Mar 6, 2022
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Robert Lewis
Few have had as significant an impact on discipling men in the
past forty years than Robert Lewis. As a pastor, speaker, and
author, Robert’s passion for leading men to grow in biblical
manhood led him to produce the Men’s Fraternity film series in
1995. This three-year men’s curriculum quickly spread into
churches, businesses, colleges, and even correctional facilities
across the United States and later to over 20 countries. Today,
Men’s Fraternity and its follow up series, 33, have impacted
millions of men worldwide.
Author of numerous books including best-selling The Church of
Irresistible Influence, Raising a Modern-Day Knight, and Rocking
the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage, Robert is known for helping
men build their lives on practical biblical truth that gets
real-life results.
Now, in authoring the “BetterMan” curriculum, Robert offers a
new way for men, especially younger men, to get their hands around
God’s timeless design for authentic manhood.
Show Notes:
- :52 - we just released a free film series. A
short video series "Adding Life to the Dad Life" https://dadawesome.org/life/
- 5:34 - "When the wedding day came, I was wondering where dad
was or dad was at home drunk in bed before the wedding went on
without him."
- 6:20 - "My wife and I just celebrated our 50th wedding
anniversary together, and what we did for our wedding anniversary
is we had all the grandkids. I have 10 of them and our kids come
out just to us and we replayed our marriage ceremony."
- 8:10 - Serial monogamy. Robert explaining how marriage is a
series of marriages to the same woman
- 10:12 - Community - "I got with two
other dads this we had seven sons"
- 10:51 - "We designed ceremonies for sons. We came up with four
ceremonies, one that we would do when they became a teenager. 13.
One when they got their driver's license at 16 independence. One
when they left home. Hopefully for college with total independence
from Spain. We have 18 and then one when they graduated from
college at twenty one. So that was four ceremonies. And over the
next 20 something years we did twenty eight ceremony funds and we
are so glad that we did because all seven of us sons are strong
believers doing well in all of their forties now."
- 12:50 - "two things that remain friends...
drawing wisdom from them and that season lives and their
friendship. And the other thing is staying close to
God personally, those two things. And then you have the
two essentials
- 14:07 - "God gave me two men, but we became close together and
we both had the same desire to be good at family, good at
parenting, good at our marriage."
- 15:27 - Phases to Knighthood.
- 16:13 - "what if we raised our boys to be in a culture Knights
to their world?
- 18:44 - Application to moms and daughters
- 19:36 - Five
Essentials to Engage Today’s Men - Barna and BetterMan --
"There’s no denying that today’s men face unique cultural
challenges in life, work, and ministry. That’s why we partnered
with Barna to create a comprehensive resource for pastors, men’s
ministry leaders, and mentors looking to effectively reach today’s
men. Filled with eye-opening statistics and thought-provoking
insights, this study is catered to empower you as you support men
on their journey towards better."
- 32:07 - "sons are looking for the substance of life, as I
hope to prove they hunger for the best things in the absence of
these anchors, sons drift. But when loving dads add these into the
manhood mix, their sons flourish. They become noble men, gentlemen,
men of valor, principled men, knights."
- 34:37 - Proverb 17:6 says; "Grandchildren are the crown of the
aged, and the glory of children is their fathers...and "glory" word
as the implication of weight. And I remember when I read that I
thought, that's interesting the weight of sons, which their dads,
and all of a sudden I realized what dads give their sons weight,
which stabilizes them. You have those inflatable dummies that you
can get up in the air."
- 36:40 - Robert's prayer
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