This episode of the Kings Hall is brought to you by backwards planning financial, alpine gold, MaxD trailers, salt and strings butchery, Reformation Heritage Books, Premier Body Armor, and our supporters at patreon.com. com. I'm In his book, Man of the House, Chris Wiley argues for a model of the Christian household that would seem foreign to many evangelicals today.

Wiley argues that a father, in the Roman style of Potter Familius is the heart

of a household and a healthy society, and here's the crucial point. His role is to create a household

that is economically productive. While Christians today are quicker to acknowledge many of the

spiritual roles that a father must carry out, and these are no doubt important.

Wiley rightly asserts that fathers must also establish well-ordered, productive homes that bind

the family together in economic pursuits. The knee-jerk reaction is to think this means everyone

starts a hobby farm, but that's not really the point.

There are a plethora of ways that a father can work within the grain of his household to establish productivity, build wealth, and pass on vocations to his sons.

Among other things, this means fathers need to understand and rightly apply the right use of real property

and the work ethic that is to be

employed in the aim of creating a home economy. The goal of all of this is to create

multi-generational household structures that leave a lasting impact. Traditionally, the Christian

household served many roles. It was a nursing home, a school, a charitable institution,

an apothecary, a place of warmth and hospitality, and dozens of other things as well.

Wiley writes, people in a household shelter each other by working together and protecting each other.

It is the working together that makes a household an economy, and it is the protection that makes it a polity.

We don't think of houses that way anymore, largely because the economy has moved out of the house.

One thing we can say for modern life is that it has a way of cutting things up.

We work downtown, we get our food at the grocery store, we go down the block to learn at school, and we get

on a plane to go somewhere and relax.

Our lives are divided up among highly specialized institutions, but a household is a general

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