7 encouragements from John Piper for mothers who feel like they’re just a consumer at church.

Not a complete transcript, but if you can’t listen, here are his seven encouragements:

1. What I want from my people is that they don’t come to church to give me or to give God anything. I want them to come starved for God, hungry for God, desperate for God. And I want to set a banquet for them in the worship of singing and the worship of preaching so that they can drink and eat and delight like at a banquet and a great feast that ends in cheesecake and strawberries and stand up and say, “Ahh,” which is worship. And go out and feeling like they have met God at the river of living waters.
2. Be done with the mindset that mindset that ministry that is pleasing to the Lord is mainly church work. The church gathered exists to glorify God and to equip the church for scattering to the ministries of the home and the neighborhood and the workplace. And therefore to have a glorious ministry at home and some relationship with a few friends that you care about and minister to is a beautiful thing for which the church exists.
3. One child received in the name and for the glory and in reliance upon Jesus is a receiving of Jesus, and then he says, “No, no, it is the receiving of the Creator of the universe.” … This is a glorious thing and we must allow God to to tell us about the significance of what we’re doing as moms and as dads when there’s one child that we’re pouring our lives into, especially a disabled child, a child with special needs, one child: we are receiving Christ, we are receiving God.
4. Remember that life comes to us in chapters, in seasons. This is a season where the proportion of your investment in others outside the family may be smaller. This chapter’s going to change. There were other chapters once, this is the chapter now. And some chapters are very lopsided, they have to be lopsided, it’s just the nature of the chapter.
5. You’re a team with your husband. What he does in life counts for what you’re doing. You’re one flesh with him. If he has any significance at all in his workplace or in the church it’s your significance as well. Maintaining a sweet and beautiful and satisfying and peaceful home for the children and for him is releasing him and you in him for you in him for significant ministry
6. Never forget that you are investing in what your children will be, not just what they are now. This season may be one that makes all the difference in their ministry twenty years from now.
7. You can be a praying woman and with your husband a giving woman. So that your impact through prayer and giving may be beyond all reckoning at this season in your life.

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