I just want to build a strong family and then that's good enough, but it's really family on

mission.

Hey guys, welcome to the five-minute fatherhood podcast.

I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip

you on your journey as a father

to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.

What's up guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So how do you know when family is

becoming an idol? So some of the conversations we have with people

is they see that we really love this idea and design of family that God created as a multi-generational

team on mission. But Jesus had some incredibly harsh things to say to people who are putting

family ahead of their discipleship

or ahead of his lordship. And so a lot of times people look at this and they're like,

is this like a contradiction? Like should we even be talking about family? I mean,

Jesus said such intense things about family. And so one of the things that we just wanted to

sort of dig into here is to say, you guys,

it is possible that family becomes an idol.

And one of the ways that Jesus really addressed his lordship to people was he would oftentimes

pick out the one thing that was a really good thing often, but that they were making an ultimate

thing.

And he would use that to discern

whether or not they were going to submit to his lordship and to his discipleship. And so family for

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