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Ep. 145 | Our Families' Identities Are Being Shaped around Consumerism · The Family Teams Podcast

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  What's up, 5-Minute Fatherhood listeners? Have you guys seen that Family Team's Weekend Live is officially open? You can register. You can claim your spot. A two-day event, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 18th and 19th this year. We're going to pack 250 couples in a Memorial Hall historic theater downtown where we're going to lean in, roll up our sleeves, and we're going to be able to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a
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  and have a workshop about building a multi-generational family team on mission. You're gonna get practical tips, you're gonna get practical tools, you're gonna leave with a family blueprint and manual, and officially you're also going to be not alone and realize there's other people who want to do the same thing as you. We want you guys there, it's selling out fast, so make sure to go to familyteams.com slash weekend to register and claim your spot. And there's also a special little discount code if you're part of our Facebook group, which you can find a link to that,
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  in the info section on audio or the info section on the YouTube channel. So again, familyteams.com slash weekend. It's selling out fast. Claim your spot. We'd love to see you there. And the way you lead your family out of consumerism is one assignment at a time.
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  Hey guys, welcome to the 5-Minute Fatherhood Podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.
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  What's up, guys? Jeff and Jeremy here. Another episode of 5-Minute Fatherhood. I'm excited about today's topic because it's one that I deeply, deeply care about. And it's kind of this competition or this battle or kind of this historical moment we had 100 or 200 years ago where we went from a production-based society or a contributing-based society to a consumer-based society and the huge ramifications that's had with the family because we don't even realize, if you're listening as a family in the West, in America, that I guarantee 99% of us...
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  don't realize that we actually are living and having our family's identity shaped around how we consume things together. And that is a little antithetical to a team because a team don't, teams don't consume, teams build, teams contribute, teams play in the game, teams serve, teams have a mission. But yeah, Jeremy, what would you say about this? Or how do you want to kind of impact this one?
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  Yeah. So I started thinking about this. I was reading this book, Kingdom Family, by Trevecca O'Klom. And she said this quote, which really struck me. She said, Most suburban and urban families in our culture no longer have a need or means of producing anything together, and their sole relational function is based on what they consume together.
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  So their conversations and their actions are reduced to planning for the next purchase, the next vacation, the next entertainment event, rather than actually working towards and accomplishing a project. And so this is, yeah, this is a big problem is that we don't have anything that we actually try to accomplish together and just naturally. And it takes a lot of leadership.
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  to come out. And the way you lead your family out of consumerism is one assignment at a time. You take on a mission that requires every member of the family to contribute, and then you lead your family into that mission through various assignments. I'm really excited about this, by the way, because our whole month of August in the homeroom,
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  our online membership program, is to help families lead their family teams on assignments. And so what we're doing is walking each person, each family through a various set of questions to try to find assignments that match their mission.
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  Questions like, what kind of gets under your skin or what are you angry about? Or what needs are just around you, on your street, in your extended family? Or what has God woven into your family story? Are there places, are there needs, are there stories that your family carries that represent a part of your family's mission that you guys can take on a specific assignment?
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  But what's really challenging you guys is you have to break these down into specific projects. This is what the author of this book is really saying, and I completely agree because there is not going to be – it's not going to be sort of – somebody's not going to hand you a program that just fits your particular unique family and says, hey, this is how your family can really do something productive instead of just consumed.
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  It's going to take a little bit of thought, a little bit of prayer, a little bit of leadership and vision, but it can really be done well. And so we'd highly recommend it because the alternative, you guys, is that we continue to become just sort of a consumption group. And that is not how you build a team on mission. A team on mission has to score. A team on mission has to complete projects. A team on mission or a family must be fruitful.
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  That's what we were designed to do in Genesis 1. And so how do we kind of move from this consumer mentality to a production mentality? We have to become fruitful through taking on these kinds of assignments.
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