Our Father

Passion City Church DC Podcast

Passion City Church

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🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kicking off a new series called The Lord’s Prayer, Pastor Ben Stuart reminds us what it means to have God as our Father. We were built for proximity to God, and God wants us to be around Him! God, as our Father, shows us that He is strong, loving, and wise towards His children.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church DC podcast. To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta in Washington, D.C.
0:11.5	Visit us online at Passion City Church.com.
0:15.0	Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.
0:20.0	Well, when I was early in my 20s, it dawned on me that the possibility exists that I could become a father.
0:30.0	I wasn't dating at the time, wasn't married, but I was in a situation where I realized, but it is conceivably possible.
0:39.0	And I don't assume that God's going to give me a wife. I didn't assume he was going to give me one. I didn't know that.
0:44.4	But I just thought, you know what, the possibility exists that I could get married and become a dad and have kids.
0:49.2	And when that possibility rose up my heart that that's a distinct possibility. It kind of filled me with
0:53.5	some anxiety because I'm like I don't know what that looks like to be a dad that's present.
0:58.1	And that's not a knock on my dad. My dad was a good guy and taught us good things in a lot of ways but my
1:03.7	parents divorced when I was young and so a lot of those kind of key critical moments
1:08.2	of development in my life my dad wasn't there so to imagine a father present in those key moments. I'm like I don't even know what that would look like I don't even know what I would do
1:17.9	Stepping into that role kind of feels me as anxiety. I don't know how to do that and so I realized well if the possibility exists
1:22.9	that I could enter that role I got to figure something out so I started studying
1:26.4	dads and by doing that I didn't look at the dads I studied, because I realize everyone loves to give advice.
1:34.0	And there may be guys be like, I'll tell you the secret, you're like, yeah, how's that working out with your kids?
1:37.0	Right? So like, I don't necessarily believe what you're going to say.
1:39.0	Let's just see what's happening with the children.
1:41.0	So I would watch people's kids. And I was a youth pastor of the children. So I would watch people's kids and I was a youth pastor at the time and I started
1:45.3	watching these kids and I would look for the ones that I just thought were well-adjusted
1:49.5	human beings and sure enough there were several and the ones that I was drawn to they had this wonderful mix of humility and confidence
1:59.7	That they confidently walked in the room like shoulders back head up happy to meet you but they didn't stroll in that they
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