The Law of Maintenance

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The Law of Maintenance

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Roys Law of Maintenance

• Life will deteriorate
• into a state of disrepair
• and
• dysfunction without intentional
• and
• balanced care.
• Matthew 619-20

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Lessons From My Yard

• Weeds are
• hardy and deadly
• Come early, stay late
• Grow in all soils in neglected places around
  the edges
• Multiply efficiently
• Strangle good plants

• Genesis 317-19 cursed is the ground because of
  you in toil you shall eat of it all the days of
  your life. Both thorns thistles it shall grow
  for you

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Progress Pain
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Is Balance Possible?(Life is Full of Tugs)
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Priority Lists Do They Work?

• God
• Spouse/Marriage
• Children
• Self
• Work
• Church
• Friends
• Health
• Security
• Civic Duty

• A list of priorities doesnt make sense! No
  matter how you define describe your approach,
  if it is sequential, it is loaded with
  contradictions.
• J. Grant Howard in Balancing Lifes Demands

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Pentathlon Model
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A Centric Model
Physical
Relational
Christ
Emotional
Mental
Financial/Work
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Love Vs. Time

• Love
• God suspends the laws of mathematics in allowing
  it to expand infinitely
• He has delivered us from the need to prioritize
  our love sequentially.
• - Dr Richard Swenson
• John 316
• Matthew 2234-40

• Time
• is a context
• in which we
• all must work...
• it cannot be
• stretched or borrowed.
• John 76
• John 174

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Restoring Balance

• Place God at the center
• Fight the tyranny of the urgent
• Live within limits boundaries
• Grant grace say/accept no
• Rest/Laugh/Cry
• Practice simplicity contentment

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Create Relational Supports Accountability

• Who is your Paul?
• Who is your Timothy?
• Who is your Barnabas?

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Managing the Law of Maintenance

• apply all diligence,
• in your faith,
• supply moral excellence,
• and in your moral excellence knowledge, and in
  your knowledge
• self control, and in your self control
  perseverance
• 2 Peter 15-7

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