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Announcer: Today on Family Talk:<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Welcome, everyone, to Family Talk, the broadcast division of the James Dobson Family Institute. I'm your host, Dr. James Dobson.<br />
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Today, we're going to continue a presentation from Dr. Jerry Kirk. Yesterday, he talked about the Lordship of Jesus, and why we can trust Him with our very lives. Here is a short recording of his statement.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: It's a wonderful life when we know and believe and pray and live the word of God. It's a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life when we know that to love God is to let God love us, to open ourselves up to how much He loves us. It's a wonderful life when we're free to be real. There's power when we're free to be real. It's a wonderful life when Jesus is in charge.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: That was Dr. Jerry Kirk. In a moment, Dr. Kirk is going to explain how this idea of complete devotion to God led him to start the Prayer Covenant Ministry. This organization encourages Christians to pray for God's will for themselves and for their fellow believers.<br />
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Today, Dr. Kirk is also going to remind us of the faithfulness of God when we listen and obey His word.<br />
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But before we hear the remainder of this message, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Jerry Kirk. This is one of my best friends. I love this man. And I've known him for I don't know how many years. This goes back to 1986 when we stood shoulder-to-shoulder fighting against the pornography scourge in the 1980s, that's far worse now than it was then. Dr. Kirk started the National Coalition Against Pornography, known as Pure Hope, and the Religious Alliance Against Pornography. He poured his life into that epidemic. Now both of these organizations continue to address the growing sexualization of culture, and it empowers believers to remain pure.<br />
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Dr. Kirk also served as senior pastor at College Hill Presbyterian Church for 18 years.<br />
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Without any further delay, here is the remainder of Dr. Kirk's message on this edition of Family Talk.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: Well, I was serving as a pastor in New Wilmington, and I was asked to give that evangelism report. And I said to the committee, "I'd be glad to do it if you'll let me do it my way." And they looked at me a little askance, and I said, "I want to take laymen with me. I want them to sing it. I want them to tell it. I want them to tell what Christ is doing in their lives. I want it to be so exciting that by the end of that evangelism report the entire synod will explode into a standing ovation."<br />
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So, I recruited Linda Pickleseimer, who was the pianist, and Ed and Joy Tobin. He sang the lead in The Music Man, and she sang the lead in The Sound of Music. And then I went after Don Rehberg, the controller of J &amp; L Steel. He had 1500 employees under him. I tried to reach him, and I couldn't get through. I was surprised, because Don was a good friend. He called back a half an hour later. He said, "Jerry, I'm sorry I couldn't take your call. But at that very moment, one of my managers was on his knees in my office giving his life to Christ. I wouldn't have interrupted that for anything in the world."<br />
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We picked him up on the turnpike, and headed for Wilson College, where the synod meeting was going to be. I was driving along, and I said, "Don, tell me what the Lord's been doing in your life lately?" An hour and a half later, he was still telling one story after another story after another story of men coming to Christ and being transformed. He and Kerwin Flannery had gone to Sam Shoemaker's last sermon at Music Hall, get changed, get together, and get going. They turned to each other and they said, "We've been changed by Christ. Let's get together in order to get going!"<br />
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So, they go to the church at noon on Wednesday. They get down on their knees. Here are two of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh, and they said, "Lord, we don't know how you want us to get going, but whatever you want, we want to do it." They got up and they began to think, "What might we do?" And they said, "Maybe there's some men in our church out of work. Let's go to the pastor and see. Maybe we could pray with them and help them find work."<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: This was back in 19 ... Mid '60s. Sure enough, a number of men out of work. So they ... Pastors invited them to come meet with Don Rehberg and Kerwin Flannery. And what he said to us was this: "We told these men we don't know how to help you get a job. But if you'll give as much of yourself as you can to as much of Christ as you understand, we'll give our lives to Christ with you. And we will pray for you every day until you get work."<br />
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The first week, five men came. The second week, they came back. One of them had found work, and one of them had found hope. In the next three years, 1800 men had found Christ and had found work.<br />
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I said, "Don Rehberg, I don't know a preacher in America that could tell the kind of stories you've just told, and you're the busiest layman I know."<br />
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And he stuck out his chin and he said, "Do you want to be that kind of a preacher?"<br />
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I said, "Don, I'd give my right arm to be that kind of a preacher."<br />
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He said, "Do you want to enter into a 30-day prayer covenant?"<br />
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And I said, "What's that?"<br />
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He said, "Simple: together, we just give our lives to Christ. We say, 'Jesus, we want you to be the Lord. We want to seek you. We want your will to be accomplished in our lives.' And then at the beginning of every day for 30 days, we pray for each other. 'Lord, help Jerry get out of the way. Fill him with your Spirit. Use him as you've never used him before, Lord. Bring glory to yourself through him.' And then at the end of 30 days, we'll check in with each other and see what the Lord's done."<br />
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"Oh, Don. I want to enter into a prayer covenant."<br />
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We get to Wilson College, we go up into a dorm room, we get down on our knees, and say, "Lord, whatever you need to do to change me, I pray you would do it. Fill me with yourself. Be the Lord of my life."<br />
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Now I don't know what I was doing before that. But from then on, almost everybody that came into my office for counseling, for one thing or another, wanted to enter into a 30 day prayer covenant.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: One of those women was named Alice. She said, "Jerry, I am having marital problems."<br />
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And I said, "Well, Alice, do you want to give those marital problems to the Lord?"<br />
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"Yes."<br />
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"Do you want to give yourself to the Lord?"<br />
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"Yes."<br />
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"Do you want to enter into a 30-day prayer covenant?"<br />
<br />
"What's that?"<br />
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I said, "It's simple: we just give ourselves to Christ, together, right here in my office, as Lord. And then we recommit at the beginning of every day for 30 days, and say, 'Jesus, do with me whatever you want. I'm yours.' And then we come back and share what God's done, and we pray for each other."<br />
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She came back in two weeks. She said, "Jerry, can I see you?"<br />
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And I said, "Sure."<br />
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She said, "I wasn't honest with you when we met."<br />
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I said, "Tell me about it."<br />
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She said, "I didn't tell you why we were having marriage problems. I was having an affair, and I can't stand this prayer covenant."<br />
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I said, "Now do you want to really enter into a prayer covenant? God wouldn't let you live with that deceit."<br />
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She said, "Oh, yes."<br />
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She and her husband, last I heard, were doing wonderfully. They came all the way to Cincinnati to visit me. Jesus transforms people's lives.<br />
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The College Hill Presbyterian Church came to me and asked me to be their pastor, and I said, "No." I wasn't done in New Wilmington. And they came a second time, and I said, "No. God has not called me." Praise God they came a third time, and I said, "Yes." You know what happened? The Sunday ... The day before I started at College Hill, I preached at the first church I ever pastored. And I had the first altar call in 150 years in that Presbyterian Church, and 17 people came forward and asked Jesus to be the Lord of their lives in new ways: "Lord, I'm yours. You can do with me whatever you want." And so I started College Hill with 17 people praying, "Lord help Jerry get out of the way. Fill him with your Spirit. Be the Lord of his life. Use him, Lord. Use him, Lord."<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: Well, what happened was, on the following Friday night, there was the middle-aged couples gathering. And Bob Scheck, 45 years of age and the executive with Procter &amp; Gamble, gave his witness as to how he had come to know Christ, he had given his life to Christ, and now he was leaving Procter &amp; Gamble and going to Princeton Seminary to prepare for the ministry. And I'm the new pastor. I'm 35, I looked like I'm 25, and I'm trying to be balanced and mature and not shake up the place too quickly. And I'm praying the whole time, "Lord, you don't want me to do something crazy."<br />
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And God had touched us. And so I had a Presbyterian altar call. Do you know what that is? A Presbyterian altar call. I said to the group, I said, "I can tell that some of us have been deeply touched. And if you'd like to talk about it, come on back into the parlor after the meeting." That's a Presbyterian altar call. You know what happened? 16 people came back into the parlor. And I merely turned to the woman on my left, Lois, and I said, "Lois, tell us why you've come back into the room." And we just systematically went all the way around. We were about two-thirds of the way around, and a 17th guy came into the parlor. He was so shook up he went out drinking after the meeting. But he came back to the parking lot, and he saw we were still there. And so he came in.<br />
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Let me just give you two stories out of that. I won't use the name. I'll use the wrong name. I'll call her June. June entered into the prayer covenant that night. We all did. I now had 34 people praying for me daily, that Jesus would be the Lord of my life and that He'd change me in whatever way He wanted. It's His business, not mine.<br />
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And June came to see me two weeks later. And she said, "Jerry, I've got a problem."<br />
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I said, "What's that?"<br />
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She said, "I have the problem of frigidity."<br />
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And I looked her in the eye and I said, "You really have a problem." That's not what she was expecting from me.<br />
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She said, "What do you mean?"<br />
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I said, "That's a problem of sin, not a psychological need. Your body ..." I read to her 1 Corinthians 7: "Your body belongs to your husband. His body belongs to you. Frigidity is not just a psychological problem, it is a spiritual problem."<br />
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"Well, what can I do about it?"<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: I said, "Would you believe a 30 day prayer covenant?"<br />
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She said, "You really mean that?"<br />
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I said, "Absolutely. God loves every part of our lives. He does not compartmentalize."<br />
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"Can He do something to help me with my frigidity?"<br />
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"You bet."<br />
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We got down on our knees. We prayed. We said, "Lord Jesus, do with us whatever you want. We're yours. And touch June's body and mind and spirit."<br />
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She came back a few weeks later. She said, "Do you know what my husband said to me?"<br />
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And I said, "No. I have no idea. I have no idea what your husband said to you."<br />
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She said, "'What in the world did that guy tell you over there?' He said, 'Whatever it is, he ought to bottle it and sell it.'"<br />
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And what do you think? He came to know Christ. She was trying to talk to him and feed him tracts and all that kind of stuff. All she needed to do was obey the Lord. Let the Lord be the center.<br />
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Beloved, in the next eight months, over 700 people gave their lives to Christ or recommitted their lives to Christ as the Lord of their lives. I was in the middle of a revolution. Only God. Only God.<br />
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But eight months later, I said to Gil Hopkins, I said, "How would you like to take over our youth group?"<br />
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And he said, "Oh, Jerry, would you trust me with those kids' lives?"<br />
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I said, "I sure would. Jesus is Lord, isn't He?"<br />
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"Yeah."<br />
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That was in early May. Within four weeks, he had 80 kids coming. We'd had no youth work. Within 10 months after that, we had 700 kids coming every Thursday morning for bacon and eggs and cereal and fruit, and then singing and the gospel message. Kids were meeting Christ all over this ... That's just two of those 17.<br />
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Beloved, I don't know each of you. I wish I did. But I want you to know you can get in touch with the power of Almighty God to use you, to begin to change the people's lives around you. This risen Lord, at the right hand of the Father, is willing to live in you and to speak through you and to love through you.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: I was asked to speak at Montreat, South Carolina, where Billy Graham lives. And I was not a plenary speaker: I was just a seminar speaker. And I had two seminars in the afternoon on this theme. I said, "How would you like to begin to touch the lives of people all around you? How would you like to call them to know Jesus as the Lord of their lives? How would you like to begin to see the miracles of God's grace in all the people around you?" And so on. And man, a bunch of people said they'd kind of like that. They'd like to get in touch with the power of Christ. And so I said, "Would you like to enter into a prayer covenant? A 30 day prayer covenant?" And I don't know, maybe there were 20, 30, 40.<br />
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Well, at dinner that night, a crazy guy comes up to me and he says, "Hey, I missed the seminars this afternoon."<br />
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I said, "How come?"<br />
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He said, "I was out playing golf." But he said, "I'll tell you what, if you'll speak tonight at 10 in the lobby of the inn, I'll fill it."<br />
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I said, "You've got to be kidding. We've been in meetings all day long. You don't want to get people to one more meeting."<br />
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He said, "I heard about your seminar. If you'll do it, I'll get the people there and I'll tape it."<br />
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And I did. And the place was filled, sitting all on the floor, all over. And I shared about what I'm sharing with you. And I invited them to enter into a 30 day prayer covenant. And Bob Ramey was the man who taped that message that night. He ended up moving from Chattanooga to College Hill to be our tape minister for many, many years.<br />
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He took me to breakfast the next day, and he said, "Would you mind if I sent a free copy of the tape to every person who entered into the prayer covenant?"<br />
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I said, "That'd be wonderful."<br />
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Do you know what? 100 people entered into the prayer covenant during that weekend. And they got a free copy of that tape. And in the next eight months, 3500 people had been led into the prayer covenant by those 100 people, because people had given their lives to Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives and they used that tape ... Whole sessions, eldership boards were transformed; whole congregations were transformed. Why? Because Jesus is the Lord, and the prayer covenant is merely a means that people can use to lead other people to follow Christ as Lord.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: Isn't that exciting? I'm telling you, I looked forward to this morning so much I could hardly contain myself. I want to tell you about the last two weeks. I'm now in eight prayer covenants. Right now. I've got eight people praying for me this morning: "Jesus, be the Lord of his life. Be the Lord of his life. Purify his life. Burn all the dross of his life away. Don't let him hold onto any sin. Fill him with your Spirit. Use him today. Please, Lord, use him today."<br />
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I met with one of those men on the golf course on Friday. I love meetings on the golf course. He said, "By the way, Jerry, I'm already in a prayer covenant."<br />
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You see, every one of you this morning can enter into a prayer covenant. You can give your life to Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life. And beloved, I want you to know, it will have tremendous implications for your marriage, if you're married, or for your singleness, if you're single. Tremendous implications for how God may want to use your talents, how God may want to use your resources. You don't give your life to Christ and hold back anything. You don't give your life to Christ as Lord and hold back anything. Can you imagine what would happen with 1000 people from Hope Church deployed in the coming days and the coming weeks in a 30 day prayer covenant, where Jesus is the Lord of our lives and filling us with His Spirit and using us in ways only He can guide?<br />
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I began to think of all the people whom you might bring into this wonderful fellowship. This is an incredible fellowship. And I was excited about that. And then I began to think of all the people in other churches that you might touch, that you might lead into a 30 day prayer covenant, who might have a vision for the transformation of their congregations. Start the revolution, Lord, and start it with me. Start the revival, Lord, and whatever you need to do in my life, do it, Lord. Please, do it.<br />
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It comes from 2 Chronicles, 15:12, "And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord with all their hearts and with all their soul." If you want to seek the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul, then I invite you to choose some other person whom you know and trust to enter into that prayer covenant with.<br />
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I will pray for you during this month that God will seal the covenant, and that He will use you in ways you have never imagined.<br />
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Secondly, if you've never received Christ, I ask you to give your life to Christ this morning as the Lord of your life, as your Savior, as the one who died for your sins and rose again and is ascended into Heaven.<br />
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And if you've given your life to Christ as Lord in the past, but you know there's some area that you haven't yielded to Him, this is the time, brothers and sisters.<br />
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And then, if you are already living for Christ as Lord, but you want to stand with those who are now doing it, come forward too.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: But prepare yourself and prepare your heart. I can't tell you what it will lead to, but I can tell you nothing else even begins to measure up.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Hello everyone this is Dr. James Dobson and you've tuned into today's Family Talk broadcast. I'm so glad that you're with us. 1 Kings chapter eight says, "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments." As Christians, we're commanded to obey God and completely dedicate our lives to Him. And nothing can be held back. In a moment, you're gonna hear an encouraging presentation on this important concept from Dr. Jerry Kirk.<br />
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Now, I wanna tell you about my friendship with Dr. Kirk. I had been appointed in 1985 to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. I was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and, of course, the commission was led by Attorney General Ed Meese. All those people had become friends of mine. But we were having one of our sessions. I don't remember what city it was, but when we took a break, Dr. Kirk came up to me and introduced himself. He said that he had been senior pastor at College Hill Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio for many years, but the Lord had laid upon him the concern about pornography and what it was going to children, and what it was doing to families. And we shared that, and we instantly bonded and have been friends ever since.<br />
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Dr. Kirk went on to found the National Coalition Against Pornography, which was very, very effective around the country, and he also started the Religious Alliance Against Pornography in 1986. And this organization continues to address the growing sexualization of this culture by partnering with other faith institutions across the country.<br />
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But today, Dr. Kirk is gonna talk about a really interesting concept, and he titles it A Wonderful Life. Now, this is not about the Jimmy Stewart movie. I guarantee you that. It's a wonderful life when Jesus is in charge. And he provides scriptural evidence for the supremacy of Christ and why believers must make him Lord of their lives. This is a good message and I hope you'll enjoy it. Here now is part one of that message.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: It's a wonderful life when we know and believe and pray and live the word of God. It's a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life when we know that to love God is to let God love us, to open ourselves up to how much he loves us. It's a wonderful life when we're free to be real.<br />
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I was here when Henry Cloud was preaching. Somebody said to him, "You know, you really bug me." And then, to say it again, and then there was third person. And then he said to us, "I had been saying to the Lord, show me how I can grow in my interpersonal relationships." And he was free to be real. There's power when we're free to be real.<br />
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I was asked to lead a preaching mission up at the Bay Village Presbyterian Church outside of Cleveland. And I took 30 laymen along, and one of those laymen that I asked to go was named Mark Trabert. Mark was the brother of Tony Trabert, the world champion tennis player back in my era. And Mark said, "You don't need to ask me to go just to get Doris." And I said, "Mark, I'm not asking you to go just to get Doris." But he said, "I don't know the Lord yet." Well, I said, "You're in a couple's Bible study regularly. You get up at five on Thursday mornings to prepare breakfast for 700 teenagers. You worship every Sunday and yet you don't know the Lord yet." I said, "If you're honest about that, you're gonna hit everybody there. Because a lot of them think they're devote Christians because they come to church on Sunday."<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: And he went over to Thomas in his gentle, loving way, and he said, "Thomas, look at my hands and put your finger in the wound in my side." And Thomas cried out, "My Lord and my God." And Jesus said, "Do you believe because you've seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe," the witness of Thomas, the witness of Jesus in his other ... one of the other resurrection appearances. I'm gonna read it because I've not memorized the verses before. It's Matthew 28. It goes like this, beginning at the 16th verse, "Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them, and when they saw him they worshiped him. But some doubted." Aren't you glad Matthew put that in there?<br />
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Even among the disciples, some doubted, like Thomas. And then it says, "And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me," all authority, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe," or obey, "All that I have commanded you. And lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age."<br />
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Beloved, I want you to know, I believe what I'm preaching about this morning is the ultimate decision in every person's life. Is Jesus the Lord of my life? In what way is Jesus the Lord of my life? Have I given my life to him? And if I've given it to him, have I taken it back? Jesus says these words in Matthew 7, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven." Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord. And in fact, he describes how these people were in ministry. They were deeply involved in ministry. They were part of God touching the lives of other people, but he says, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord.' And then verse 24, "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a man who built his house upon the rock. And everyone who hears these words and does not do them will be like a man who builds a house on the sand."<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: The witness of Peter at Pentecost. The church is about to be born. The Holy Spirit has been poured out. A tremendous gathering of thousands have come together and Peter is preaching the sermon, the one who had denied Jesus three times. And he got to the climax of the sermon and these are the words, "This Jesus, whom you crucified, God raised up, and of that we all are eyewitnesses." This Jesus, whom you crucified, God raised up and of that we all are eyewitnesses. "For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: By the way, that is the most quoted verse of the Old Testament in the New Testament. It's from Psalm 110:1, "The Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." In other words, the Father was raising the Son to the point ... place of authority to the right hand of the Father. "That all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." The witness of Peter at Pentecost.<br />
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The witness of Steven at his death. I love these words. "Now, when they heard these things they were enraged and they ground their teeth against him. But Steven, full of the holy spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens open and the son of man standing at the right hand of God." The place of authority, and then Steven says later, "Father, forgive them for what they are doing." And then he gave up his spirit and died having been stoned to death. Jesus is Lord.<br />
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The witness of Paul. I want you to turn to the book of Ephesians, because I'm gonna be eluding to a number of these verses. Ephesians chapter one verse two, "Grace to you and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." There was no question in Paul's mind who the Lord was. Verse three, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing."<br />
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Look down at verse 15, "For this reason, because I've heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love toward all the saints," beloved, Jesus is Lord whether you believe it or not. Jesus is Lord whether you have made him the Lord of your life or not.<br />
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Look at verse nine, nine through 11. These verses changed my life. I was out by a lake in Indiana planning my preaching for the entire year, and I decided I was gonna preach through Ephesians and I decided to memorize the first chapter, and I got to these verses. And I want you to know, I was very close to burnout. I had gone out to that lake because I desperately needed to get alone with the Lord. I needed to have my cup refilled. "For he has made known to us, in all wisdom and insight," how does that go? "In all wisdom and insight, the mystery of his will according to his purpose, as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth."<br />
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God has a plan and a purpose. And then, look at verse 11. In Christ, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of this will, he not only has a plan and a purpose to unite everything in Christ, but he's got the power to pull off the plan. And I laid my hand on those verses and I said, "Lord, I ask you to do that. I ask you to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth." I said, "You could even unite the Presbyterians." And I did, I laughed. The Southern Baptists were meeting that week in Dallas. I said, "Lord, you could even unite the Southern Baptists." And I laughed again. And then I said, "Lord, you can even use the battle against pornography to drive your people to their knees and to each other." And I laughed again.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: God's plan is to unite everything in Jesus Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. Look at verse 18. This had changed me radically about four years before, verse 18. "Having the eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, eternal light. And what are the riches of the glorious inheritance in the saints." And get this, "And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe according to the working of his great might, which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come."<br />
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And he, the father, has put all things under his feet. Beloved, if we ever get ahold of that it will radically transform our lives. The power that raised Jesus from the dead and made him sit at his right hand with all authority, that power is at work within us. I want you to know, I was involved in a tremendous debate within the Presbyterian church called The Confession of 1967. I was to debate one of the leading professors of Princeton Seminary up in Boston. I was thinking about this passage. And do you remember the lights went out over all New England? That's when I was gonna be debating this key professor from Princeton Seminary. I said, "Lord, you are amazing."<br />
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By the way, we had the meeting with candlelight. We didn't have any stove to be able to cook the food. We had the meeting. And, of course, I won because I was standing for what Jesus taught. I didn't have the brain power. I didn't have the knowledge. But the truth of Christ will always win out, not in the short run but always in the long. Jesus is Lord.<br />
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Listen to these words to the Philippians. "Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man and being found in human form. He humbled himself and become obedient unto death, even death on a cross."<br />
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Here are the key verses. "Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father." The father receives glory when you and I exalt Christ as Lord of our lives. The father receives glory when you and I give our lives to Christ as Lord.<br />
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Dr. Jerry Kirk: How about these words? By the way, I was looking through my New Testament early this morning, I have put on the inside cover, passages of scripture that I wanna have at my funeral. I haven't read this for a long time. I've got them in all of my Bibles, so nobody'll miss it.<br />
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"Funeral suggestions for Jerry Kirk, see also the cover of the large bible and my other small RSV. I hope you have a ball planning and leading the funeral. I will be with him and I will be praying. Then I put down, it is well with my soul."<br />
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Here's the first passage I had listed. It's Romans 14:7-9, "None of us live to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord. And if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's."<br />
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Here's the key verse, "For to this end, Christ died and lived again that he might be Lord, both of the dead and of the living." Beloved, it's unbelievable to me why we would struggle with giving our lives to Jesus Christ as Lord, because life's tough when he's not Lord. And life is wonderful when he's Lord, when he's in charge, when he calls the shots.<br />
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Now, I wanted to tell you about the process God has used in my life. When I met Jesus as my Savior, I met him as my Lord. The day I met Christ as Savior I met him as Lord. My father taught me obedience. He was a Rose Bowl football player. He was a football, basketball, baseball coach when he said, "Jump," I said, "How high?" There was never a question. Now, I did deceive him three times that I remember. And it was a cataclysm every time. He trained me. So, when I met Jesus I had no difficulty giving myself to him as Lord. But in my life, from time to time, unknowingly I got so busy and so involved with this life that his Lordship was not as focused as it needed to be.<br />
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James Dobson: Well, welcome everyone to Family Talk, the radio broadcast division of James Dobson Family Institute. I am James Dobson and I'm so happy that you've joined us today. I think you're going to find this particular program very interesting. We're gonna talk today about the very important topic of fathers and the vital role that they play in raising Godly children. Both boys and girls are dependent upon their dads, of course, but today we're gonna talk about specifically about boys.<br />
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I wrote a book on that subject called Bringing Up Boys that explains the understanding that boys are not born knowing how to become men, and many people do not know that. That's not natural to a boy to understand that. They're bonded to their mothers at birth and she is everything to them through the early stages of development. At about 18 months of age and continuing on through about five years, they need to disengage with their mothers and gradually identify with their fathers. Or if they're not available, with a strong, caring male role model. This is something that they have to learn to do. Mothers, of course, are gonna be critically important to their sons on through life. We're not speaking disparagingly of that relationship, but a woman is not equipped to teach a boy how to be a man. I hope that doesn't insult anybody, but that's the fact. It's just true that a man is required to do this.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Bryan, we're gonna talk today about a topic that's close to my heart. My son Zach, who has been a joy for me, but you put together an amazing work called The Boy to Man Book: Preparing Your Son for Manhood. We're gonna jump right into all of that. Before we go there, Bryan, let's talk a little bit about what's happening in modern day culture. I mean, there's this run out there called toxic masculinity. It seems like you can be anything but a man in today's world. Bryan, what are you seeing?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, the APA, American Psychiatric or Psychological Association, whichever one, came out with a big long article just recently basically saying that classic masculine values are toxic. Their description, their understanding of toxic masculinity is it's things like assertiveness, aggressiveness, dominance, leadership, aggression, those kinds of things. Well, those are the qualities that enabled us to establish our independence in 1776, free the slaves in 1860, turn back the Nazi menace in the 1940s. Nothing toxic about that at all. There's no question any of these masculine values, if they're taken too far in the wrong direction can create problems, but there's nothing wrong with masculinity itself. It's the problem that we don't have enough masculinity, not that we have too much.<br />
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That's one of the things I'm trying to deal with in the book is give young boys a clear understanding of what it means to be a Godly man, a mature, muscular man that follows Christ. That was part of the objective in the book to respond to the trend that we have toward feminism taking over every institution, every part of our culture. Creeping into the Church, where the only values that seemed to be prized in the Church are the feminine values anymore. Understanding and patience and kindness and gentleness. All these things are great, we're not denigrating any of them, but where is the space in modern Christianity for aggressiveness, for assertiveness, for confronting error, for standing boldly alone if necessary against the tide? Where is that?&nbsp;<br />
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Somewhere in our understanding of masculinity, we've gotta have some place for what Jesus did when he cleansed the temple, and most modern Christians today, most modern churches today would be absolutely horrified if Jesus did the same thing today, which means we've got a deficit in our understanding of what it means to be a Christ-like man.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Bryan, you were referring to I think the APA, the American Psychological Association report that came out in August 2018. There are some things in that report we would agree with, I think you and I both would. Opposition to violent or abusive behaviors. Dr. Dobson referenced inappropriate exertion of power and privilege. They even affirm the importance of fatherhood, but you are right. There was a use of the word "traditional" in here, and this is where it starts tipping maybe in a politicized discussion of manhood and what probably the progressive left or the post-modern thinking is here.&nbsp;<br />
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I did an interview, Bryan, with Nancy Pearcey and it was about her work called Love Thy Body. In it she talked about ... A lot of the issues boiled down to a fragmented dualism. What in the world is that? She went on and talked about this break between body and personhood. We could in this discussion move it to a difference between what people are trying to separate as sex and gender. Sex being how you are biologically, gender being how you want to be, I guess, as a man or woman. Masculine or feminine or something like that. Genetics can be basically overridden. Is that it?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, I think it's very clear that the objective of the left is to eliminate distinctions between the sexes. That's one of the reasons they use the word "gender". They've selected the word "gender" in place of sex because it's more malleable. It's a psychological concept, not a biological concept. We believe ... God says in Genesis 1 ... The Bible says-<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Male and female.<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Male and female. Two sexes, two genders, male and female. Not 58 like Facebook says, and that's just a matter of biological and genetic science and we ought to let that guide the basic way that we understand men and women. God created them male and female, which means they're different. They're not interchangeable. They each have different roles to play in a family. Different roles to play perhaps in the Church. Complementary, but different. We can't just replace one with the other. Kids need a mom and a dad, not two dads or two moms.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Clinton: I guess we could also say here before we jump into shaping our boys, influencing them, and they're waiting to soak us up, but Bryan, how about the divorce culture, too? I think in a lot of ways this easy divorce society led us to a place where a lot of dads just weren't there. We had boys growing up without Godly male influence or any male influence in a lot of ways.<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, Ronald Reagan said the worst mistake he ever made in his life was to sign the No Fault Divorce Bill in California in 1969. You know, because of the influence of California, it wasn't long before virtually every state in the union had adopted that. It created as legal policy, if you don't want to get married, you don't have to stay married. You have no obligation, you have no responsibility. The oath that you took on the day you got married, that's meaningless. You can scrap that. You can toss it aside.&nbsp;<br />
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You can divorce your partner, your husband or your wife and break up your family, damage your kids for the rest of their lives, and you don't even have to have a good reason to do it. I mean, the debris, the human carnage that's left behind is astronomical. As you point out, one of the places where the damage is felt the most is in the lives of children. I saw that in my life as a pastor, counseling people and walking them through divorce. Terrible toll on children.&nbsp;<br />
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People say, "Well, children are resilient." Well, in my experience, my parents divorced when I was 20. You're never old enough to have your parents divorce. When that happened, my whole world was just shattered. I didn't have a home to go to on Thanksgiving. Didn't have a home to go to on Christmas. Children are never old enough for their parents to divorce. When God says, "I hate divorce", I understand every single syllable in that. He doesn't hate divorcees, but he hates divorce because he sees the damage it does to people that are made in his image.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Yeah, Bryan. I was reading a piece by I think it was Frank Pollock who looked at the impact of divorce on kids. He said in particular boys. He was discussing the importance or significance of fathering for a moment. That boys wind up on really a short end of the stick here because they need that male, masculine influence in their life. I think James addressed that. We've gotta take care of the widows and the orphans in their affliction. The Church has gotta step into this role because you can't be ... As a mom, and we give a shout out to all those single moms who are standing in the gap having to do a lot of this alone, to all of you we tip our hat. We say this, "Get some Godly male influence, though, in your son's life. He needs it." You can't be a mommy dad. You're not a mom-dad. You need to be the best mom you can be.&nbsp;<br />
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Bryan, this whole piece on boys, and I love how you're addressing it because we've got to raise up a generation of young men who are willing to stand as men and like Paul said, act like men and be strong, especially in this day. Getting there is a little bit of a challenge. I think that's why I love God's Word. I think God's Word challenges in that direction. Tell us a little bit about why, Bryan, you wanted to do something special for dads or for parents to understand The Boy to Man Book. What's the heart of it?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, I think you're right, Dr. Clinton, that there's a real felt absence of masculine presence in our homes or we have missing dads. The dads that are there may not be a masculine, muscular presence in the home. We've gotta recapture what masculinity means. That's what I've tried to do in the book. That's why I call it The Boy to Man Book, turn 12-year-old boys into adult men. That's the purpose of the book. I designed it for fathers of 12-year-old sons to read with their sons. There's a prayer at the end of every chapter. They can pray over their son, pray the truth of the Word of God into their lives. I wanted it to be user-friendly.<br />
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I wrote the book that I wish I'd had when my son was 12. I didn't write this as a pastor or a theologian or whatever to fathers, I wrote this as a father writing for other fathers. I wanted to put in their hands something that was really user-friendly. Just sit down and start reading this book. The chapters are kind of bite size so you can read them in just several minutes. The prayer is there at the end of every single chapter.&nbsp;<br />
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That was my idea. I was struck, Dr. Clinton, reading The Book of Proverbs a few years ago. The number of times that Solomon used the word "my son" in The Book of Proverbs ... 31 times. He addresses what he's saying to his son and it just hit me. I'd read Proverbs many times before, but this had never stood out to me that what Solomon was really doing was in The Book of Proverbs providing a training manual for fathers and sons. What I wanted to do was take the wisdom of Solomon from The Book of Proverbs and make it accessible to dads and their sons. I think there's hundreds of thousands of fathers across America that feel this impulse and this responsibility to bring up their sons in the nurture and the admonition of The Lord. They're just not sure exactly how to go about doing it, and I'm hoping that this will be part of the answer to what they're looking for.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Bryan, I think it's safe for us to say something here, too. Boys are just different. They're different than girls. Now, we have some common things. We like playing ball and doing different things, but boys tend to be ... Dr. Dobson refers to them as competitive, aggressive, assertive, lovers of cars, trucks, guns, balls. Yes, there are some girls that are like that, but there is something unique about boys that compels them like to push things to the edge. That takes them to different places. It's like, "Don't you do that. I'm telling you right now." Or driving down the road like a crazy man in their car.<br />
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Some people talk about testosterone being like the gas pedal in a boy's life and counter balancing it say with serotonin and other things, which would be more like the brake. Just in terms of being wired, they're just wired a little differently. They got that Y chromosome, Bryan. As a result, we have to step into their world. We have to step in a way that uniquely helps them see, helps them be.&nbsp;<br />
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Bryan, in doing this, I think a lot of men struggle with the relational side, how to connect. We talk about dads being more action love oriented. They like to get outside and change the oil, or let's go out and throw a ball, or let's get on a stream somewhere. Or, by the way, how do we look at our sons uniquely? Sometimes, Bryan, there is a match/mismatch. My son maybe isn't quite like me. How ... Let's just talk about that before we jump into the specifics of your book that I love. What's your thoughts on uniquely aligning yourself with your son for a moment?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, I got a letter from a father who was an athletic guy, outdoorsy type. Liked to hunt and fish and his older son was like him. They connected over those outdoor activities. He had a younger son, it was kind of like the Jacob and Esau situation. His younger son had different interests. Wasn't really attracted to hunting and fishing as some of the outdoor activities. He had a tough time connecting with his son and he was writing to tell me that he'd been able to do that by reading this book together with his son. He talked about kind of an amazing answer to prayer that they had received and he was ... When the prayer was answered and they were both excited about that. He was able to point the son back to the chapter in the book that they had read together and the principle that they had followed in their prayer that had led to God. He was a pumped dad because he was connecting now with his son for the first time.<br />
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I think that's pretty important. If we don't have a masculine presence in a son's life ... Part of it is I think fathers sometimes are intimidated by their sons. They don't know exactly how to relate to a teenage son. They get pushback when they don't want it, don't expect it. They're not sure how to absorb that and all that kind of thing. Fathers can tend to pull back and create some distance between them and their son just because it's safer to have that kind of buffer zone in there. This is a way for a dad I think to proactively enter in to the life of his teenage son and maybe lay down some markers that will guide that son through his teenage years and maybe establish some connections between them as father and son that will endure and that they can enjoy as his son progresses toward adulthood and toward maturity. That's my hope in the book.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Bryan, with that, I reflect on my own son who's in his early 20s now. Growing up, I wanted to be there and to help coach him. I especially wanted to be there in those moments when he struck out or made an error. I wanted to be there when he caught his first fish. I get that. I understand what you're talking about. I also learned that that presence and if we worked on our communication led to some critical times in a hot tub when it's just the two us, and he would ask me about his girlfriend. Or we'd talk about more deeper issues of life or we talked about our own personal faith walk. You've got to have time in order to have those moments.&nbsp;<br />
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What we're challenging you to do, dad, there's nothing more significant than spiritually engaging. What I love about Bryan's new book, The Boy to Man Book, he kind of builds it out of that Jewish tradition, don't you Bryan? The bar mitzvah piece where it's this transition of this 12, 13-year-old boy into basically manhood responsibilities. Becoming a young man. We begin to address the issues of what it means for you to take your rightful place in this world.<br />
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Bryan Fischer: We have prolonged adolescence far too long. One of the standout scenes in the life of Christ is when He was found in the temple talking to the teachers and the leaders, asking them questions, and they in turn were asking questions of Jesus. That means He had enough moxie and had enough wisdom that they were impressed with the things that He was talking about and wanted to ask him questions about what He believed and what He was saying. Well, why was Jesus in the temple then? He was 12 years old. He was in the temple because he was 12, and He was now regarded by that culture not as a young boy any longer, but as a young man.&nbsp;<br />
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That was the significance of the bar mitzvah ritual or whatever. It was symbolic of a transition from boyhood to manhood. He was now to be considered and treated and regarded as a young man with all the responsibilities that adult males had to obey the law. We've got a tradition in our culture where if a teenage boy acts up, we blame the parents. We fine the parents. Well, I think it's time ... Boy turns 12, turns 13 ... As a culture, we need to communicate to our young men that we are gonna expect them to behave as adults. We'll hold them accountable for adult male behavior.<br />
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It was kind of predicated on that idea of the bar mitzvah. In fact, I've got a ceremony with my son at the end of the book. He was actually 16 when we did this ceremony, but I got some rocks out of ... I was taking a trip to Israel. Got some rocks out of the very stream that David took the rocks from, the smooth round stones with which he slew Goliath. Same creek, and I took stones out of that, put 'em in a leather bag. Brought together the men that had had the greatest influence in J.D.'s life. We presented him each one with a stone connected to a verse to symbolize a quality of character we wanted him to develop, and then we told him at the end of the ceremony, "Look, we're no longer gonna treat you as a boy. From now on, we're inviting you. We're embracing you as a part of the fraternity of men, adult men. We're gonna treat you as a man, and we're gonna expect you to behave as a man."<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Bryan, as we jump into our conversations with our sons, you start out with the concept of wisdom. What's important that our son know about seeking wisdom or at the fear of The Lord?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Well, the Hebrew word for wisdom really refers to skill, so a carpenter for instance who was very, very good at his job would be described as a wise carpenter, because he had the skill to know what he needed to do and how to get it done. That's what The Book of Proverbs is all about. It's about the skills that young boys need to become grown men. That's very critically important, what we're talking about here, and the book is just littered with quotations and verses from The Book of Proverbs. I love the book, I'm happy with the book, but what I especially like about the book is it's a way of getting the Word of God into the heart of our sons.&nbsp;<br />
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I use stories from my own life and so forth to illustrate, but the heart of the book is the wisdom of Proverbs, the wisdom of Solomon available to fathers to impart in a distilled form. We need skill to handle life. Life is difficult. Life has turns. It has unexpected things, and it takes skill to be able to navigate through life. We're gonna have disappointments. We're gonna have people betray us. We need to have the skill to know how to navigate our way through those things. That's what The Book of Proverbs is really all about. Solomon saying, "Look, if you're a son, these are the qualities that you need to have to become a fully functional, mature adult in our society.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Topics like truth, what it means to have a don't quit attitude, how to deal with temptation, anger, frustration, purity, dating, love, relationship factors, what it means to work hard, control your speech, know God's Will. Even stand in a time when there's great opposition. Maybe even against all of Christianity. To be bold enough to stand. Those are the kind of life lessons that are coming out of this work by Bryan Fischer.<br />
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Bryan, we're battling the clock here. You know it better than anybody as a radio host, but I remember when my Dad died and about a month later I got up into the mountains by myself and I spent time just reflecting on who my Dad was to me. How much I appreciated how much he loved my kids. Bryan, how much I miss the simple things like a phone call at night or going through a McDonald's getting a hot fudge sundae with him and just riding in the car. I miss my Dad's covering. I was wrestling up there with God.&nbsp;<br />
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Bryan, I remember vividly. This issue popped in my mind. I'm in mid-life, and it was simply this, "Tim, do you worship the God of your father? Or is he your God?" I wrestled and I remember jumping in my truck and driving down out of the Blue Ridge Mountains alone. It was like an epiphany happened. It was simply this, "I worship the God of my father, who by the way, is my God."<br />
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Bryan, there's nothing greater that we can give to our sons than deep love, a testimony that models everything that we want, including, by the way, the ability to stand strong and love deeply. Bryan, let me give this to you. Would you talk to our listeners this morning and encourage them if they're in a battle and they're struggling connecting with their son? They're worried that they may be losing him or maybe they feel like a total failure. Encourage them, would you?<br />
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Bryan Fischer: Concern comes out of your love for your son. The Heavenly Father sees that, so never give up praying that God will connect you with your son. That if your son is drifting, that God will bring him back. That's the whole point of the story about the prodigal son, and what do you see the father doing in that story? He's always watching the road.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: Always.<br />
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Bryan Fischer: He's looking for his son to come back down that road. He's not out there trying to grab him and haul him back, 'cause he knows the son has to come back of his own free will, but he's praying. He's looking. He's expecting, and in time God will answer. God will bring your prodigal back to you. A lot of dads I'm talking to you right now have prodigal sons or prodigal daughters. God has His own sense of timing about these things and our responsibility is to pray, to pray consistently, and then trust God to do His work in His time and He will.<br />
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Dr. Clinton: And He will. Our special guest today has been Bryan Fischer. He's the author of a brand new work called The Boy to Man Book: Preparing Your Son for Manhood. It's a must for every family out there. He, of course, hosts his own radio program called Focal Point heard on American Family Radio. Dear friend of the ministry, I know of Dr. Dobson's. Bryan, thank you again for joining us.<br />
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Bryan Fischer: You're very welcome, Dr. Clinton. Appreciate being on with you, and by the way, if folks want to get the book, they can go to afastore.net. Or if you buy things from AFA, you go to afastore.net and you can order up a copy there.&nbsp;<br />
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Roger Marsh: This is Family Talk, and you've been listening to Dr. Tim Clinton's interview with author Bryan Fischer. I'm Roger Marsh, and I hope you enjoyed this discussion about the importance of Godly manhood. Bible-believing men must stand up in this culture and impart Biblical wisdom to their sons, too. Visit our broadcast page at drjamesdobson.org to learn more about Bryan's work, The Boy to Man Book. That's drjamesdobson.org, and then click onto the broadcast page.<br />
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I'm Roger Marsh. Thanks so much for listening today, and I hope you'll join us again tomorrow for another edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. Have a blessed day.&nbsp;<br />
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Announcer: This has been a presentation of The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute."
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Roger Marsh: Welcome everyone to Family Talk a division of the James Dobson family institute. I'm Roger Marsh with your host bestselling author and noted child psychologist Doctor James Dobson. Today you're going to hear one of Doctor Dobson's favorite interviews from some years ago. Joining him in the studio then was NFL hall of fame coach Joe Gibbs.&nbsp;<br />
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Now as you may know coach Gibbs is a three time Super Bowl winning coaching with the Washington Red Skins. During his career he collected 140 wins including 16 in the post-season and he recorded only one losing season during that span. Coach Gibbs also owns a successful NASCAR racing team which recently won the Daytona 500 behind Denny Hamlin. Joe Gibbs has had a wildly successful career and life in the minds of many people. But today on Family Talk he'll sit down with Doctor Dobson to share his whole story.<br />
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Coach Gibbs will explain the many ups and downs in his life and how God has remained the one constant throughout. He also will talk about the importance of family and will stress why it must always come before a career. Well let's get to the program right now. Here is Doctor James Dobson and his guest hall of fame coach Joe Gibbs on this classic addition of Family Talk.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Can I call you coach? Is that all right?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Please, I tell everybody once you've been a coach you've been called everything.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Is that right?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah believe me.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: People still call-<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Coach is great.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: People still call you coach?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah they do. As a matter of fact my grandbabies call me coach. And so I get a kick out of it.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Well you have done many successful things, but none more than being an assistant coach at USC for the Trojans.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I can remember. I can remember. I knew you were [crosstalk 00:01:44]-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: To coach John McKay right?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: You're a Trojan. Absolutely. Yeah and those were great years. I got so many stories. See that was a dream of mine because I actually grew up there [inaudible 00:01:53] down in the Norwalk area and I wasn't good enough to go to SC and dad-gummit you didn't recruit me, but I went to junior college and everything and then of course it was always a dream of mine to go back and coach there and I got the chance to do that.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: You know what it was always a dream of mine that after you left the NFL you would come back to USC and take one of those open coaching positions, but I'm giving up on it. I don't think we're gonna make it.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah I think our last couple offers Pat looked at me and said, "Read my lips. N-O." You can go. I'm staying here with the grandbabies so we're not gonna do that one.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Well it is so good to have you here. After being so successful in coaching and then going into the NASCAR racing experience one would get the idea that success has just followed you all the days of your life. That really hasn't been true has it?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: No, it hasn't been true. As a matter of fact I tell people read this book and I can save you 10 years of misery because what's in this book is all the mistakes. I think it's kind of funny, Jim, because you do wind up, if you wind up winning Super Bowls, a lot of the struggles on how get there and a lot of the heartache that we go through in life kind of gets lost because eventually you win a Super Bowl and then of course same thing with Winston Cup. But certainly Pat and I have had our struggles along the way and that's what's documented in the book.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Why did you leave football?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I tell you I left football because - I loved it. It was one of the greatest jobs in the world. Let me say this, it took me about four long months of just really heart searching, Pat and I, going away as a family and really thinking about it. 'Cause that's all we had done as a family. See when you coach the whole family coaches.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Yeah and it's year round too.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah, Pat ran everything at home. She took care of the boys and I really coached and the boys would come to camp and everything. I really laugh because both boys had gone off to college and I thought they would always kind of be with me. They left and I went to football and all of a sudden I became a football recluse and I missed JD playing most of his football career. I always wanted to see him play and I did get to see him play him a few times. Took helicopters and stuff, but Coy was playing at Stanford and I said, "Look, at this point in my life it's really family. I think it's time for me to step out, to go see him." Which I did, went to see him at Stanford. Play every game at Stanford for the next two years and then really for family reasons. So I think it was the right thing.<br />
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I was scared to death to do it. Once I stepped out it was almost like God just gave me-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: How hard was it to walk away from the glamour and the excitement and the adrenaline and the money and the fame and the fortune. All the things that success in the NFL means? How difficult was that?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Very difficult I think because, like I say, it's a profession. You grow up in it, you actually live it and it monopolizes a lot of your life. If you had asked me Monday evening at 10:00 during the football season what are you doing? I could've told you. That's how structured my life was. But, I really think it's one of the great jobs in the world. I loved it, but I really felt like it was time for me to probably do something else. 30 years of almost anything is enough too, I think.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Joe how did your relationship with Pat survive the all-encompassing experience of coaching in the NFL?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I really think Jim that Pat's a special person and I think one of the things I never recommend for a coach ... A lot of my players say, "Hey I want to go into coaching." I never recommend that if they've been married for a while. It's almost like you've got to grow up in it because for six months out of the year I got to tell you the truth, I slept at the office three nights a week. She ran the whole show. I got to see the boys on Friday night. I mean it's a very-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: It takes a very special woman to do that.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Absolutely.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Did she complain about it?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: No. It was her life and she kind of, matter of fact when I came home after about three days she goes, "Shut up and get out of here." But she was used to kind of running the show, but I mean really and truly it was a partnership and now there was a lot of advantages to coaching too besides that me being away and everything. The boys got to come to camp. There's so many things we got. The great thrill of victory and all that kind of stuff and Pat got to enjoy some things too, but really-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Kids on the sidelines.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah. Kids on the sidelines, but I got to tell you Pat is an unusual person. I think most coaches wives are.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: She had her struggles too. She had a very serious surgery at one point. What was that about 20 years?<br />
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Joe Gibbs: 1980. Yeah.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Yeah.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: 1980 came home and Pat shared with me that night, I'll always remember that that, the doctor said she had an Acoustic neuroma which is a serious brain tumor. The bottom line when we came out of that surgery, she has paralysis on one side of her face and it's been, as I shared in both books, it's been one of the toughest things we've ever had to deal with. And certainly she encourages me so much. She's so strong for this fact and she always said to me, she says, "Look I know that the Lord has promised me in the end everything is gonna work out the best for me." And so-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: That's the key to your life Joe. You really are serious about your love for the Lord.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I am Jim and I think the reason the book and - I had a spiritual father one time, he made a great statement and I says, "I think I may write a book," that first one. He goes, "Do you have anything to say?" And so what prompted me on this second one was the fact that so many people walked up to me and I guess, think about the way the world sees things now. They walk up to me because I've what? Won Super Bowls and won Winston Cup championships.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Yeah.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Okay, they don't really know a lot about my background, but they will say to me, "Hey Joe how do I become successful?" Well when they say that, I know what they're meaning. See they look at me and they say, "How do I make money and I become president of the company or win football games or whatever it is in my profession?" And really what, I wrote the book for this reason, yes that's very important: occupation and making money, finances, but there's four other key areas that they're not even thinking about when they ask me that. And that's the same thing I did when I came out of school. I was interested in those two things. Because the world told me if I get enough of that, money, and enough football games, I'm gonna be happy.&nbsp;<br />
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Well then halfway through the first few years there I said, "Well wait a second. If I don't have somebody to enjoy this and go through it with me, relationships, life's going to be a disaster." So I add relationships to it.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: That is the bottom line for this program because it's a message that absolutely must be heard. You are Joe, a man's man and you fell into a man's trap. How many men do we know who have become obsessed with work and so driven to accomplish those things you just talked about that they lose sight of everything else that's important including their relationship with the Lord. They lose their families. They wake up in their 40's or 50's. Some of them never wake up and by then it's too late.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I got to tell you it's a natural trap and people say, "Well how does this ..." It happens this way. The world says - now how does it say it, how's it sell it? Well it has all written material, TVs, movies, all these different ways and basically it says those two things. "This'll make you happy." And so, Jim you're right, most of us charge out through life and we go and we go 10, 20, 30, 40 years and all of a sudden I look back and I go, "Oh my gosh."<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Yeah.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: As I accomplish these things I realize, that's not the most important thing in my life really. What's the most important thing Pat and I are gonna leave on this earth? Are gonna be our kids, our grandkids and the influence we're having on others.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Well I thank God that you learned that. I had the same temperament that you have, still do. And I'm a type A and I'm a go for it person and I got pretty excited about life when I was young and there were opportunities out there for me that I never would've anticipated. When I got out of graduate school and wrote Dare to Discipline I mean everything came at me and Shirley was a little less tolerant of that than Pat. Shirley in a very loving way just said to me, "That's not gonna work. You're making a big mistake." And she helped pull me back. I would've probably made an enormous mistake in our family and our life if it hadn't been for her and for my father. And also because of my love of the Lord and I began to see things in scripture and he began talking to me.&nbsp;<br />
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But boy I tell you, it is a trap. It is a trap. It looks so right and in my case I had the excuse of doing it for the Lord's work.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: [crosstalk 00:10:30]. Yes absolutely.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: I mean I had it all rationalized. Of course, it's important for me to do all these things, and Shirley was so loving in the way she approached me. She didn't nag me, but she really did keep me from making a mistake 'cause I had everything I needed to be a workaholic.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I sat across a table from a self-made billionaire that owned the Washington Redskins, Jack King Cook, and the only time I ever saw tears in his eyes, and he said to me, "Joe," he said, "I've messed up." And what he was referring to was his relationships. He had had four marriages, a lot of broken relationships in there and here was a guy that had done what the world said. Made all the money, was a billionaire and had climbed the ladder to success and yet I'll always remember that about Mr. Cook in that meeting we had.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: J. Paul Getty, at one time was the richest man in the world, said he'd made a mess out of his life. Even though he made all that money he couldn't figure out how to make it with a family. The word excess really describes you. If people look at you they would think the word success would be the defining word, but you say excess was the defining word.<br />
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Joe Gibbs: Yeah, and I was so driven just like you talked about. I mean I definitely wanted to be successful and I kind of fell into the plan and like I said mine was strictly through hard knocks and that's what's in this book. I made, in almost all these areas, I made serious mistakes and thank God that there was a loving God there and I had a little spiritual father and rededicated my life in 1972 and then what started happening in my life, I started discovering through God's word that He really is our head coach.&nbsp;<br />
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You and I are playing the game of life, the biggest game of all. He's our head coach and He left the game plan here.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Mm-hmm (affirmative).<br />
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Joe Gibbs: I was playing the game without studying the game plan. I was a fool. I jumped off into finances I thought-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: You almost had to declare bankruptcy.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Well I really was technically bankrupt. The biggest mess in the world Jim, but basically-<br />
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Dr. Dobson: A million dollars in debt?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Oh, Millions. And that's a testimony too 'cause no matter how big the mess is - and this is one of the biggest. I sat with two attorneys and two accountants one day and we spent six hours and couldn't add up everything this partnership was in. And I was the only guy that was left. Everybody else filed bankruptcy and left.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: What kind of business was it?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: It was real estate investment and that shows you how smart I am. I said, "Well you can't lose in real estate." But you know if I'd only followed one principle in God's book, He says in there, you know God speaks over 2300 times about finances. Why? Because he knew money was gonna be important.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Absolutely.&nbsp;<br />
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Joe Gibbs: And I was-<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Talked more about money than he did about heaven.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Amen. And so, in God's word it says never cosign the loan unless you're willing to pay it off. If I just followed one principle I could've saved myself so much heartache, but you know I think I needed to go through that and the great thing about belonging to the Lord, I sat down after that was over with, that experience, and Pat at and I at one point took everything we had, gave it to a bank, they paid our bills and we got a Per Diem to live on. That's how bad it was. But when we got out of that four and a half years later I sat down and wrote 15 things that I learned through that experience and number one on that list was "listen to your wife."&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Mm-hmm (affirmative).<br />
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Joe Gibbs: See, I found a way to kind of make her do that. Those are the times I've gotten the biggest messes in life. When I don't listen to Godly council. When I don't listen to my mate and then I try and kind of, because I'm forced, so find a way to get her to agree to it instead of us just mutually agreeing. So anyway, there's some real lessons in the book and that's the real reason why I wrote it because I think I do get so much attention and so much of it I laugh at. You know how smart I am. Most people out there don't and so I kind of laugh at the way the world pictures that too.<br />
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Dr. Dobson: Yeah, but NASCAR is doing fine for you?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: NASCAR, I think maybe that's why God was putting me through those things. I think when look at that. Now we have a successful business. I'm so paranoid now. I got so many people to look over; I know I'm not a good business man. And so, I have so many people looking at it, that you probably would recognize some of the people. I have them come in as consultants, we meet once a month. We really are very careful and JD's a much better businessman than I am. He kind of oversees everything, but it's a big business. We have 200 people working for us now and we're racing cars all across America and it's a big deal for us.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Have you learned to control the pressures and to not continue the tendency to overwork yourself?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: I'm much better now about that. I think football is a unique life. You drive yourself. I was the technical person. People were waiting on me. When you're in that role there's always 11 people and everybody's counting on you. The position I'm in now is more of a businessman helping to pick the people. Yes I work with people problems, but I'm not the technical person. And the guys today that, in this sport, the crew chiefs are what they're called. They're just same as coaches. They go on Thursday, come back on Sunday, have their guys that go with them and they technically make the car run. Those are the guys that have the pressure in this.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
So it's a different kind of ... I tell people paying the bills, that's a pressure, but I have a different pressure now.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: All right Joe let's address the guy out there who's making the same mistakes that you and I were inclined to make. They're a lot of them and they're a lot of women listening to us today who are saying, "If only my husband knew this. If only he would listen." Maybe they'll get a CD of this and maybe they'll listen to the former coach of a Super Bowl champion. Maybe you'll have some influence with them. Give your best shot.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: My best shot would be this, to me, most of life - I've told you how sharp I am - most of life to me is common sense, and to me I think I can prove to almost anyone that God exists. If I look at this watch and I can tell anybody out there, "If you look at that watch do you think there's a watch maker?" Everybody goes, just through common sense, "Yeah absolutely." Complicated. Now look at the world, the way this world is crafted. And so, at nine years old I'm kind of looking around the school I'm being told that two amoeba happened to hit a muddy puddle of water 2 billion years ago and I was an accident.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
I wasn't real sharp, but I looked at that and I said, "I don't like the sound of that."<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Something wrong with that.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: And then church, my grandmother and mother had me in church, the pastor there was telling me something totally different. Said there was a God, he loved me, he made me, he crafted me, he knit me together in my mother's womb he made me special. I got up and went forward in church and said, "Hey, that makes more sense to me." I would say-<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: How old were you?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Anybody at nine years old, I would say to any man, woman out there if you just think about the world and the way this is put together there has to be a world-maker. Once I made that commitment to him and asked Him to come into my life, okay then the mistakes I made, by still veering off and chasing my own desires, knowing when I discovered that this book, the Bible, the Bible that God left here for our game plan, our game plan for life, is a relevant book. And many people out there I feel like are struggling or arguing Democrat, Republican, Liberal I tell you what I want to know. I don't want to know what they think, I want to know what God thinks.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Absolutely.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: So this book is a relevant book. Now think about this, if we're going to live life and God put us here, he covers it all. He covers ever aspect and everything we need to know. If you want to know something about relationships, he tells you.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: It's all there.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: It's here, so I would say to any person out there, I would say, "Look I've built a business, I've been involved with a lot of, most people wouldn't argue with me on that. [inaudible 00:18:15] If you're a team builder out there. If you're a man and you're trying to build a business team, I need to be studying God's word. What he says about who is the greatest team builder of all time? Jesus Christ had three years to change the world. Was he good at picking people? He picked twelve guys that nobody ... There wasn't one of them a star, and he took them and the way he talked and communicated which is big in team building and all those other aspects he covers it all in here. So, if I'm a business man I need to be studying this Word and what God has to say about it.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Let me add my best shot to what you just said Joe and I agree with you completely. And I want to speak particularly to the guy out there who's a Christian, but he's kind of nominal. He goes to church, but he hasn't really taken it seriously. Hasn't made the commitment. The best reason I can give him, which is what hit me when my daughter was born, is that if I don't do my job in terms of introducing my kids to Jesus Christ, if I miss it there, I'll never see them again after I die. This is the end of it. Maybe I'll make it to heaven. Will they?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Mm-hmm (affirmative).<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: And that for me is the greatest motivation in life. This life is merely a preparation for the next and if you get that priority right nothing else comes close. Everything else is just sort of marking time.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: If we're gonna be playing this game we're gonna play it forever. One night I was up talking to Coy one night and I was sharing with him a couple things like I did when he goes to bed. I was talking about heaven and we were reading a little bit about it and musicians and harps and all this stuff. Of course, here's a kid racing bikes and all these kind of things. He looks up and he goes, "Dad I don't think I'm gonna like heaven." And I said, "Coy why would you say that?" And he goes, "Playing a harp," he says, "I'm not there." I says, "Let me tell you something Coy. We're gonna have to leave this up to God 'cause if it's playing a harp I'm not sure I'm gonna go home and be excited about it either."<br />
<br />
You know what I think heavens gonna be? God made us this way. He made us competitive right?<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Yeah he sure did.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: I think there's gonna be some 1000 year football games. It's gonna be some 1000 year races and if not he's gonna work a miracle [crosstalk 00:20:30].<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: And I'm gonna make the touchdowns this time right?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Amen. Amen. I may even be a star up there and get to carry the ball so ...<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: We are made a little different.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Yeah.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Than women, and that competitive edge is there and for some guys a whole lot more than others. If our listeners, the men out there, are among those that are driven from within, be careful. That's dangerous. You can make the biggest mistake of your life. That's what you're trying to say in Racing to Win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: All men have a desire, I think, to really do something great and I see great pastors and people have great visionaries like yourself, but I think if we're not careful that drive it needs to be channeled and we need to be studying. We need to know what the game plan is and like you said Jim I made a rededication in 1972 just off what you were talking about. There may be some men out there that said, "Hey look, yeah I believe in God. I have a personal relationship, but I'm not on fire." We need to get in God's Word. Serious prayer, Bible study and get with a group of people in a church or Bible study.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: You're using your present responsibility in NASCAR to win people to the Lord inside that sport aren't you?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: We have a dynamic chance for opportunity inside the motor sports. Think about this: we're going to 36 cities, moving all around the country, taking a lot of people that have real good testimonies, and the people there come for three and four days, they have nothing to do. They're ready to listen. We're doing some exciting things inside of motor sports to reach out.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Bible studies?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Bible studies at race shops. We have a full-time chaplain at our race shop. Bob Dyer, and he works with all of our people. We have Bible studies each week. We have small group studies. So-<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: You led Dale Jarrett, one of your drivers, to the Lord didn't ...<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Well actually what happened, Dale Jarrett and Jimmy Makar, our crew chief and driver, the famous driver Dale Jarrett, they came on board with us and it happened to be the year that we won the Super Bowl in Minnesota. We went to the Super Bowl, they came to the Super Bowl chapel service and I'll always remember that, and in that service, when it came time to make commitments to Christ they stood up and both Kelly and Patty stood up too and it was one of the greatest ... It was one of the greatest nights I've ever been a part of. So ...<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Well it is a pleasure to have you here. I've loved you and appreciate your friendship for all those years and anytime you write a book you come back will ya?<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Well there's so many people praying for y'all. I think you're helping to change the world and I'm praying, in America, we need a moral awakening.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Oh and that-<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: That's what I'm praying for.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Is the only thing that's gonna save. Racing to Win is the name of the book. Subtitle is Establish Your Game plan for Success. Not excess, but success. And I recommend this book to our listeners. Now you talked a lot in this book about going too fast and overworking. You gonna run out of here, you're on a wing and a prayer literally today trying to get to where you're going.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Today's probably not the best day for me to be talking about that. I got up at 3:30 and we're gonna go all day and race cars this afternoon in Phoenix, but it's amazing the way you can get around in the world, but I'm much-<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: I got up at 4:15 so I don't know if I'm any better.<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Well I got my priorities. We're kind of enjoying things as we go now.<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Blessing to you. Give a hug to Pat for me.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Joe Gibbs: Thanks Jim, I will.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Dr. Dobson: Okay.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Roger Marsh: This is Roger Marsh and you've been listening to this Friday edition of Family Talk. I hope you enjoyed this uplifting conversation between Dr. James Dobson and NFL hall of fame coach Joe Gibbs. You can visit our broadcast page at DrJamesDobson.org for a link to coach Gibbs' popular book called Game Plan for Life there you can also learn more about his illustrious career as well as his current work on the NASCAR circuit. Simply go to DrJamesDobson.org and then go to today's broadcast page. On a more somber note, Joe Gibbs' son J.D. was mentioned a few times during the program. Sadly, J.D. Gibbs passed away a little over a month ago. After battling with Neurological disease since 2015. We ask that you keep the Gibbs family in your prayers during this time of grief and sorrow for them.<br />
<br />
I'm Roger Marsh and I hope you've enjoyed this week of broadcasts here on Family Talk. Join us Monday for another exciting and informative conversation right here on Doctor James Dobson's Family Talk.<br />
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