1. HOW DO I BALANCE WORK, CHURCH AND FAMILY? Presented by: FRANCO FERRER

2. Your Weekly Schedule Your Weekly Schedule

3. What are your priorities?

4. Does God really give us multiple assignments and expect us to pick the one he wants us to fail at? Does God really give us multiple assignments and expect us to pick the one he wants us to fail at? How do you remain faithful and fruitful at work when you also need to be fruitful and faithful as a spouse, parent, child, employee, friend and church member? How do you remain faithful and fruitful at work when you also need to be fruitful and faithful as a spouse, parent, child, employee, friend and church member? How do you do it all in the mere 168 hours that comprise a week? How do you do it all in the mere 168 hours that comprise a week?

6. The Bible doesn’t depict the responsibilities of life as a juggling act.

7. REMEMBER We are disciples of Jesus above all and that we work for Him in everything we do. It helps us to be faithful and fruitful in all of the responsibilities He has given us, not just some of them.

8. What is our one and only first responsibility? DISCIPLESHIP TO JESUS

10. As believers our lives are by Him, to Him, and for Him. As believers our lives are by Him, to Him, and for Him. Os Guinness

11. 1.Who saved us? 2.Who gave us to Jesus? 3.What are we called to?

12. 2 Thessalonians 2:14 To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

13. John 17:6 I have manifested Your name to the people whom You gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and You gave them to me, and they have kept Your word.

14. Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

15. We have been saved by Jesus; we are given to Jesus and now we are called to live for Jesus.

16. Discipleship to JESUS must be our primary, overarching, undergirding assignment.

17. Our first and greatest responsibility organizes and defines all the secondary “whatever you do” responsibilities.

18. “Whatever you do” Church Life Family Life Work Life

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20. FAITHFULNESS & FRUITFULNESS IN FAMILY, CHURCH & WORK

21. FAITHFULNESS & FRUITFULNESS For every assignment in your life, you will find in the Bible both a minimum standard for faithfulness and principles for pursuing further fruitfulness.

22. It means the basic requirements Scripture give in an area of calling. If you are failing to live up to these basic standards in one of your assignments, then you are not being faithful in that area. MINIMUM STANDARD FOR FAITHFULNESS

23. This are ways in which we can grow beyond this minimum expectation of faithfulness. If you are meeting the Bible’s standard of faithfulness, you are free to dream and consider how to invest your time and energy. PRINCIPLES FOR PURSUING FRUITFULNESS

24. FAITHFULNESSFRUITFULNESS FAIL TO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF FAITHFULNESS, YOU FALL INTO IDLENESS. IDOLATRYIDLENESS PUSH BEYOND FRUITFULNESS, YOU FALL INTO IDOLATRY.

25. GET THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE! Pursue FAITHFULNESS, then FRUITFULNESS, but not idolatry.

26. 1.Determine if you’re being faithful in your assignments. 2.Consider where you might be able to invest for greater fruitfulness. 3.Avoid the trap of idolatry, where you are mastered by your work instead of serving the Lord. FAITHFULNESS. THEN FRUITFULNESS. BUT NOT IDOLATRY.

27. Group Activity What is the minimum standard of faithfulness when it comes to your – FAMILY? – CHURCH? – WORK?

28. FAMILY

29. CHURCH

30. WORK

33. God has given us broad parameters of what too much looks like (idolatry) and what too little looks like (idleness).

34. Practical Guide to be Faithful, Fruitful and not to idolize family, church, work

35. DETERMINE what it means to be faithful in each of your assignments. DETERMINE what it means to be faithful in each of your assignments.

36. EVALUATE yourself with regard to each of those assignments and what it means to be faithful in them. EVALUATE yourself with regard to each of those assignments and what it means to be faithful in them.

37. REPENT of any sin you discover. REPENT of any sin you discover.

38. CONSIDER where you might press forward in fruitfulness in one or all of your assignments.

39. The assignments God give us aren’t really in competition with one another.

40. All our assignments are really just parts of the one primary responsibility we have to follow and honor Jesus.

41. HOW DO I BALANCE WORK, CHURCH AND FAMILY? Presented by: FRANCO FERRER

42. HOW DO I BALANCE WORK, CHURCH AND FAMILY? FRANCO FERRER Disciple of Jesus| Husband to Pauline & Father to CJ| Associate Pastor, IBCM| Training Officer, TSPI, Inc.| iDISCIPLE Youth Director| Student, SBST