- An Invested Father Leads
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:3-4 (ESV)
- An Invested Father Protects
- Physically
- Spiritually
- An Invested Father Encourages
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (ESV)
- An Invested Father Disciplines
A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. Proverbs 13:1 (ESV)
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Proverbs 13:24 (ESV)
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)
- An Invested Father Emphasizes Christ over everything
14 “Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:14-15 (ESV)