True North Church

Which chair do you sit in?

Chair #1: Represents Commitment
Chair #2: Represents Compromise
Chair #3: Represents Conflict

Chairs in King David's family

Chair #1: David = Priority
Chair #2: Solomon = Pleasure
Chair #3: Rehoboam = Perplexed

Chairs in Abraham’s Family

Chair #1: Abraham = Living Right

Chair #2: Isaac = Looked Right

Chair #3: Jacob = What’s Right

Chairs in Joshua and Judges

Joshua 24:15-16
And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. So the people answered and said: Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods…

Judges 2:7, 10
So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel…. When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

Chair #1: Joshua knew God and His works.
Chair #2: The elders knew about God and His works.
Chair #3: The children of the elders did not know God nor His works.

How does this apply to us?

1. If you know which chair you sit in you know how you are doing spiritually.

2. The Bible and history illustrated for us that the slide is usually downward from where you sit.

3. Knowing which chair you sit in will help you identify which chair your kids will most likely sit in.

How do I keep my family in Chair #1?

1. Give them an example to follow
2. Give them an environment to thrive in spiritually
3. Give your family an experience that is church-related
4. Examine your life