Class 3
What materials are you using?
· Last Class Homework Review:
Share Scriptures you found and how they have helped.
· Quality
o You cannot get rich results with a cheap investment!
Example: Kitchen Ceiling -
What was the purpose? To slap on an extension and sell the house
Consider your investment
§ What are you building with?
§ 1 Cor 3:12,13
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
§ Investments are things used now for a return later
§ Time
§ Money
§ Energy
§ Purposefulness
§ Leadership
§ Affection
§ Learning
§ Teaching
· Quantity
o Just Being There: Story of what I learned from my mother
Consistency
§ Eph 6:4
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
§ Roof nails example, consistency
§ Nothing will exasperate children more than inconsistency
§ Are you there?
§ Deuteronomy 6:6-7
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
§ Are you there when you are needed?
§ Are your children a priority?
§ Are you aware of when you are needed?
§ Do you make time to listen?
§ Always needed
§ Are you aware of how you are needed?
§ Note the beginning is that God’s Word needs to be on your heart first!
§ You are leading. You are making disciples. Are you also getting discipled?
§ Need to be there in order to obey that Scripture
Homework for next class:
Evaluate your investment with your children. Put time on your calendar with each of your children.