The Losers Are Your Responsibility

Summary:

A godly dad doesn't win every game, but he aims for a positive trajectory.

The losers are apathy and negativity, not other families or kids. The goal is to defeat evil and negativity.

Being a better dad than others or than last year isn't the metric for progress.

Being faithful and staying in the arena is what matters.

Glations 6:9 is an important verse for many dads.

Transcript:

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Godly dad does his thing, doesn't mean every single day he wins every single game. But it does mean over time, there is this trajectory that's a healthy and positive trajectory. And you know, the loser is is not the other family. It's not the other kids. It's the losers are apathy. The losers are your responsibility. The losers are, you know, it's the evil and the negative of this world. That's who we want to defeat. You know, those are the losers that we want to defeat out there. I'm not trying to be a better dad than Lawson Brown. I'm not trying to be. I'm not even necessarily. This will make shock some of our listeners. We're going to have all these guys stop listening to the show right this minute, but I'm not even necessarily trying to be a better dad, you know, than I was last year. Like that's not necessarily my metric for whether I'm making progress as a dad. My metric is am I being faithful? Is one of the one of the points I want to score is I want to score, you know, the points that are the faithful points. I want to be the dad who stays in the arena, right? Who continues to right to slug it out. Glation six nine. I share that verse with probably more more dads. I just shared it. Golly twice this week with with some dads. And I share

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