Never pray with them. Never have Bible study with them. Don't correct them when they're wrong. Don't do any of that and wonder why my son hasn't made anything of his life.

Dr Tony Evans says many problems young people face can be traced back to a leadership vacuum.

All the kids lose when the father is nowhere to be found.

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.

Lots of men Urban Alternative.

Lots of men have children,

but that doesn't automatically qualify them as fathers.

Today, Dr Evans talks about the job description

that goes along with that title. Let's join him.

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. We're introduced in one verse to a father.

First Chronicles chapter 7.

We are given the genealogy of the descendants of a man named Asher.

Asher, according to verse, he has four boys and the daughter.

It's got five children.

Asher is a special man. It's got five children.

Asher is a special man because of the heritage he built,

particularly through his four sons,

since that's what's being referred to here,

what happened through the sons.

The first thing we read about Asher

is that the sons of Asher is that the sons of Asher were the heads of the father's houses. The first

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