What's @ the Center?

Someone/something has to be the center of the family. If it is the marriage, the kids, the sports, the activities, or anything but Jesus then idolatry is ruling the home. We need to have marriage honoring kid loving activity encouraging Christ centered homes with Him as our priority and unity.- Mark Driscoll

In Ministry I have the priviledge of working with many fabulous famillies. Families of all sizes and shapes and all very different. However, there is one thing that they all have in common...something or someone is a driving the family. If the family is sports oriented then I can clearly see that it's the practices, coaches, and games that drive the family's decision making. If the kids are the center then the kids opinions and whims drive the family. If anything but Christ is at the center of the family it plays out in the way that family spends their time, money, and energy. No doubt that as we place Christ in his rightful place in our home then HE will honor and bless the rest of our ventures.

My prayer for our families would be that we determine that Christ will be at the center - at any cost and watch as everythign else falls in to place. Anything else is truly taking the King off His Throne and placing Him on the sidelihnes of life.

If you have a family, lead a family, or are a memeber of a family - What would you say is at the center? What drives your family?