In his sermon 'Take Dominion Over Every Moment,' Alexander Strauch emphasizes the crucial role of parents, especially fathers, in guiding their children within a secular society. He highlights the importance of fathers being teaching figures, drawing on the biblical example from Deuteronomy 6. Strauch encourages fathers to engage their children in meaningful conversations during everyday activities like car rides and family dinners. He shares a personal example of maintaining family interaction by ensuring that his family ate supper together every night. During these times, he would lead discussions about current events and school experiences, fostering an environment of open communication. Additionally, he would collect prayer requests from his children and pray with them, demonstrating active spiritual leadership. Strauch warns against passivity, urging parents to be proactive in their teaching and leadership roles.

First of all, I think fathers and mothers must make their children aware of where they are today and where our Christian community fits in our modern, what I would call humanistic, secular society. So fathers particularly, go to Deuteronomy 6, they must be teaching fathers. That's so important. I can't say anything more than you need to be teaching fathers. And like in Deuteronomy 6, grab all the normal contacts you have in life.

You're driving in a car, you're going to bed at night, you're having supper, you engage the children in conversation. For example, if I can give an example, our own four children growing up, one rule we had is every night we would make sure in our busy lives, we always ate supper together. And at the supper table, I engendered conversation about the news, about things they're hearing in school, and we would talk about them. I wanted them to see their father leading in conversation. And every night, I would go around the table and get their prayer requests and pray.

I wanted them to see their Father praying, taking leadership. And so the negative part would be you cannot be passive. You must be active and teach, I love the term teaching father. Yeah.