Jeff Pollard explains in this video that husbands and fathers need to make it a priority to read Scripture as a family and to pray together. Children ought to go to their last breath remembering that their father wanted them to walk with Christ. It's one thing to voice one's desire to be a Christian family, but it is another thing entirely to actually conduct faithful times of family worship and prayer.

Ephesians 5:2 (NKJV) - "And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma."

When God appoints a man to be the head, to be the husband of his wife, and to love her as Christ loves the church, that's an astonishing requirement. Who's sufficient for these things? And to try to get the modern American male to understand what it means to live as a self-sacrificing head of a wife is still a great challenge. I'm thankful to see the men that the Lord has given enough light to, to really begin to do these things. But we have been so brainwashed, we have been so inculturated, that even some of the men who quote catch the vision really still struggle.

Many fathers say, yes, I don't want my children in public school and I don't want them exposed to so many of these things. But they don't give them a God-saturated world. You know, they're pretty good sometimes at saying, no, don't do this, and we don't want you to do that. But they don't know how to make a big, Christ-centered life to bring their children up in. They don't often seem to understand the eternal value of family worship and taking those children every night, even if it's just for a few moments, and holding them and etching into their brains by the power of the Holy Spirit, Daddy holding me and reading the scriptures to me, Daddy holding me and praying that Jesus would open my heart.

I mean, children ought to go to their last breath remembering that Daddy wanted them to walk with Jesus. So It's one thing to get on board and say, yeah, we want to be a homeschooling family, and we want our children not to be exposed to all this wicked stuff. But this is missing the central point. The point is we want to bring our children up in a home where Christ is honored, where our children know and understand that day by day, Daddy's going to read the Scriptures to me, Mommy is going to pray with me. So dads, they are important.

And I see signs that some of them are growing, but I don't see enough, even in some of the age-integrated circles. So that's a very real concern for me.