One of the things I love about reading the Bible is that it is relational at its core. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Father/Son language and relationships are throughout the word of God. This relationship reveals the idea of passing down truth.

When we do not have fathers and mothers in the faith standing for truth, passing down truth, defending truth, the generation behind them lose their way. When parents let their children decide for themselves on subjects they are not equipped emotionally or intellectually to make, those decisions cripple them, not liberate them.

The apostle Paul is a father in the faith and he is speaking to his son, Timothy, in 1 Timothy 1:5-7 and says, “The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.”

Paul was exhorting Timothy to remain in love, keep a pure heart and never lose a good conscience, for these attributes are safe guards for teaching the word of God. But Paul also warns him about fruitless discussions that arise amongst those who have lost these attributes.

Reading this today made me realize, we all need to examine ourselves to see if we have the same goal of our instruction as Paul said Timothy needed to have or we too may have gotten off into fruitless discussions.

We need fathers and mothers in the faith to know the truth, stand for the truth, defend the truth and pass on the truth. The youth are not to lead, for they are to learn, but when parents relinquish their authority to culture, the next generation suffers. The revival of truth is here, stand up parents and be truth speakers in love. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org