Dads, are you sharing the Word with your children? I would hope so. From a young age, children respect and admire their own father and mother more than anyone else. They will receive the Word from you far more readily than from anyone else. While Sunday school is a good start, you can teach them godly principles and God’s Word from day to day in your own home regularly.
This article discusses the possibilities of opening up to your children with God’s Word.
When I was a kid, Republican Vice President Dan Quayle decried the glamorization of single-parent families on popular television shows such as “Murphy Brown,” and he was mocked, on air, by Murphy Brown herself.
Well, today, a lot more people are listening, and a lot fewer are mocking. The statistics are just too clear.
In large parts of America, we have two or three generations of boys raised without their dads. In fact, 15 million kids in America live apart from their biological fathers—or one in three American children. A whopping 44 percent of children in mother-only households live in poverty, compared with just 12 percent living in intact homes. Further, 85 percent of prisoners have no relationship with their dads, while 63 percent of teen suicides come out of situations in which father is not at home.
It’s no wonder, then, that 92 percent of those polled by the National Center for Fathering say that dads make a “unique contribution” in their children’s lives, and that 70 percent see absentee dads as the biggest family or social problem in America. So what do we do about it?
Well, Jim Daly, the president and CEO of Focus on the Family, answers that question on this week’s installment of BreakPoint This Week. He says the answer to societal breakdown begins at home. Jim, who’s been on the program before, has written the outstanding new book, “The Good Dad: Being the Father You Were Meant to Be.” Now note that Daly wants to help us become good dads, not perfect ones. In “The Good Dad,” Jim talks about his own struggles, both as a son and as a father.
Jim was abandoned not by one dad, but by three. He writes, “When my stepfather walked out of our life forever, he told us he couldn’t deal with it. That, to me, is the antithesis of fatherhood. God calls us as men to deal with discomforting situations such as the ones fatherhood can put us in.”
And yet Jim wasn’t condemned to a life of crime or poverty, which is very good news for those dads who fall short, as well as for their children. How in the world did Jim not only survive the experience, but end up thriving? You’ll find out in our interview. So come to BreakPoint.org to tune in.
Jim also impressed me by his hopeful, yet thoroughly honest approach to being a dad. He said fathers have three basic roles—leadership, provision, and protection—but they must be undergirded by commitment.
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Share God’s Word as well as God’s Love with your kids. At a young age they will be much more receptive and trusting and you can germinate the seed of truth in their souls.