Did you know Priscilla’s sister and two brothers all serve in ministry, too? When your dad is Dr. Tony Evans, one of the nation’s most respected evangelical leaders, though, are you really surprised? Chrystal Hurst, Priscilla’s sister, is a writer, speaker, and worship leader that has learned a thing or two about how to love your life even when it’s not easy. Her new book dives into how to rescue that girl inside you that you thought you lost. Anthony Evans is one of Christian Music’s premiere male vocalists and songwriters, and worship leaders. He leads worship for Priscilla Shirer Live, The Fervent Tour, and other leading Christian events. Jonathan Evans, former NFL fullback, is now a mentor, author, and speaker serving alongside his father in the local church and with the national ministry.
have you ever had a conversation with
somebody and you’re excited about the
conversation but you’re also a little
nervous at the same time because that
person knows you I mean like for real
really knows you and you know they know
all your business you know all their
business so you’re not exactly sure how
the conversation is gonna go this is
going to be one of those conversations
because I’m talking to my siblings today
members of my own family it’s going to
be a good one
so stay tuned
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hey welcome actually this is a welcome
back because this is a conversation
we’ve already been having if you didn’t
see part one please take an opportunity
to you know search around a little bit
find part one of this conversation
because it was really great we had a
conversation together my sister and I
about some great things that are going
to help you in your life
and we had a lot of fun too and I
figured we want to amp up the fun in the
conversation by adding a couple more
people from from my family and so I
wanted to help you or what want to ask
you to help me to welcome my baby
brother’s help me to welcome Anthony and
Jonathan to the program today we hugging
ok these these are let’s see are we in
birth order we’re not in birth order ok
crystal outline the birth order
situation ok I’m number one you’re
number two three and four best position
in the house Jonathan why is number four
the best position in the house y’all
know the parents are already tired by
the time I get there I can do anything
get away with anything it doesn’t matter
anymore I’m I get there so it’s good
okay so Jonathan while you’re talking
about parents being tired and parents in
general tell them who our parents are
for people who don’t know and sort of
about you know our upbringing
well doctors Tony and doctors Louis
Evans they’re our parents our upbringing
was great there’s a lot of things I
don’t know cuz a lot of things happened
before I got there all I knew is when I
got there the party was already
happening it was really fun something
that we all talk about is the table you
know that was the most fun for me
because being at the table and having my
parents sit down and teach us all the
things getting all in our business my
dad would pull out the Bible and have
everybody read a verse and then try to
tell him what we thought it meant and
then he would be like aunt wrong now let
me tell you what it really means so he
would do that and so we had fun the
dinner table he said my mom would be
like three or four times a week mom
would make sure and Dad will make sure
we were around the dinner table so it
was cool
but I mean great parents most people
asked what does it like to be pastor’s
son I mean you don’t know any different
but at the same time to most people
surprised it’s not it wasn’t overbearing
daddy was very gracious a lot of truth
but a lot of grace yeah and so my mom
was the same way
so our mom was the same way so it was
really good it was really good I got to
join at the right time
good you made the dinner table very fun
though yes oh yeah
there was no boundaries for me yeah
danced at the dinner yeah Jonathan how
would y’all describe John John other
than a character that’s that’s a
character yeah he’s a he’s just funny
well he was really loud growing up he
was a great Michael Jackson impersonator
Jonathan can you just do one Michael
Jackson like that you would do with the
dinner give us 36 now I want to tear my
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but it’s carpet how you gonna slide on
carpet kind of light-hearted always just
sort of down for whatever kind of
brother
okay I’m you know let Jonathan describe
no let me describe me yeah go ahead
well
no Anthony Anthony loves family yeah
okay so this one thing he loves and
protects is his family the other thing
that he loves and protects is his stuff
don’t mess with his stuff I used to go
in his room and I would going we shared
a room it was our room right but I’m
going in there from the den okay and I
try to sneak in there while you weren’t
watching so that I could play with some
of his toys he was older so he had
better toys you know so I got bored with
mine real quick and you know I’d reach
out to touch and tell me don’t touch my
stuff but I mean I understand it now cuz
I have two boys at home and the younger
one is always breaking the older one
stuff so now I’m learning why I was I
was having to deal with it but Anthony’s
real protective of a family he loves his
family who loves his nieces and nephews
I mean he’s just a lovable guy yeah most
of you know Anthony probably in some
foreign fashion from music so Anthony
talk to us a little bit about music and
how that sort of became a part of your
life like why why did you fall in love
with music and how did that become your
career it wasn’t a thing growing up I
was kind of kind of to myself a little
bit quieter I enjoyed animals a lot I
wanted to be a large animal vet when I
grew up that’s what I wanted to do and
my dad heard me singing and at our
church you can’t go to our church
without being involved in a ministry
like you can’t you have to do something
and they heard me sing it and thought I
thought like you’re gonna sing at the
church so long story short I sang my dad
recorded it sent it off to Liberty
University did all this behind the
scenes work and then said hey you have a
full ride to Liberty to be a part of a
PR group and so it’s a full ride so God
says you’re going there yeah so that the
passion for singing followed after that
like my feelings followed my feet on
that one because I was not into singing
at all that my first year I didn’t like
it because I was it was like rigorous in
for singers wasn’t into it I remember
the directors tell me when I was 18 if
you want to do this for a living you can
he said it way back when I first started
and he knew I didn’t love it that much
but the passion came later on and it’s
the eight albums later and a lot of
events with my family and a lot of tours
and stuff of and I
juliette now yeah that’s awesome that’s
great that’s great
and so how would you describe crystals
personality no no your name isn’t why
don’t have to be me cuz you’re not going
interviewer yes but we’re going in order
so right so who’s gonna describe me I
will do it so for those of you who are
wondering Priscilla growing up out of
the four of us she got in trouble the
most which I know we’d all agree on that
she’s trashy was like oh my god I used
to hang this yeah so
Priscilla got in trouble the most but
it’s cuz she had this unbridled huge
personality and it was just unbridled so
she talked to whole bunch and now what’s
amazing to me we do these events
together because she talks now she talks
to say him out but it just all makes a
lot of sense it’s it’s it’s great so she
just had a huge person she still has a
big personality and very independent you
weren’t few weren’t
outwardly fearful of much to me like you
wanted to do if you wanted to do
something you would figure out a way to
do it that’s just that was the bottom
line
you you you knew what you wanted and you
would just go after it and that’s that
was kind you me I’m gonna get you yes
okay well I kind of already described
Olympic crystal as a perfectionist
overachiever overachiever for sure super
smart super smart yeah we just kind of
were all underneath Crystal’s shadow of
perfection in our house right yeah yeah
but it’s not about you set a high
standard though okay that’s right
what are your fondest okay that’s a good
thing
what are your fondest memories of what
are you well let’s see I was gonna ask
you you said of crystal so that made me
think what of our fondest memories of
each other and the reason why I’m asking
that question is because people really
do ask us a lot about our family they
want to know about our parents so we’ll
talk more about them but they also want
to know why we’re so close we have a
very very close-knit family which which
I thought was really normal I thought
that was normal – yeah I thought that
was normal and I thought pastors stayed
at their churches I thought yeah like
and
I went to college did I realized that
pastors switched in and out because our
dad started that church 40s 40s 41 41
years ago yeah he just stayed there so
and and he also instilled in us that
family is that’s it that’s the bottom
line that’s what’s at the end of the day
after ministries and books are honest if
families what it is so it would be like
Anthony play with your brother and I’d
be like no I don’t want to play with
your brother he’s the only brother you
have in the world like that he would
instill that in me and now that’s that’s
what I think I have one of these in the
whole universe that’s how I think of him
and I have two of them so I can pick
which one you know but no so daddy was
just real big on the family thing my
fondest memory is every August we would
get packed up into a van it was a
minivan sometimes and we would drive
from Dallas all the way to Baltimore
where my dad grew up because every year
drive the whole way he drive through the
night and we would have these crystal be
reading a book I’d be watching a movie I
don’t know what you’d be doing I don’t
know Brighton the boy a letter or
something and no so he instilled in us
just family is what matters so that trip
to me and spending all of our time
Rexton and family in Baltimore that is
my fondest memory of growing up what he
instilled in us is it really I think
just to be clear I think we should
describe like you just said I was a lot
of work for our parents growing up I was
a lot of work but I think we should
describe a little bit more what we
looked like for example at that dinner
table or in that minivan and the reason
is because I think people see us now and
they have this vision that we must have
been just we must not be like their
family you know what I mean where their
kids are rowdy or there they can’t even
imagine having devotions with their kids
because their kids won’t sit still long
enough and so they think that we must
have been sitting around the table like
little chair and we’re giggling and
cracking jokes yes and you need like
crystals stop it I’d be like no that
kind of situation right yeah yeah we
weren’t sitting there taking it all in
we were we were being kids yeah we’re
being kids right this is out of control
this is out of control as my house is
now I have a nine year old a seven year
old
we roll in a two-year-old exactly we
thought it was all good when we had to
but we didn’t know that that was
man-to-man defense that third one but
now we’re at the table and and I’m
redoing the same thing because that’s
what we knew so I’m sitting at the table
my wife sits down you know I’m trying to
have Jonathan the second we called him
Jay to just throw a little swag on it
John Jay to he’ll try to pull out the
chair for Kelsey so we we’re doing that
table stuff but it’s a disaster I mean I
literally have two to three minutes and
then I find myself getting up doing a
song and a dance to keep their attention
there’s food flying across the table and
now I realize how dedicated my our
parents are yeah you know to the same
thing over and over again and when they
had to say Jonathan and my dad would
always check with my mom to see if it
was okay you know what we’re gonna do
here you know so it was chaos but but
now that’s what we remember yeah we
remember and that’s what we’re still
doing so that’s a big deal I think I’m
so glad you said that because I really
think that frees a lot of people up to
know that it’s okay for it to look like
chaos your kids still catch this dude
can they catch what you’re doing
intentionally and deliberately over the
long haul even going on vacation we look
back on it fondly now but those long
road trips in the minivan with all four
of us is chaos it was chaos you know but
they were just they just did it every
summer whether we you know we didn’t
have to like it that was their choice as
parents one that rubbed off on I think
our parents were not discouraged with
with them with things that would come
across as mundane or super repetitive as
a kid like they they just kept our dad
especially he’s very like stick to it
things don’t bother they don’t throw him
way off and I think them continuing to
do that same thing even though things
were chaotic with us still instilled in
us like what what it is now like they
didn’t go these kids aren’t paying
attention let’s not do this anymore they
kept doing it and and we now cherish
this more than anything
yeah so what what’s um something that is
actually hard for you now because of
because of the way we were raised
a challenge that you haven’t made me it
made me naive well we’re talking
speaking about at the beginning I didn’t
understand how to do ministry or had it
because I didn’t understand what people
were going through or I would go to it
like he said about pastors coming in and
out and stuff like that was like what is
this
you don’t mean or someone what they felt
with not having a father around and all
of those different things so I had to
learn those through experience and I had
to learn to be you know more grace and
not less truth but more grace on top of
truth where I would be like well this is
this is kind of the way it is and you
know God had to take me through my own
set of circumstances I realized you’re
not better than anybody and just because
you came from that little house where
you know everything the Brady Bunch
that you have your own set of issues and
once I realized that I was able to
minister better so he had to actually
take me out of that nest you know to
allow me to have my own experiences
where I wasn’t riding the coattails of
my parents relationship with God I had
to have my own yeah because I didn’t
realize until I left the nest that I was
riding there coattail I didn’t have a
relationship it’s exact so that that’s
kind of exactly what I have to say I
realized in college that God does not
have grandkids which is what you were
just saying about that photos yeah like
if that was the hardest realization for
me to realize that oh god doesn’t have
grandkids after figured this out myself
and I felt this total despair when I
realized that me being Tony Evans jr.
meant nothing I don’t know why I thought
that what thought it did but just my
environment was super and I realize I
had to make decisions for myself mm-hmm
as it relates to my relationship with
the Lord that was a weird a weird phase
in my life and then I realized that
church unintentionally I had a loud
church environment not my parents to
build up a lot of pretense and me and or
guarded or present this thing make make
everybody think everything’s good and I
was kind of at a point I’m and I’m the
super emotional kid I say this all the
time like out of all of us I’m the the
edgy one that has all these emotional
issues it was like I look like a
football player but some days I have the
emotions of a ballerina or whatever
I had to deal with a lot of a lot of
things inside of me and had to be honest
vulnerable and authentic with myself
where I was at that time and what I
needed to do in spite of how good I was
at pulling it up and putting it together
because that’s how we grew up
we’re just preachers kids you got to
just you just know how to do that so
that was very you say about trash in the
back you hold it like you oh yeah I had
a friend in high school who like it’s I
should yeah I’m not gonna say the name
that’d be weird
their house was not very clean but their
mom didn’t want to put the trash out on
the sidewalk so everybody would know how
much trash was in their house so they
necessarily cleaned the house so they
kept a bit just gave became like a
hoarding situation like a horrible
situation because they didn’t want
everybody outside to see what was going
on in the inside and I did that with
myself I kept a lot of stuff inside
because I didn’t want to put the trash
out and let everybody see that with all
that trash was in there and what I have
had to realize is that my objective and
it’s not concerned anymore with what
everybody’s gonna think I need to be I
need to make sure that I get stuff out
and know that the ultimate trash man who
recycles everything is coming by and
will grab it and repurpose everything
that I put out and give to him okay do
you think that your kids can be in too
much of a bubble that in some way it it
hampers their ability to function well
when they leave to go to college for
example because none of us went to
college and were Saints by the way for
anybody that might be thinking you
wouldn’t do self no I was great you were
great in college for all four of us not
me here the rest of us you know didn’t
go off to college and make all the right
choices so do you think that the fact
that we were in a little bit of a bubble
meaning that our life sort of revolved
around Christian circles you know we
were youth group you know what I mean
we were in private school up until our
freshman year or so did you go to public
school before freshman year
you did what did you went to a lot of
schools if it well I was at a dill
Turner and the subway third grade that’s
what y’all made fun of my laugh yeah and
then after that yeah I went to another
school where I had to get a little help
there hit the five grade twice but not
because I failed I had started school
early I started school when I was four
so my parents said well you started too
early so they repeated so they made me
repeat the fifth grade twice which was
kind of weird friends friends wise but
that does good for you but but it was
good yeah it was good and so but yeah I
did a different track yeah last kid yeah
we heard about that that you also got to
eat out a lot
yep we’ve never eaten never ate out and
you were like we never ate at home we’re
always out we’re spending money having a
good time about time by time I got you
know kind of in high school y’all were
all gone yeah and basically Anthony was
kind of there so my mom was like I’m
done we’re going on where we going yeah
every day so what’s next say this my my
oldest son I’ll never forget we were
watching TV he was probably about eight
years old and and and we were talking
about color and race and I used us in a
sentence to describe us being black
people okay and he looked at me and he
said I’m not black and I said what do
you mean you’re not black and he said
I’m not black I’m brown my skin is is
ten and because of just of where we were
and whoever hanging with it like he
didn’t have just to your point about the
bubble is and I think that’s kind of how
it works for us it’s like what do you
mean there’s there’s people out here who
really don’t know Jesus like outside of
the church like well you know that but
being engaged so so I think our parents
did a great job of being intentional
about connecting us with other people
but I think that’s one of the things I
think that I’ve tried to do even more so
with my kids just just getting them out
of the because I’m not you know on staff
at our church in the sense where this
our whole life and we’re doing other
things I think you have to be
intentional about exposing your kids and
the best way to expose your kids is to
expose yourself that whatever you’re
doing whoever you’re engaging with that
your kids are engaging the in the same
way okay so do you think that do you
think in a way that we were kind of
protected too much from or from the
exposure that you’re talking about just
exposure people that are just lived
differently than we live could have been
what could have been but I don’t think
that they were trying to do I think they
were just living their life that deal
but you know I’m kind of big on this we
talked about this from time to time but
and I think y’all talked about it a
little bit but you got to be careful to
not try to take God’s place right you
know God is the one who’s gonna you know
he’s sovereign he’s gonna make these
things happen for them and take them use
everything recycle it to get it so I
think we try to create these
environments to try to pigeonhole to our
kids and to what we see them becoming
and when when it doesn’t happen that way
we feel like we failed but that’s
because you tried to be God and you
can’t do that you can’t try to take his
place and sometimes we have those
situations I was reading I think there’s
Chuck Swindoll grace awakening it’s a
great book yeah and it says for grace
sometimes you have to let people go
because if you don’t get out the way
they won’t experience God you know what
I mean and so we put that weight on
ourselves so I’m raising these kids and
I’m saying I’m gonna teach them I’m
gonna pray for them but you know if Adam
and Eve can mess up the garden what
better environment can you get you know
yeah so so I think that we take their
pressure off of ourselves not to not do
our job but to understand that God will
do his job you sound like you should
pastor a church Don John yeah I mean I
think our parents did a good job I think
we know we all went to public school in
high school and you know then we made
the decisions about what colleges we’d
go to and I don’t I don’t think that
they you know hung on and tried to
protect to the nth degree just by virtue
of who they were and what they were
doing that naturally influenced a lot of
our environment so so I just think that
in the same way that’s what’s going to
happen who
who you’re around as a couple or parents
or whatever that’s what your kids are
gonna be around a lot but I think you
can also be intentional not so much
about getting your kids out there but
getting yourself out there and letting
your kids be engaged with you in that
process what Anthony you said something
interesting a few minutes ago you were
talking about dad
you know recording you and sending it to
Liberty University and really that’s
where your singing career started
because from there Kirk Franklin called
you and wanted you to travel with him
and sing backup for him and then from
there or truth came first your saying
with the singing group called truth I
mean it just dove tailed from there and
now you’re in this career and I’m
wondering if you guys can speak to
because I have a similar story I’ll tell
but speak to how your parents were
influential and where you are now what
what are little connective tissue little
dots you can look back to and see that
maybe you didn’t realize until years
later that they were sort of behind the
scenes helping orchestrate something
that you just thought at the time was
organic but actually no your parents
were there helping you oh sorry no you
were you talking to me everybody okay
yeah well I as you surmised that
question and I thought about the fact
that daddy did put a lot of the dots on
the paper and everything but us watching
him him and our moms work ethic is why
I’m doing what I’m doing today he did
send me to Liberty he did do all that
stuff but my dad and my mom worked
really hard and and thinking now about
how it was back then like we grew up my
dad did Promise Keepers a lot like when
that was real big and he was on a lot of
radio stations that at that time we’re
not playing any African American
anything like Preet nothing so thinking
about that now in how the 80s what that
was for him to be so immersed in that
and be doing that how much work it took
how much criticism came that we didn’t
know because we were protected and
sheltered we I think watching our dad
push into his calling and my and my mom
pushed into his calling in spite of what
people around him are saying that is why
I’m here and why you’re here and why
you’re here and why you’re here yeah
yeah I think my parents well I you know
I knew I was capable in an educational
such
raishin what they called out of me was
one of the it’s the same thing he said
even when I found out I was pregnant he
was just like you’ll be able to keep
climbing they always told me oh crystal
if you’re gonna you’re thinking about
being a lawyer okay well let me let me
connect you with this judge I know like
and he would always say it for me it was
always whatever you want to do your you
had the capacity to go to the highest
level of that so don’t settle for this
God has blessed you with a brain that
works a certain way make sure you shoot
for the top it was always the way he
communicated and I mean if I can just
steal the thunder a little bit just real
quickly he always said to you and you
would get in trouble for talking okay
but you’re a good talker so God can use
something with that Anthony he called
out the singing Jonathan you were always
interested in sports and what our
parents did very consistently and still
do they still do this they see the best
side of whatever is happening and they
call out the best version of that they
say you should do something with that
you should work towards this and if they
have the ability or the capability of
helping us connect the dots even if they
can’t physically do something they say
in the spiritual world I think they do
something because they they speak those
things as though they are they
understand that the power of life and
death lies in the tongue and they have
regularly and consistently spoken life
over us and picking me up in the area
you know and you guys – in the areas
where you’re you’re not good well as for
me it was school right you know my mom
would always you know tell me Jonathan
yours you’re smart as a whip and you’re
gonna be something I’m telling you
you’re gonna be something that’s gonna
be something I don’t know what does home
be there’s gonna be something and so she
was speaking today because I talked
about going all of these different
schools because they were trying to
figure out what to do with me
educationally yeah I was struggle I
wasn’t picking up stuff it started
reading real late you know so they were
trying to figure out what to do they got
me tested and all all types of stuff
that I had to go through and and figure
that out but you know with my dad I just
saw it you know as what does what does
Romans 8 said if God is for you then who
can be against you and in my mind I was
like but do you know who
my dad is though kind of mean like I’m
not doing well but he’s gonna find a way
yeah you know what I mean and so I
failed my AC T so here I am
I’ve got 15 Division one scholarships
for football and all of them are going
away because I can’t pass my SAT and a
CT
so the scholarships are leaving and I’m
like I’m the last kid and Here I am I’m
gonna have to go to Community College
and she went to U of age she was at
Texas A&M he went to Liberty all full
scholarships and I’m gonna fail the
family type thing because I can’t get
the school thing down and Here I am a
senior I still can’t get it down and my
dad was working behind the scenes our
dad was working behind and say I got
four keeper baby I’ll keep saying my
parents might get there but that’s good
because we have this you could preach on
this we have our own individual
relationship so yeah he was working
behind the scenes and he figured out a
way due to the testing that I had when I
was six to get me a no time test right
because the doctor said that the problem
was the time and the pressure if I could
sit so I took that a CT from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m.
diligently I looked at every answer I
mean just just combing through it and
ended up ended up passing the test
getting a Scott full scholarship to
Baylor because he was diligently working
behind the scenes in an area where I was
weak and I’ll echo that too with this
because as you’re talking I was just
thinking about that that diligence and
that thought that that thought that they
were putting in that mindfulness to each
of our uniquenesses so as was mentioned
you know if I would get a demerit or
something from school it was it was
because I was talking and I wasn’t
supposed to be talking and so they
didn’t they didn’t ignore the fact that
I wasn’t being obedient and you know
that I needed to follow the rules I
would be disciplined for that but then
in the next breath there would be a
conversation about the ability to
communicate I mean he would always have
a conversation about like you said what
is what’s the useful part of this and
let’s mold this by the Holy Spirit and
see if this is something God actually
wants to
in your life I did not know until years
and years later let me back up and say
when I was in college every now and then
someone would call and say hey will you
come lead a Bible study that’s really
how a ministry started for me I would
just get a call somebody saying hey
there are 10 women meeting would you
come to a Bible study and I would do
that
but right after I graduated from college
I got a call from the zig ziglar
corporation saying we do a Bible study
every Monday morning would you come into
a Bible study for us well I didn’t know
until two decades later that it’s
because dad had called Zig Ziglar and
had said hey i have a daughter who i
would love to come and do a bible study
for you guys if you will have her and so
that connectedness even with with Zig
for a lot of years he’s like a
grandfather to me you know you don’t
know until looking back that it was it
was dad and mom sort of behind the
scenes just saying you know what this
thing is getting this kid in trouble but
actually this might actually be how the
Lord has wired them and if I have to
look back I would say that that’s one of
the main things in my own parenting now
that I’ve taken away is that the stuff
that’s most frustrating to you now about
whatever kid you’re dealing with that
could be the gift like that could be it
if we’ll just steward it wisely you know
so is there anything else more like that
come to come to your mind funny story
that you remember about any of us at
that time I let you hit the wooden floor
whatever that yes girl she told me to
trust her and fall back into her we had
to be like eight and six seven and five
and I did it once and caught you then I
said no do it again just relax just
relax it just was like you just wanted
to share that yeah I know and thank you
for watching the chat well who’s gonna
say I just think – we have all these
great memories but we I mean we thought
we were kids yeah you know there were
times we didn’t like each other I told
you not to touch my stuff I mean there
was that yeah they were both super bossy
yes very very very boss I don’t recall
that I will say however in
I will say that what’s really cool is
when you sort of live long enough that
you start to just see the faithfulness
of God from one generation to the next
so as she mentioned me falling back into
her arms and hitting the floor the
bedroom that they that happened in yes
was in my parents our first home so from
the time we were born to about seven
years old for me my parents lived in one
house then they moved to another house
which is the house they still live in to
this to this day we spent all of our
childhood there but the house that my
parents first owned were me and crystal
shared a room and this incident happened
that house sort of has stayed in our
family a little small house on a little
back road in Oakland Texas and it kind
of has stayed in our family passing
through different hands but now Karras
who we talked about earlier Karras and
her husband just bought their first home
and their first home is my parents first
home so they just moved into that house
in the last few months they have
renovated that house and so now my our
parents great-granddaughter is now
living in the room where me and crystal
had our first experiences of trusting
each other yes but my point in saying
all of that is I marvel for mom and dad
because how many times in that house
when their kids were little you you guys
weren’t even here yet we’re just little
and you’re like about three at the time
or so how many times did they pray and
say Lord we pray for our kids we pray
for our grandkids we pray for our great
grandkids never knowing that if they
just stuck to the task at hand for 40 50
years here they are now looking at their
great-grandchildren living in the house
where they planted those seeds just came
to the housewarming yeah yeah we just
went to the housewarming there so I just
want to encourage all of you who are in
the midst of raising kids we’re
certainly not we weren’t perfect kids
we’re still not perfect kids but
you weren’t perfect oh I started out
that way though but I just want to
encourage you guys that you know your
kids are picking up stuff they’re
picking up stuff you’re just deliberate
and just intentional just faithful to do
the thing day in and day out your kids
are picking up things that are gonna
affect not only their own lives but
really they’re gonna affect their kids
lives your grandkids who are to come so
even if you feel like you haven’t done
it right up until now you know today is
a great day to start just start just
choose the path that you want to go the
vision you have for your family and then
in incremental steps put things in place
so that you can impact your your kids
and the direction of your generations to
come and the way that you that you want
to and that the Lord is leading you to
thank y’all for flying from Dallas to
Nashville to sit down on my sofa I know
y’all are very very busy people but I
appreciate you spending some time with
me would you guys help me to thank my
siblings
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