Dad -First Hero, First Love

First Hero, First Love. Fathers have great influence.

A father will show a son how to act and a daughter how to be treated. Father’s greatly influence how a person will see God. Fathers we must daily receive His grace to continue to operate in excellence our children deserve. We are role models.

Quotes:

Being a role model is the most powerful form of education - John Wooden

My father didn’t tell me how to live. He loved me and let me watch him do it.

Children follow our example more than our advice. Children have never been good at listening to their elders but have never failed to imitate them

The Son Of God Only Did What He Saw The Father Do

John 5:19 KJV 1900

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

John 8:28 KJV 1900

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

John 4:34 KJV 1900

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

The Elephants' Tale

A South African National Park had two problems.

Too many elephants

White rhinos being slaughtered.

The game wardens had relocated or killed most of the adult elephant population. The young elephants were aggressively killing the rhinos. The game wardens thought more older elephants could rein in the younger ones.

It worked. The young bulls (after a few early and futile skirmishes with the "Big Daddies") started following the older bulls around -- obviously enjoying the association with the adult males, yielding to their discipline and learning from them proper elephant behavior.

Changing Communities - A Lesson From Elephants:

the absence of responsible adult males -- no matter the cause of that absence -- has serious, even deadly, impact on younger males.

reintroducing adult males into the community -- whether related to the youngsters or not -- can help powerfully to guide the youngsters into responsible adolescence and adulthood.

Rolemodeling Is The Highest Form Of Education.

1 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV 1900)

1 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV

Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

1 Corinthians 11:1 NKJV

Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Acts 1:1 KJV 1900

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Paul said follow me as I follow Christ.

The word follow is mimetes. It is translated imitate. It is also the root for our English word mime. A mime tells a story by their actions.

Parents attending church

If Mom attends church regularly and Dad doesn’t at all…

2% of their children will end up attending church regularly

60% of their children will end up not attending at all

If Mom and DAD attend regularly…

75% will have relationship with God and attend church

What is all this telling us?

Rolemodeling is the highest form of education.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of education - John Wooden (You never know who you’re influencing. Operate in excellence)

Our role model sets future generations up for success.

We can be the male role model we needed when we were younger.