Satan's strategy has always been to remove men.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about the importance of fathers, faith, and family.

If he can remove them from their strategic place.

That he knows he's got a hands up in cultural disintegration.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

Notwithstanding the work I does behind the scenes, the Christian faith is always just one generation away from extinction.

Well, today Dr Evans lays out some practical ways fathers can build a spiritual legacy that's worth passing

on to our sons and daughters.

Let's join him as he gets started.

Some 40% of children in America grow up without a dad in the home.

If you're an African American that jumps up to 63%

and if you live in the innermost sanctums of the inner city

in some places it can climb as high as 70.

Satan's strategy has always been to remove men.

If he can remove them from their strategic place,

that he knows he's got a hands up

in cultural disintegration.

There are three things I want to share with you

from Genesis 18 verse 19.

That is at the heart of my message today centered to fathers, but hopefully valuable to all.

For I have chosen him, Abraham, God says, in order that he might command his children and his household after him

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