God's Will for Us

We started the night with more amazing food from Julie.  We are so blessed to have her with us (for more than just the food, ha).  After dinner, we moved into our next T4T lesson which emphasized the fact that God has a plan for us.  He is not finished with us after we are adopted into His family.  This week's lesson sparked a whole lot of discussion.

The lesson started with a few stories of how God saved people and immediately used them to save their families and/or friends.  This included Noah, Rahab, Cornelius, etc.  It occurred to us how strange several of these passages were in that once the head of a household had faith in God, there was no mention of any amount of time or prodding necessary to bring the family to faith in God as well.  This launched us into an awesome discussion about family structure and how wrong it is in the American culture that we encourage everyone to be independent.  Of course this makes it seem strange that a household could have one member to whom everybody submits!

We will soon have four young couples in our group and we are all committing to create a culture in our family that follows God's design.  We are convinced that creating a correct culture in the family is the best way to affect the culture of the nation at large.  We will submit to God - the Head of our heavenly household - for wisdom in this undertaking.

I reminded the group that, as a part of the T4T lessons, we are to challenge ourselves to share our testimony with five people every week and then use the T4T materials to help disciple any who accept God's adoption.  This might seem overwhelming, but the Spirit will lead us through it if we are obedient.  There were also some pretty clear confessions that we are not all spending daily time in God's Word.  Thus, we have added another challenge: to read the Bible every day.  We are thinking about perhaps reading the same stuff every week for a future study we could do.

Finally, God provided a mission for us this week.  We will be cleaning up Norwalk on Saturday morning!  See the calendar for details.  Next week will be some more T4T.

God Bless!