Mar.15 2015-Family on Mission-Legacy

March 16, 2015/Kasey Crawford

Are the habits and patterns you have today on par with the legacy you want to pass on to the next generation?

What are you going to be remembered for? What do you want your Kingdom legacy to be? Building on last week’s message, we are going to look at the biblical picture of how each of us is called to live not only for ourselves, but also for the generations to come.

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Family on Mission: Legacy

March 15^th, 2014 by Kasey Crawford

Today’s Passages: Deuteronomy 30:19, Romans 8:14–17, John 14:12

Our Mission: We are _____________ to be a family of followers of Jesus doing life together to see the Kingdom of Heaven transform earth.

Are the habits and patterns you have today on par with the legacy you want to pass on to the next generation?

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live… Deuteronomy 30:19

The choices we make in our lifetime will ____________ impact many generations to come.

Like Jonathan and Sarah Edwards and Max Jukes, we will pass on an ______________ to the next generation. What do you want it to be?

Abraham and Sarah’s faithful obedience to God changed their offspring forever. You might be thinking, “But Abraham and Sarah had the _________ of God upon their lives, so my life can’t count like theirs”…

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ …Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ… Romans 8:14–17

In Christ we ______ have the favor of God upon our lives. We are co-heirs with Christ and as such it is God’s good pleasure to give us His _________.

Even if you have no earthly bloodline that has followed Christ, You are now part of His blood-line and His _________ blood flows through you to start a _______ trajectory for the generations to come.

When we think of the children and the generations after us, we want our ______________ to be their _____________.

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12

Jesus built to this moment in which he could pass on what he had done and give His spiritual children the honor to __________ on and ________ upon His legacy.

Living as a Disciple….Some questions to think through your legacy…

Are the habits and patterns you have today on par with the legacy you want to pass on to the next generation?

What are your family’s passions and strengths?

What are your family’s goals and dreams?

What do you want to be known for after you are gone?

How can you make that (above) into predictable patterns that can be passed on to the next generation?