Head of Household is not an action. It's a command.

Dr. Tony Evans says for every family man there's more to being head of household than checking a box on your tax form.

So if you want to claim the title,

then you also have to claim the responsibility

that goes with the title.

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

Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

It's been said that true leadership is the art of guiding others with integrity, humility, and vision.

And that's part and parcel to the biblical instruction for spiritual leadership in the family.

But today Dr Evans points out that merely calling yourself a leader

is quite different from actually functioning as a leader.

Let's join him as he explains.

Fatherlessness is the scourge of our day.

Children in the United States are not living with their biological fathers.

Children born in the African American community in particular are born to single mothers. Mothers.

Sociologists regularly say that many of the problems associated with poverty,

drug abuse, poor educational achievement, delinquency, imprisonment, and abuse are tied to the absence of fathers.

The Bible makes it clear that you know

when God has cursed a land when its fathers are nowhere to be found.

Indeed fatherlessness is the scourge of our day.

And until this particular scourge of the absent father,

either because he's absent physically or because he physically is there but is absent

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