We are sorry to say the free Missional Motherhood online Bible study has ended! If you’d like to view the video, individual sessions can be purchased here.
Welcome to our last full week of Missional Motherhood! We have one more video after this one, but this is the last week with personal study included. You can do it! We hope you enjoyed gaining a new perspective on priesthood this week, inspiring you to proclaim the message of the gospel to those you mother and your neighbors.
If you have any questions about how this study works, we’ve answered most of them here.
Catching up? We’ll leave the videos up until December 1, 2016. After that time, you can purchase or rent sessions you missed here.
Click here for Session 1.
Click here for Session 2.
Click here for Session 3.
Click here for Session 4.
Questions to discuss in the comments:
- What do you do when your everyday ministry of motherhood feels trivial or pointless? (pg. 68)
- How would you encourage a woman who cannot see that the life of Christ is displayed in her deaths-to-self? (pg. 85)
Before watching the video next week, complete Session 5: The King’s New Creation in the Bible study book. We’ll meet back here on Thursday for our next session!
(1) I try to take a breath and look at everything from the big picture. When I feel particularly down about this I try to make some “thinking time” the next morning or that evening. This always helps me focus on the bigger picture, usually because thinking time for me involves some prayerful thought also.
(2) I would try to remind her that she DOES sacrifice for God everyday! What she does is definitely important and part of God’s mission for us! (I need to remind myself of that often also!)
I try to remind myself of the bigger picture as we have been discussing in previous weeks. Like others, I like to listen to and read lots of online resources to focus my mind on what it is I am ultimately trying to achieve (when it comes to motherhood). I have a little pamphlet ‘The High Calling of Motherhood’ by Walter Chantry on my kitchen table at present and it’s kind of been floating around the kitchen for a few weeks. I pick it up and read a paragraph or two every so often. I am helped a great deal by going to a ladies Bible study my church has (there are two lovely ladies that look after any kids that come in the next room – it’s amazing). It’s good to talk and share with others who are in the same stage in life or have been there before a few years earlier.
This study was good for me today!! I am a work from home mom and I feel like I get lost and swallowed up in my day. I set ridiculously high expectations for myself, and constantly beat myself up for not living up to them. I feel that EVERYONE around me relies on me so much! My 7 year old twins, my 10 year old with cancer, my husband/business partner, my mentally ill/alcoholic brother in law that lives 4 houses down, my best friend who is hell bent on saving the world and taking on everything, but needs me as her wingman, my 93 year old grandmother in law, whom I help care for… who has had 5 heart attacks in the last month, my mother in law who is dealing with her addict son, and said 93 year old mother, and parlty raising her 12 year old niece b/c of the addict son……..not to mention many other friends and neighbors who constantly text or drop in. All of these people need me and take from me. I love them all, but feel like I’m breaking down!! I just can’t do it all!! I am not enough!! I think that is the whole point. God wants me to accept that I will never be enough!! That is why I need a Savior!! So…..I dont know if that exactly addresses the questions but, motherhood is very overwhelming, exhausting and thankless at times. However, we must not forgot we have a Father in Heaven who is more than enough. I picture myself crawling up in His big, safe lap today, like a child and letting Him take care of me!!
You really do have a lot going on in your life! If it were me I think I would be overwhelmed. Praying that God gives you the strength to manage the tasks that he wills you to do.
Thank you <3
What an excellent RICH lesson, Gloria. Oh I needed that today! Toddlers are sanctifying!
I’ve fallen into the trap of throwing my hands in the air and just taking a nap. Avoiding my mounds of motherhood work (housework included) has been an escape the last few weeks. Now, I do believe raising young children is work enough to require some extra sleep now and again – but not as an escape 🙂 I needed this reminder that because of my salvation in Christ I CAN DO THIS! Buckle down and get busy – to the Glory of God!
When I feel my daily ministry is small, I need to redirect my perspective. It helps me to listen to praise music or a podcast-anything to elevate my eyes back to Jesus and not myself. I’d encourage anyone struggling with that to try those methods and also get in a women’s ministry somehow to gain accountability/community. It’s an often thankless job: motherhood: but it is for His glory and having dear friends to journey along with you helps!
When I feel that my ministry of Motherhood is trivial or pointless, it is because I am trying to do everything in my own power. I need to remember to depend on the Lord in all things and give Him the glory. He is’able!
I would encourage a woman who feels she cannot see the death to self in the day to day of Motherhood to try to take things one thing at a time and give each thing over to Christ. Stay on the Word and pray!
Yes! It’s that “take the next step” mentality. I need to remember this.
Very good point!