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June 28, 2004
home sweet home
so the other night at "church" (i'm not sure how to describe our bible study/grill out/frisbee time at Doug's but we will just roll with it) we were discussing 1 Timothy 5. i ended up in a group with my roommates which as it turns out was highly appropriate. we discussed the chapter, answered the questions Chad asked us and then just started talking about the verses that stuck out to us. this brought us to a very interesting conversation about 1 Timothy 5:4
slightly out of the context of widows, we began talking about the charge that the verse makes. it says that our first responsibility is to show godliness in the home. in the NIV translation it says they must put their religion into practice by caring for their own family. hmm... interesting something we all know deep down but don’t (at least i don’t) spend a lot of time thinking about. we got off on this long conversation about what that looks like, what it means to us and what hinders Christians today from that attitude. i have been thinking a lot lately about how much we want to display Christ to others and to the people around us, but this verse reminded us how impossible that is to do without being able to display Christ to each other. this verse seems to imply that godliness needs to begin in your own home, behind closed doors. the people we take most for granted are the people we need to start with and pay the most attention to. begin at home and it will “leak” out. kind of ironic because i think the truth is if we were honest with ourselves we would admit this isn't our normal attitude. somewhere deep down, we know our roommate or spouse will forgive our crankiness, but we sure don’t want to be rude to our coworker. i mean "how would that reflect Christ?" :-) kind of a fun topic to dive into. we brought it around to apply to our little home on hunt street and talk about what ability we have to exercise godliness and in turn display Christ in our relationships.
well we also began talking about the family and how it is the building block of our society. seems obvious this is why it would be key that godliness begin there. we talked about the job that parents have to raise children to fear God, specifically the role of moms (surprise surprise). no, but i can honestly say that i thought about this topic in a new light. i think i gained a clearer picture of the responsibility of being a mom for what a true honor it is. cool stuff
Posted by Emily at June 28, 2004 11:20 PM
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Thanks for sharing, Em, I needed to hear that.
Posted by: RehabChick at June 30, 2004 07:53 AM
"kind of ironic because i think the truth is if we were honest with ourselves we would admit this isn't our normal attitude" I thought that this was a rather interesting way of rewording the famous emilyism of "let's be honest with ourselves."
Posted by: wagner at June 30, 2004 08:19 AM