Healthy sonship and fatherhood

The church doesn’t need more leadership—it needs more sonship.

Jesus encouraged that we become more like children

To be exact, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).

The beautiful thing is, one of God’s eternal purposes, established before the foundation of the world, was to create a family. And thanks to God’s redemptive work on the cross, it’s finished. In Christ, we can be reborn and adopted as God’s children. The disciple John put it like this: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (John 3:1).

So we are. And so am I.

Knowing my role as a son is the most important part of my identity in Christ, I aim to live that out in a ministry of fatherhood. While it’s rarely talked about in this way, the divine reality is that Jesus shared in a ministry of Fatherhood, too. Only, He didn’t show up as some wise old sage who sat around the temple, murmuring wise sayings. He penetrated our world as a Child, a Son. He only did what He saw the Father doing. And He instructed that we give the title of Father to nobody else on earth.

Similarly, if I want to reveal the perfect love of my Father in heaven to the world, I need to show them the Son. I’m still figuring out all that this means in my life, but I do know I’m called to it. Fortunately, I don’t have to do it alone, either. Just like Jesus only did what He saw the Father doing, I too am invited to do only what I see the Son doing. We all are.

What Love.

In service of others

Knowing that my life is not about me, I aim for this theme of my work to help the curious believers I serve:

Relinquish their sense of obedient obligation to the Lord and enter more fully into His restful joy
Tangibly experience more of the Father’s astounding love for them as a direct result of the Son’s life and the Spirit’s help
Participate in the divine family of God as children of Abba and brothers and sisters to one another and Jesus
Unlearn and rethink what it means to lead and minister within the church
Recognize and take greater hold of their shared inheritance in the saints
And more