A Men’s Breakfast Workshop: A Discipling Plan for Our Kids
Josh Pool
Brothers,
If your life resembles mine, the good, God-given demands and responsibilities of life quickly pile up. It becomes easy to react rather than to lead, to simply do rather than to think or plan or lead. Throw in some unhelpful habits or apathy or fatigue along the way, and we may find ourselves in places we don’t want to be. We’re not leading like we want to. Can you relate?
Because of this, we want to devote most of this Saturday’s men’s breakfast to provide some space to think. Our men’s ministry theme for 2025 is fatherhood. We’ve considered it from multiple vantage points. The fruit has been encouraging to hear and to see. But for Saturday, we don’t want to teach. We want to execute. In particular, we want to provide space for to create (or update or dust off?) a discipling ‘plan’ as dads for your families. What do I mean?
Well, if you could be deliberate about where you want to see your kids develop and grow, what would it be? Here are some examples:
Theological Formation: What do you want your kids to know about God? about themselves? about life?
Character Formation: What do you want your kids to become? Where do you want to see them grow up as men and women?
Skill Building: What skills do you want them to have—whether personal or otherwise? Around the house, the cars, finances, etc?
Experiences: What formative experiences do you want them to have?
And after that, we need to ask, What now? How can we take small, realistic steps toward executing these goals for our families?
These questions fit any father’s stage of leadership if he has kids in the home. If you have little ones, this is a perfect time to think ahead. If your kids are getting older, this could be a useful change of direction, a more deliberate path while you still have some time left with them.
That’s what I hope Saturday morning can do, at least in part. I know an hour on a Saturday morning cannot set your kids’ trajectory for decades to come. But perhaps it can help, even improve, this conviction to lead well.
Might you consider joining us at 8:30am Saturday, July 19th?
One last thing…
To the graybeards:
Most of you are past this part of life. You may tempted to think of a workshop like this as unnecessary. I disagree. This is exactly why we need you there: sitting at the table next to a young(er) dad, helping him think, giving him some good counsel. We welcome your wisdom.
To guys who aren’t dads:
I know: not every CBC man is a dad. That’s okay, and good, and God’s providence for us. But every CBC man can join us, eat a good breakfast, help us think, learn, grow, and potentially prepare. And even if it’s not for your kids, do it for yourself. Help other men too.