FAMILY MINISTRY

This drama addresses several topics. The first one is serving. This is not a popular word or concept in any culture—including the African culture. Human nature does not want to serve, and cultures reflect human nature. However, Christ said he came to serve not to be served. And he demonstrated that model over and over again. (Matthew 20: 26, 28; Matthew 23: 11; Mark 9:35, Mark 10: 43, 45 to list a few references) The model for the church for the leader is to be a servant.

But as the drama elaborates, serving is for all Christians. The family knows this and is putting it into practice.

The second topic is gender roles. This is an underlying (almost subversive) struggle throughout the dramas. Peter is the one who struggles with it the most. The male dominated culture he lives in sounds pretty good to him. Father demonstrates servanthood in his family and his son sees that. In understanding about servant leadership, Peter learns that Pastor also serves.

In these dramas I have deliberately presented Pastor as perfect. There is probably no pastor in the world as perfect as this one. But if we don’t know what we are aiming for, we will hit nothing, will we?