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Become the Dad Your Kids NeedThe rewards of being a brave dad are great. But no guts, no glory. First you have to be willing to follow God's job description for dads as given in the Bible. In Brave Dad you'll receive guidance on...the starting point of being a godly dadloving your wifehow to raise children who desire to follow Godways to lovingly discipline kids and encourage obediencetraps to avoid in the course of parentingthe power of a dad's example to shape children for lifeWhen you commit yourself to being a brave dad, God will help you every step of the way. There is no surer path to a lifetime of family blessings!

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 mai 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736968751
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture verses are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
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BRAVE DAD
Copyright 2014 by John MacArthur
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-6524-8 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-6875-1 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: MacArthur, John, 1939-
Title: Brave dad / John MacArthur.
Other titles: Being a dad who leads
Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015042023 | ISBN 9780736965248 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Fathers-Religious life. | Fatherhood-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Leadership-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV4529.17 .M25 2016 | DDC 248.8/421-dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015042023
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Dedication
To my children: Matt, Marcy, Mark, and Melinda.
All of them are walking with Christ, raising their own children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
That is far and away the greatest joy a father can experience.
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 The Starting Point of a Brave Dad
2 Raising Your Children in the Lord, Part 1
3 Raising Your Children in the Lord, Part 2
4 Leading Your Children to Grow in Wisdom
5 A Father s Love for a Rebellious Child
6 A Call for Brave Dads
Notes
Introduction
N o duty in my life is more important or more sacred than my role as a husband and father. That is where my true character is most accurately seen, and it is the best single gauge of my overall success or failure as a leader and role model. Everything else I do as a pastor, educator, author, or ministry leader would be severely compromised if I failed to lead my own family properly. In fact, this is one of the key tests of whether any man is fit to lead the church, because if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God? (1 Timothy 3:5). Conversely, if a man cultivates grace, godliness, and the mind of Christ in his home life, the fruit of the Spirit will naturally be seen in abundance throughout every facet of his life-his performance in the workplace, all his relationships, and his conduct in the world.
Furthermore, because home is where a person s true temperament is most clearly on display, no one knows the real character of a man better than his own children. They see with a keener clarity than most dads realize. If a man s public persona is merely a hypocritical veneer that disappears in the privacy of the home, the kids will be the first to see that. Indeed, it s hard to imagine anything more destructive to a child s moral and spiritual development. An ungodly, hypocritical, or indifferent dad is not only a constant, full-time negative role model; his influence also breeds cynicism, unbelief, discouragement, resentment, and a whole new generation of hypocrisy in his own children. Thus the iniquity of the fathers [is visited] on the children to the third and the fourth generations (Numbers 14:18; cf. Exodus 20:5; 34:7).
On the positive side, however, no one can have a more potent or longer-lasting influence for good in a child s life than a spiritually strong father. Bringing our children up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4) is not only a duty; it is also a great privilege, for a wise son makes a father glad (Proverbs 10:1; 15:20). There is no greater joy in life than to see one s own children walking in the truth (cf. 3 John 4). In other words, nothing is a more worthy investment of any father s time and energy than this: Be a godly leader in your own home. The returns you will reap include eternal riches of inestimable value, and the earthly rewards alone are sweeter and more valuable than any amount of material wealth.
This book, I trust, will be a help and encouragement to you as you pursue that goal. I have purposely kept it brief, simple, and focused. That is, after all, in keeping with the biblical instructions for fathers. Fatherhood is, of course, a prominent theme from Genesis to Revelation, and principles of parenting are scattered throughout. But glean and organize all of them together and what you will discover is that the Bible s guidelines for fathers are few and simple. Unlike many of today s parenting manuals, Scripture doesn t treat parenting as an arcane or bewildering conundrum. The father s duties are straightforward and fairly basic. What makes fatherhood seem difficult are our own inconsistencies and weaknesses. That s because parenting is first and foremost a spiritual task-one in which personal righteousness, self-control, and the mortification of our own flesh are all necessary prerequisites to proper discipline and instruction of our children. In short, the only way to be a dad who leads well is to be a dad who lives well.
May God bless you and empower you in your pursuit of that goal.

The responsibility given to the husband [to love his wife] should not be undertaken lightly. It is a call to shepherd, provide, protect, and lead. It requires love, self-sacrifice, humility, and diligence. Ultimately, it looks to heaven and purposes to live each day in light of that future inheritance. In the meantime, it rests in the grace of God-knowing that the best of human relationships can be fully enjoyed only in light of our fellowship with Him. 1
R ICH G REGORY
C HAPTER 1
The Starting Point of a Brave Dad
B y God s design and God s will, the husband is the head of the household; he is the leader of the family. Scripture makes it clear he is the one responsible for the success of the marriage and family, and the well-being of everyone involved. This headship is affirmed from the beginning of time at creation, a fact explained by the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11, where he states, The man is the head of a woman For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman s sake, but woman for the man s sake (verses 3,8-9). In that passage, Paul upholds the concept of a man s headship in the family by appealing to the order of creation-man was created first, then woman-and the fact woman was created to help the man (Genesis 2:18,21-24).
Later, in the most significant passage on marriage and family relationships in the entire New Testament, Paul once again addresses the married man s role as head of his own home. In the course of writing about the relationships between husbands, wives, and children in Ephesians 5:22-6:4, Paul establishes that God s design is that the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church (verse 23). He then goes on to provide specific instruction on how husbands are to fulfill their leadership role, beginning with this important command: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church (verse 25).
This, then, is the husband s supreme responsibility-loving his wife. Using Christ s love for the church as his example, Paul explains in the subsequent verses how the husband s love is to be manifest. Every man is to love his wife with a sacrificial, purifying, caring, unbreakable, Christlike love-all of which we will explore as we continue through this chapter.
A Lack of Male Leadership in the Home
Yet the questions being asked by many today are these: Where are the strong husbands? Where are the loyal, loving, leading husbands and fathers? Where are the men who are willing to stand as the backbone, the solid framework or structure on which you can build a marriage and a family-and, in turn, a society?
Too many men today live in worlds completely isolated from their families. Outside the home, they are aggressive doers and problem solvers who come up with all sorts of innovative ways to make money and obtain promotions, prestige, and respect from the people in their outside world. Yet in the home, for the most part, they are passive, indifferent, and irresponsible. Though they may be present in the home, they are not actively engaged in the everyday dynamics of family life.
Looking at the problem from a historical-sociological perspective, one writer gave this observation:
A series of historical events, beginning at the Industrial Revolution, traversing the search for American independence and the Second Great Awakening, and culminating in Victorianism, has had the net result of disestablishing American men from a true role of fatherhood and moral leadership in our land. The American male, at one time the ever-present guide of the cl