The Normal Christian Life

A Life With family

The normal Christian life is a life lived with a family. I don't necessarily mean the family you were born into by blood relation. I mean the family of God. Do you know that the Bible instructs us to call God, "our father?" If God is a father that means he has children and a family. If you have asked Jesus to forgive your mistakes and direct your life then you have taken the first few steps into God's family.

Though those are the first steps they are not the last. I want to show you four stages in the development of our life with the family of God.

2 Kings 4:1-7
1The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”
“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a little oil.”
3Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
5She left him and afterward shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”
But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

The QUALITY of her miracle was based on her FAITH.

The QUANTITY of her miracle was based on her RELATIONSHIPS.

Without good relationships she would have had her neighbors shut their doors in her face and she would have collected very few, very small jars. Because she had lots of freinds, she had lots of jars and lots of big jars. She gained enough jars to fill them with oil. Enough oil to pay off all her debts and buy back her two sons from slavery!

Your relationships are the only thing you will take with you into eternity, you can take them to Heaven or Hell.



Membership – Choose to belong.
Choose to belong to God's family by asking God to forgive you for your mistakes in Jesus name.
Friendship – Choose to be friends.
Once you are in God's family, make some friends with others in God's family.
Partnership – Choose to help out.
The nest step in really feeling like you are in a family is working together and doing life together. Pray for these new friends and they will pray for you. Do things for each other, we call this minstry.
Kinship – Choose to be family.
The final goal is truly knowing that you are a part of a family. A church or religion that does not treat you like family if missing the mark. You are not a member on the roll, or a name on a list. You were made to be a member of a family.