Like Father, Like Sons

I have been a daddy for all of two-and-a-half years. Why, then, did I write a book on parenting? And why should I expect anyone to read it?I love the men and women that make up The Paradox Church. I wrote this book specifically for the young parents of The Paradox Church. As a relatively new parent myself, I was blown away by the grace of God that has revealed to me, ever more clearly, my adoption as His son. I do not want any of our people to miss that opportunity. I want our young fathers and mothers to see the Father’s love for them.It is evident that God has ordained our church to be a place where He sends very broken people. The amount of abuse and rape, pornography, and sexual sin that we deal with is heartbreaking. Our prayer in planting the church was that God would send us folks who are walking through those very things—and He has—but also that He would be faithful to saturate our Body with great grace, and to flex His power and do a great work in and through us. In the two years of The Paradox Church, through our Redemption Group ministry and other counseling we have done, it is apparent that there is one great deficit that is a common denominator to the majority of struggles our people are facing: Fathers.Many of their fathers were decent men but did not know the Gospel of Jesus, and so they did not lead their families centered on the Person and Work of the Son. Some were abusive or not protective of their children. Some were not even there. The reality is that our new dads and our new moms have not experienced godly parenting. To compound that, the doctrines of “adoption” and “God as our Father” are truths we say we believe but not realities we understand and are transformed by.This book is meant to lay that foundation. There are other books that are far more practical and will answer a lot of questions pertaining to the "how-to's" of biblical parenting; this book is meant to give you clarity to see the True Father. The Christian life is a life lived by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the redemptive work of the Son, and to the Father—He is a Father to the fatherless, and we are His adopted children.Like Father, Like Sons will be released as an e-book and for print through Lucid Books and available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks prior to Father's Day.The Paradox is hosting a Parenting Seminar this Saturday, May 11th, at 9:30am, at the City Life Center next to Buon Girno in Downtown Fort Worth.