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*Dads: the key to healthy families and churches*
*eph 6:4*
*1208*
*Introduction*
1. We’ve all been watching our favorite TV program and it is suddenly interrupted with some late breaking news.
Lately it has been a weather advisory of impending stormy weather.
Sometimes I’ve said that could wait until the commercial break.
They really didn’t have to interrupt for that.
This morning I’m interrupting our HS series to turn our attention toward dads.
Couldn’t it wait for a couple more weeks until the series is over and then deal with dads?
Like many of the weather advisory that breaks in, for many viewers it could wait unless you happen to be in the area where the storm it about to unload its fury.
Then you’re glad someone made that choice so you could run for safety.
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That is the case this morning.
We are all in the viewing area of fathers.
Many of us are one.
Others of you are “will be” fathers –you will be someday.
A father has influenced all of us.
For some, that influence is good and cherished.
For others, that influence may be negative and unwanted.
Dads, men, boys, let’s take a look at what the bible tells us is our role and responsibility so our children might cherish our influence.
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Isn’t it interesting how differently society views moms and dads?
Mother’s day overload the floral shops, the phone lines and the restaurants.
Father’s day…well.
I was reading that a regional telephone company said that the number of calls on Father’s day are increasing.
In the report, they apologized for the delay in compiling the statistics.
They said the extra billing of these calls had slowed down their process.
Most of the children calling their dad called *collect.*
Dad, just called to tell you how much I love you.
Thanks for paying for the call.
We take Dad out on Father’s day and just to show him just how much we care, we let him pay the bill.
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The bible suggests to us that dads are the key to healthy families and healthy churches.
James Dobson of Focus on the Family listed some of the distributing results of the 2000 census.
Traditional families—a dad married to the children’s mom—dropped below 25% of households.
Households led by single mothers increased 25%.
Households led by single fathers increased 62%.
Households headed by unmarried partners grew by almost 72% from 1990.
Dobson concluded by saying “*imagine a world where nothing is stable and where people think primarily about themselves and their own self-preservation.
In short, the demise of families will produce a chaotic world that will be devastating to children.”*
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It is ironic when we look into our bapist churches where we emphasize the biblical directed male leadership of pastors and deacons, we discover women far outnumber the men.
In our church, it is about 65% adult women and 35% adult men.
In our church married women who attend our church without their husbands, outnumber men who attend without their wives by about 5 to 1.
The bible suggests the father, dad, is the key to healthy families and healthy churches.
Men are the key to a turnaround in our families and churches.
So we interrupt our HS series in order to draw attention to the vital role we men play.
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Our text is one verse but if we men apply its teaching, we can begin the revolution for healthier families and churches.
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I. FATHERS
1. Look at our verse.
To whom does Paul address? Fathers.
Many of us use male oriented language when we really are addressing everyone.
For example, we say all of mankind when we really mean all humankind.
Sometimes the bible does this.
It will say brothers when it is obvious from the context it means both men and women.
This is not the case here.
Here the word is fathers.
It is not parents.
It is the masculine term meaning fathers.
What this passage says applies to parents but father has the biblical mandate is obey it.
Why?
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Paul directs this to fathers because of the key and vital role of fathers in the home.
In the Roman world in which Paul was ministering, fathers had awesome power.
When a child was born, it was brought to the father.
If he picked the child up, that meant he accepted the child.
If he did not, it meant he rejected the child.
The child could be sold, given away or even killed by exposure.
While these are monstrous acts, they were legal acts in his day.
Paul writes to fathers to use their authority to encourage and build up their children, all their children.
God places men as the head of the family.
The father has the power of influence the family toward God.
Dad, we are responsible to God for applying this verse of our families.
He will hold us accountable.
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We all can agree that what Paul says in this verse both mom and dad can do.
Parents have the role of raising up our children so they become responsible adult believers.
The responsibility and accountability that makes that happen rests upon the father.
With that in mind, let’s see 4 roles that Paul highlights here that make dad the key to healthy families.
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LEADER
1. Dads, we are leaders of our home.
Paul doesn’t say this in this verse per say.
He does say it in 5:23 when outlines God’s organizational chart for the family.
He says Christ is at the top, next is the hus, then the wife and obviously underneath that is children.
We are the head of the household.
The leader.
No leader does all the work of the organization.
He or she is the motivator, the innovator, the one that sets the direction and vision and is the one responsible for the success.
When a baseball team consistently loses, the owner replaces all the players.
Nope.
The manager and some coaches have the opportunity to explore employment alternatives.
This reminds us the importance of the leadership role.
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The bible says the husband, the father, is the leader of the home.
God designates the father as the leader.
We can question God’s wisdom and suggest God had a senior moment when he decided that.
Nevertheless, men, we have the parking spot.
With the nameplate on the door.
We are the CEO of our family.
With that goes the accountability for what happens in our family.
Leadership does not mean master or dictator.
It does not mean the father is the king and the family is his subjects to rule over at his heart’s desires.
They are not slaves.
It doesn’t mean he makes all the decisions.
Good leadership involves delegation.
It doesn’t mean we’re always right.
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