Earlier in my ministry when I pastored a church that wasn’t able to offer a children’s church like we do I included a children’s message during the worship service. I tried to take a biblical truth from my message that day and relate it to children by doing an object lesson. One I remember doing was on the security we have as God’s children. I would take a quarter and hold it in my hand tightly and challenge any of the kids to try to get the coin free from my hand. When a few of them would try and fail they could understand the scripture that says of our relationship with God “No one can pluck us from the father’s hand.” We all like good object lesson because they can bring abstract concepts down to reality.
God likes using object lessons to amplify and illuminate spiritual truth. You may not have thought this before but our lives as Christians are to be an object lesson for the people around us and the angels in heaven. It’s safe to see that people and angels are watching us. One of the ways our lives are object lessons is through the created order of men and women and the way our relationships reflect that our origins are from God, reflecting His power, creativity and love.
This Sunday we will take a dive into 1 Corinthians 11 and the headship principle. This passage and doctrine are often misunderstood and wrongly applied in Christendom. As we continue our search for the Male Identity, we will look at the object lesson of headship as it is taught in this passage and throughout the Bible. I invite you to come to church this Sunday, being willing to set aside whatever preconceived ideas you may have about this passage and doctrine. Then open your mind and heart to looking with me into scripture to see this amazing object lesson, then, by God’s grace look to be a living object lesson that reflects the creative order of God.