clock and then I quit. I don't work nights, I don't work weekends. When I started to travel and speak, we had a family meeting and decided to limit my travel to five nights a month maximum.
A lot of men will compartmentalize their families while at work, but then come home and not compartmentalize their work. That's poor stewardship! Men, if you don't have enough time for your families, you can be 100 percent certain that you are not following God's will for your life. [continued 11/30]
Adapted from A Man's Guide to Spiritual Disciplines (Moody, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, teach me to be a good steward of my family time and convict me when I am not.
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