Rethinking Family as a Team on Mission

12/16/24 • 52 min

For many in Western civilization, our idea of "family" seems like a failed experiment. We’ve been sold the line that the family exists primarily as a springboard for the individual. But what if our families functioned more like a team–a team on a mission? In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar talks with Jeremy Pryor, who has created a multi-generational household that lives together on mission making disciples of Jesus. Their story is powerful! In This Episode You’ll Learn:

Why so many families fail to live as a team and do life and mission together.
The simple, yet powerful rhythms that Jeremy's family live in.
The role that "intentionality" plays in establishing new family rhythms.
Ideas to help you start to create a family team right where you're at.

Get started here... From this episode: “There’s this other bigger story about what God's doing with his bride and the church, which is nested inside an even bigger story. Which is how God desires to recapture all of humanity. It goes from Genesis 1 all the way to the end of Revelation. And so you can fixate on smaller stories, and sometimes, we live our lives kind of from the center out, but man, you need to be careful that you [and your family] don't become part of a smaller story. You have to see the bigger picture.” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

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Why so many families fail to live as a team and do life and mission together.
The simple, yet powerful rhythms that Jeremy's family live in.
The role that "intentionality" plays in establishing new family rhythms.
Ideas to help you start to create a family team right where you're at.

Thanks for Listening!

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Everyday Disciple Podcast - Rethinking Family as a Team on Mission

Transcript

Jeremy Pryor00:00:00.900

The opposite of the rhythm often is just keeping obligations. And so people like you need to do evangelism, you need to do service projects, you need to be, have a date night. You need to have more time with your kids. Like you start to get you, you get kind of these "shoulds", right. That should should piled on you. Yeah. And you don't like nobody has helping you, like Jesus said about the Pharisees. You know, you heap obligations on people,