1. Benefits of staying at home
Care Group 11/7/12

2. Mothers
Working outside the home by choice
Stay at home

3. Stay at Home
Inward Focus
Outward Focus

4. Stay at Home
Jn 17:15 in not of the world
Inward Focus
Outward Focus

5. Hindrances to staying home
Need more money
Overspending
Debt
Lure of Materialism

6. Hindrances to staying home
1 Tim 6:9-10
Matt 6:19-24
Romans 12:2

7. More hindrances
What about my identity?
Erin and Lorena’s stories

8. More hindrances What about my identity?
I never pictured myself as a mom
I went to school for a career
People might think I’m stupid or lazy
What if someday my husband is gone
 Not ‘just’ a housewife!

9. Some reasons to stay home

10. Some Scripture Children are a gift from God Psalm 127:3-5a Prov 31
Deut 6:5-7
Psalm 78:5b-7
Titus 2:4-5a

11. What’s in it for me?

12. Nurture
1 Thes 2:7-8
But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.
  Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.
we only have so much energy—physically, emotionally and spiritually. invest it wisely

14. Discipleship
Eph 6:4    Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

15. Sanctification
Matt 16:24     Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
     25     “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

16. Sanctification
2 Cor 5:14-15     For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;  and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

17. Victorious sacrificial life—Joy!
3 Jn 4     I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

18. Women are powerful

19. What will I do at home? Not: perfection Economize—simple living
Sacrifice—and find joy!

20. What will I do at home?
Memories
Traditions
“We always…”

21. What will I do at home?
Education
Critical thinking

22. What will I do at home? Nature
Psalms 19:1-2, Luke 12:24 & 27, Ps 50:10-11, Psalm 8:3-4

23. What will I do at home?
Creativity

26. What will I do at home?
Reading

28. You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -- I had a Mother who read to me.

29. Secrets of Strong Families
Commitment
Time Together
Appreciation
Communication
Spiritual Wellness
Coping with Crisis

30. What will I do at home?
Family on a Mission
Ministry

31. What will I do at home?
Love
I am your biggest fan

32. What do I hope to see in my kids?
Happy childhood—good memories
Loved
Compassion for poor and lost people
Independent adults & lifelong learners
God is REAL for them
Their responsibility to their own generation
pass the baton of truth

33. Resources 2012 Servant Team Meeting (Fall) Simple Living Class
Simple Living Class
What is a Family Edith Schaeffer