How do fathers raise their children in a Christ-centered environment?

Jeff Pollard explains in this video that when God appoints a man to be the husband of his wife and instructs him to love her as Christ loves the church, it is an astonishing requirement. To try to get the modern American man to understand what it means to live as a self-sacrificing husband is still a great challenge.

We have been so brainwashed and enculturated by today's culture that many men, husbands, and fathers don’t know how to create a Christ-centered environment to raise their children in. They don’t understand the value of family worship. Christian fathers must desire to bring their children up in a home where Christ is honored. Fathers must read Scripture to their children and both parents ought to pray for their children.

Colossians 3:17 (NKJV) – “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

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.