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Videos That Make Us Laugh and Think- Pt 5

By Dan | June 4, 2008

This may be the best video yet. I was laughing throughout it. (By the way was anyone else reminded of Michael Scott in The Office by this guy?) It has a number of angles though.

First, have you ever dealt with a person like this? Someone who basically thinks his or her idea is the main contribution. Now all the peons can just make the surrounding details happen. Clearly this happens in churches.

There’s another angle though, the gender one. God calls men to a difficult position in the family- servant leader. Oftentimes men act as if they should just boldly lead and expect wife and family to follow. Simply by being the man and doing the manly thing (here grilling the actual meat, but other guy activities such as mowing lawn, putting together furniture out of the Ikea box, etc could be substituted) they are fulfilling their role as head and man of the house and their families should thus be inspired to joyful service. After all they like that other kind of stuff. In reality, God calls men to much more work than that, he calls them to lead by service, including getting their hands dirty with some stuff they may not always enjoy. Remember, he tells men they are to model their leadership and love on that of Jesus Christ who laid down his life for the church (Eph. 5:25)

So what do you think? Take either angle. How do we help people understand what service is really about? How do we help people get excited about all aspects of service? Also, how do we help men and women understand the right use of roles in a household (there is such a thing), the servant-leader role of men, etc?