Your First Family: Minister Well To Them Series

Imagine for a moment you’re watching the last game of the World Series. It’s the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded. There are two outs and the game is tied. A time out is called. The manager of the team on the field makes a pitching change and brings in the best closer in baseball history. At the same time the manager of the team at bat decides to make a batting change. He doesn’t call in his best seasoned clutch hitter. No he sends to the plate a guy who has never held a bat in his hands before. In fact the new batter has never watched a baseball game before. What do you think the chances are that this new batter will be successful? Slim to none?

Listen, I think a lot of young married couples today are like that new inexperienced batter that I just described---they start out with the odds stacked against them. Particularly lacking in their lives has been good role models. We all know that it’s not at all uncommon these days because of divorce situations to read a marriage announcement in the paper which lists three or four sets of parents for the bride and groom. And sometimes you know or you come to find out that mom or dad isn’t in a second marriage but a third or fourth. There’s no doubt in my mind that many young adults who enter into marriage for all the right reasons have a lot of difficulty keeping their marriage together because they grew up without any good role models and they’re pretty clueless as to how to make it work. Among other counsel I might give young struggling couples I’d be sure to point them to Christ’s example.... but they’re not the only ones I encourage to look at and follow Christ’s example---I point all married couples to the example of Christ all married couples---in fact I try to point every person to the example of Christ. His is the greatest example of love known to man. No matter the relationship---spouse to spouse, parent to child, child to parent, even friend to friend...every relationship we have in life can be successful, fulfilling God-honoring and rewarding by following Christ’s example in relating to and loving others.

Lastly a key ingredient to success in our family relationships is to Immerse ourselves in all the Bible’s teachings and do our best to apply them. As important and helpful as it is for us to study the life of Jesus and apply what we learn from it---we don’t want to write off the other passages of the scripture we can learn from.

Merle Mees concurs...in his sermon Investment Tips for Growing Family Relationships, he shares these thoughts---

Warren Buffet is one of the richest men in America. In 1997, among the 70 or so people in this country who were worth 1 billion dollars or more, Buffet was the only one of only a few who acquired his wealth through investing. Many investors look to him for investment advice. His firm Berkshire Hathaway has one of the most widely read annual reports issued. And a book has been written about his investment strategies; it’s called The Warren Buffet Way.

If you could sit down with Warren Buffet for a while and get some investment tips would you?