And happy Father's Day to, to our, our dads. this is Father's Day, and being Father's Day, we want to take a moment to recognize the dads that are with us and to express our appreciation to you. One of the things that we say here at Cornerstone, is that if you are a father, welcome to the pastorate. And we believe that that is is biblical.
If you are a father, then you are the head of a household, and as a man who's in that particular position, you are to be a pastor of your household, of your wife and children, and the single best way that you serve the church body is by leading your household well and being a good and godly shepherd to your wife and, and children. In Ephesians chapter 6, verse 4, the apostle Paul looks at all the children in the Ephesian church and ponders what needs to be done with them. And he then turns to the dads and says, Fathers, you bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. That calling is a calling that is God lays upon you, and that doesn't mean you're the only one who teaches them or even technically that you're their only Father.
We're taught in First Timothy that we are the household of faith. We're not just a collection of families. We are the family of God. And in 1 Timothy 5 we're told to relate to older men as fathers and older women as mothers and to our peers in Christ as brothers and sisters in the Lord.
So I, as a dad, I need to assume my responsibility to teach my children, but I should relish the fact that my children have other spiritual father and mother figures and brothers and sisters in the church that play a significant role in In their life. And so that's the balance that we try to strike here at at Cornerstone. And I want you as dads to be honored by the fact that God has chosen you to be the one who brings up your children. He picked you over your seminary trained pastor....
