What Would You Do if This Was You?

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Originally Posted by Falla39

Sis. Renda, I thought it would be interesting to look at these points
as if this was a family, a home instead of a church.

How long should a father stay at a home under these circumstances?

He's been a father for almost a decade.

- Family membership is 30. (Wow! This man means business. What
does his wife think. How many sets of twins, triplets, etc.)

There is minimal compensation and he works a secular job fifty hours a
week. (He is trying to provide for his family. My, 30 family members
in 10 yrs.)

- The home is an embarrassment, but paid for.

- Started the home from nothing.

- He pays the family bills out of his own pocket. Well that a man's
responsibility, to provide for his own.

- The family members are apathetic.

I would say this man, and most certainly his wife, need a lot of encourage-
ment from someone who has been there, done that. I believe I could provide
some encouragement to that father and mother! How! By telling them about
my father and my mother. And how their Heavenly Father brought them through.

When Dad started the church we attend, he started it with his wife and
eleven children. In ten years, I am sure there was not a huge crowd.

But 50 yrs later, there are a lot more members under the pastors that have
been there since Dad went to be with the Lord.

But I thank God that in that 50 yrs. my husband and I, our six children,
their spouses, their children, and one granddaughter in law, number 29
from this church that started with a family, a man and woman with a desire
and little else.
(one son and his family of 6 worship in a neighboring city a few miles away.)


The apostle Paul said though you may have ten thousand instructors in
Christ, yet you have not many fathers. Fathers beget sons and daughters.
Instructors instruct but fathers produce.

Just some thoughts,

Falla39

I think this is apples and oranges....Just my opinion.