Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
oftentimes grown up in the father’s home
you you don’t know you’re lonely you
don’t know you’re sad about not having a
dad you just know that someone’s missing
there’s masculinity muscle is it
physical being I’ve got to work and take
care of business so that I bring home
the bacon and if I can feed my family
then I’ve been a good dad and that is
not the most important thing our kids
need see we need Kingdom and rising
because we got Kingdom in missing we’ve
been missing and we can’t find it why
are we in here we own this we own the
responsibility of calling a culture in
decline back calling men back
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I think we have a cultural picture of a
man I’ve been the toughest guy in the
road of being the John Wayne type of man
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so what we have missing the discipleship
and who’s subbing for church membership
women we’ve settle for people coming to
church are coming to events not people
ordering their lives comprehensively
under the rule of God we pick and choose
the parts of God we want to comfortable
with
a lot of times like my quiet space was
like you know dinner’s over
I just popped my ear plug my earphones
in it was kind of an escape for me just
not being emotionally present I need man
to know that they’re not alone and it’s
not embarrassing because man will go
into a cave and they would die silently
that’s great accolades a professional
football but don’t think that’s life
don’t think that’s the end all I think
men need to learn how to learn what it
means to be a man what it means to be a
godly father it’s our responsibility to
go back and mentor that’s the story it’s
understanding legacy and continuing to
work to leave one it starts with
surrender and being vulnerable and
authentic and transparent enough to
admit where you are and allow Jesus to
meet you where you are U+ God is enough
you can get up and walk and be exactly
who you were created and called
you