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As For Me and My House:
A Generational Playbook
Carl Nichols

If we get the family wrong, we can’t get the church right.

Joshua 24:15
“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Eight Keys From Joshua’s Life:

1. Personal Ownership - As for “ME”
2. Prophetic Declaration - “and my household”
3. Immovable Resolve - “we will”
4. Divine Purpose - “serve the Lord”

5. Catalytic Example - “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve”

Joshua 24:14-15 (ESV)
“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Joshua 24:22 (ESV)
Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”

BIG IDEA
You should be the most compelling man your kids know.
Win their hearts; win their destiny

6. Generational Vision - “Be very strong”

Joshua 23:1, 2, 6 & 14
After a long time had passed and the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man, summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: “I am very old...”

Joshua 23:1, 2, 6 & 14
“Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.”

Joshua 23:1, 2, 6 & 14
“Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.”

BIG IDEA:
Don’t mail it in. Make sure your kids know they are part of a bigger story.

7. Generational Impact - “We too will serve the Lord”

Joshua 24:16 & 18b
16 Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods!...We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God.”

The example of Joshua’s family changed the course of a nation.

BIG IDEA:
The most important disciples you’ll ever make are in your home.

8. Fruitful Legacy

Joshua 24:31 (ESV)
Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.

BIG IDEA:
Make a good battle with your life and tell good stories along the way.

A Generational Leader…

...takes PERSONAL OWNERSHIP

…to make PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS over his family

…guided by DIVINE PURPOSE

…fortified by IMMOVABLE RESOLVE

…living as a CATALYTIC EXAMPLE

...carried by GENERATIONAL VISION

...to make a GENERATIONAL IMPACT

…to leave a FRUITFUL LEGACY in the wake of a life devoted to serving his King and faithfully fighting the good fight.

We are the men we’ve been waiting for!