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One of the things that we're faced with in our culture with the dissolution of the family and the regularity of divorce is many young men live in fatherless homes. It's very sad. I've thought about this a lot. What will be the long-term legacy of all these fatherless boys?
Parenting Is the Work of the Whole Body of Christ
And I want to, again, just say something that I've thought many times, I've said many times I don't think can be said enough - that parenting is the work of the whole body of Christ, that the children in our fellowship, in ways, are the responsibility of all of us. Often, in a moment where a child is being baptized or dedicated, depending on your theology, a pastor will ask for a commitment from the whole church to stand alongside of these parents and to parent these children.
I have a dear friend who is a single man who has dedicated his life to being the father to boys who don't have a father. He has foster-fathered many young men. I love that. I love that he saw the opportunity and he has modeled what it's like to be a godly dad to boys who had no dad.
Men, who are the fatherless boys in your congregation and how can you be used of God to put that male influence, the firm hand, the everyday skills, the loving relationship of a man that they can look up to? There are boys without dads that you can gift with something that you have that only takes a little bit of time and energy. Parenting, fathering is the work of the body of Christ.
