This Sunday at Church: Encourage Men to Be Biblical Fathers

For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Encourage Men to Be Biblical Fathers.

Consider this verse: “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.“ (Proverbs 22:6 ).  This verse shows the importance of parenting.  This including dads being a biblical father.  How much of our world’s problems and headlines today is the result of the lack of a father in people’s lives?

According to a US government study in 2014 “Related children living in female-headed families with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 45.8 percent, over four times the rate of children in married-couple families (9.5 percent)” (Source).  Over in Europe in 2003 “European researchers reveal that the risks facing children living with one parent may be even more widespread and immediate. They found the risk of suicide was more than twice as high among children in one-parent households compared with those living with both parents” (Source).  We could go on.

If you are a father reading this, realize you have an important role.  As a father I encourage you to live out your Christian faith as a father!  Then also encourage other men in your church to be biblical fathers.

Today in the US its Father’s Day.  What better time to begin encouraging others to be biblical fathers.

You can encourage others by telling them what you see they do well in; and to encourage them to keep on doing it.  You can also encourage others with verses.  There’s discouraged dads out there.  Encourage them with God’s grace in the Gospel.  Let that be a motivation for us all to pursue our responsibilities as dads!