Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Wing Man Theme of the Week: Getting Down and Getting Human Sunday, December 19, 2004
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Men of IntegrityNovember/December 2004Wing ManTheme of the Week: Getting Down and Getting HumanSunday, December 1976Who Said It
Jim is the author of Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven. He teaches and is chaplain at Friend's University in Wichita, Kansas. Jim's friendship with Rich developed while he attended Friend's University and lived for two years in an attic apartment in the Smith's home.
Rich Mullins, a popular singer and songwriter, left his comfortable lifestyle to live among Native Americans on a New Mexico reservation, and was killed in an auto accident in 1997.
What He Said
What a weird thing it would be to be God Almighty and then to become flesh," Rich Mullins exclaimed in an interview. "What would it be like," he wondered, "to have to become a little boy and endure Hebrew school and listen to some rabbi rattle on about something that You wrote before he was ever born?"
Once, when we were talking about his song, "Boy Like You, Man Like Me," I told him that I loved the image of Jesus making "angels in the winter snow."
He said, "You know, I think that's one of the funniest lines I've ever written."
"What's so funny about it?" I asked, puzzled.
"Don't you get it? he asked. "Jesus made the angels—the real angels."
I was stunned for a moment as I thought about the One who made Michael and Gabriel flopping His hands and feet in the snow. Rich kept looking at me and laughing, and then I laughed. Now I smile every time I hear that line.
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