Reading: Life in the Fishbowl (The Video Slides)

Life in the Fishbowl
by Professor Henry Reyenga

Put Yourself in the Fishbowl

You Watch Yourself

1 Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

What do the fish look like?

Are there fish in the bowl?

2 Timothy 1:5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

The Fish become the Fishermen

Take responsibility

• 2Tim. 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Transparency

Life Illustrates Character Transformation

2 Timothy 1:12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.

Transparency

Life Illustrates Character Transformation

• 2 Timothy 4:6-7  For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Look in the cupboards

• 2Tim. 3:10-11  You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings — what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

• Seeing Faith in Action is very Effective

• 2 Tim. 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,

How to Thrive in the Fishbowl

1. Your life and Doctrine are important!

• 1 Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

2. Your family will be in the fishbowl

• Self aware about it.

• Get a thick skin, and teach your family to get one too, without cynicism

• Watch out for Trophy mentality

• Confidentiality

• Boundaries

• Seize the Advantage of this.

3. Your Messages and the Fishbowl

• When you put your family on the stage do it with gentle love and respect,

• Each child react differently to that, be careful

• Should bless your family

4. Friendship and the Ministry

• Understand the nature of people dynamics

• Friendships who do not get caught in the politics of the church

 Being a Fishers of Men

Enjoy it, own it, and reach others

Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”