So the most important job I'll ever have in my life is guess what and you two being a parent. Yeah, being a mom and a dad. Yeah, I mean, you know

I just found out after 30 years of leading this church that I can be replaced in a week. I

Mean a new guy comes in and he's great and people love him and think wow who is that guy that used to be here

But let me tell you something you can't replace me or you in our home

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If we were gone and you know you got remarried or I did and you know our kids had a different dad

It still would never be their dad. It's that critical of a position and yet

We often don't consider it the most important thing we're doing on our planet. It's so interesting that you say that because

That's a weighty conversation that I feel as a parent like oh, no, that's true

That role that God has called us to is so important and then I feel like and I'm messing it up

You know, that's why we wrote the book no perfect parents because we weren't perfect and there aren't any perfect parents

There's only one perfect parent and it's God and so you see think about what we're trying to do as a parent trying to raise

As we said earlier warriors

Who take our legacy and change the world for good for the kingdom

Real critical passage that we mentioned earlier is Deuteronomy 6 which really lays out you know how to do this

It's really a

Vision and a mission of what a parent is but how actually you do it and we mentioned before

That it says you know hero israel the Lord our God the Lord is one you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your might

And then listen to this parents and these words that I command you today shall be on your heart

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house

And when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise and so

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