RIPPLE EFFECT

The Family Challenge

November 28 & 29, 2009 Tierce Green

“The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling

before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and
asked, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’”
“They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be
saved – you and your household.’ Then they spoke the
word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.”
“At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed
their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were
baptized. The jailer brought them into his house and set a
meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had
come to believe in God – he and his whole family.”
Acts 16:29-34 (NIV)

1. AVOID THE DOUBLE LIFE

“Such people should not expect to receive anything from
the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the
world, and they are unstable in everything they do.”
James 1:7-8 (NLT)

 THREE FACES: PUBLIC FACE

PRIVATE FACE
PERSONAL FACE
STATED VALUES STATED VALUES STATED VALUES
CONFLICT WITH EBB & FLOW WITH CONSISTENT WITH
ACTUAL BEHAVIOR ACTUAL BEHAVIOR ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

DYSFUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL

2. PURSUE A BALANCE OF DISCIPLINE,

INSTRUCTION & LOVE
“ … the Lord disciplines those He loves … God is treating
you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”

Hebrews 12: 6-7 (NIV)

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old
he will not turn from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
HIGH LOVE

PERMISSIVE AUTHORITATIVE

LOW DISCIPLINE HIGH DISCIPLINE

& INSTRUCTION & INSTRUCTION

NEGLECTFUL AUTHORITARIAN

LOW LOVE

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But
the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
3. DISCOVER A TRANSCENDENT CAUSE
“So the men of Israel said, ‘ … and it shall be that the man
who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give
him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption
from taxes in Israel.’
“And David said, ‘ … Is there not a cause?’”
1 Samuel 25-29 (NKJV)

“And He died for all, that those who live should no

longer live for themselves but for Him who died for
them and was raised again.” 2 Corinthians 5:15 (NIV)

WHAT’S MINE IS HIS RIPPLE

WHAT’S HIS IS MINE EFFECT