Blog » “Your Family can be Superheroes”

Monday, June 10, 2013 Jeff Lampl

Sometimes I make a visit to a “city” ministry like the Lighthouse in Oxford where one or two poorly paid but highly competent staff plus many but not enough already busy volunteers give of time they don’t have so that kids who are under-resourced both relationally (parents not around) and materially (poor) can get meals, tutoring, an adult who cares and be introduced to Jesus. 

Each time I come away thinking, “those are a real Christians”. They are my heroes. They are on the front lines. It is they who care the most. It is they who are bringing hope and justice to the world one child at a time. 

Philippians 1:6 tells us that God has begun a good work in you and your family and He is working to bring that work to a flourishing finish and one of the important ways that God wants to finish His work in you is  by taking you and your family together beyond yourselves.  

          “There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this
          great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day
          Christ Jesus appears”.     Philippians 1:6 (MSG) 

Just as God intended that Israel would go beyond itself and reach the world,

          “I'm setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!"
                                                      Isaiah 49:3-6 (MSG)  

God wants every believing family to go beyond itself to reach those who need you.  

Here’s a simple and powerful step you can take as a family.  

     1. Attend the Lighthouse picnic on Saturday. All the details are below.
     2. Tell your family that this picnic is a picture of the Kingdom of God where believers are
         gathered for the purpose of bringing everyone to the Party that God wants everyone to
         get in on.
     3. Tell your family that the money raised will go to building a big building in Oxford where
          kids who don’t have what you have can meet Jesus and have help to make it in life.
     4. Make a pledge of any amount and do it as a family.
     5. Jesus. Family. God. Together. Outreach. Holy Spirit. Giving. Fun. These all go together
          when Families go beyond themselves for the sake of others.