Promise Keepers Revived

Debacle the frozen American male men already know this and so much time working and chasing the dollar.

The transmitter time with her kids and transparent. Otherwise, they literally are not around any other medical: Chuck Smith will see things that other men that direct C. Welcome to family life today where we help you pursue the relationships that matter most kind and wealthy and I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us@familylifetoday.com or on our family life. This is family life okay answers a question I want to ask you if you know of the pivotal moment in my life an event that changed me as a man marrying me was it married you. That's that should be what I was thinking of that I was actually thinking of.

I think it was 1995 promise keepers at the Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, something like 75, 80,000 men in Narita, you know, I'm sitting in the end zone actually watching these men speak it on, and it's a place where a bit on the sideline. I added it up over 2000 Sundays on the sideline in the Silverdome and now I'm in the end zone bleachers where I never was. You know during a football game and it was one of the most spectacular men's events at event Portofino. I remember about that event you are there you will remember now to get this is what I remember I remember talking to all the wide, about a week after that event because they were saying.

My husband is a different man and I don't even know what's happening but I'm loving it. Yeah, and that the thing like it wasn't just a one time experience it really change a lot of men for their entire lives, and it affected their legacy yet, and one of the questions is what happened the promise keepers because it was around for a while and then now it is been gone for a while, but we get today to find out the future, a promise keepers because we have Ken Harrison, the president and CEO promise keepers who's going to let us know what going on.

I was going to happen in the future so can welcome the family like today but yes you yeah and so I'm excited. Talk about a meeting that was a pivotal moment. I didn't just go to one, you know in Michigan went to Indianapolis and we took I think we took 3000 men from our church while to one event you know in it. It was incredible wet. But what happened but you know as I was looking you up can invite it out and then you've got an incredible resume date was read to me.

He kept going on and on and you've done a lot of great things that it all away from being a police officer back in LA it and wants to talk about your your journey to where you are today little bit so my father had been a famous Los Angeles policeman who shot in the Watts riots in 1965 or does the Jordan where I grew up as a boy and that I will back to Los Angeles and really pretty and that I was in the middle of all run itching stuff that I was a highly degreed officer Susan is a very unique perspective, especially single fatherlessness does the boys. It's a very Christian culture church very family culture which is about 10% of boys followed mass violence to shootings and murders mightily.

8 mi.² of division divisions in Los Angeles. We hundred 80 murders a year. Think about the violence of that left after a rollicking stuff you got it is doubly blessed me and so was able to start a company selling and run really enjoyed international company and then retire the old age of 45, 2000 you think you as you retire that you were just now 45 going to soon walk into retirement modem and what happened was doing what the world says that a good Christian is supposed to do well. God says no. Good guy over to my wife got use four letter words that will trigger movies and ski. I thrust my life as you know, yeah, I love it were like oh you will be happy. I was ecstatic all the books there was when Rita written Luther responded to the will use 14 I was praying and realistic awards. Feel the spirit of those moments we have those mountaintop moments with the liberties of the father's right there and also that he came to be and set. I did not put you through everything. I didn't teach you everything I did, so you can scan and I said Lord what to do. He said are you going to be as ambitious for Mike individual for your kingdom and to be two hours to rustle through wrestler but if you want, and prosecute destructive here's a question can be now you're the president, CEO, promise keepers. Some of our listeners may not even know the journey of the history of promise keepers to walk us through that real briefly like Windows start what happened and why did it stop and why are we where we are today is an unbelievable thing, so coach Bill McCartney started in 1990 and it exploded was a social movement of the spirit that they were there selling out as you today NFL stadiums all over America for basically from a 90 to 98 talking to climax in 2007 1.4 million men went to the mall of the million Man March elections call stand in the gap.

Biggest event in the history Washington DC if you walk in the park police headquarters today. There is a picture of that and because it was the biggest moment, but also because it was the greatest moment in and after that the promise keepers descended pretty quickly in the a lot of reasons for this leader. Sometimes organizations get great. We forget that it was the Holy Spirit who built up enough people and people to get involved in the chill were trying to do God is great and move greatness in humble hearts to humble people and when we start to get you going.

We want to get credit starts to fold it on himself and so delete that I believe God right now is not trying to raise promise keepers again.

He's trying to rid promise keepers is simply the vehicle for which is doing in this time, promise keepers had one amazing thing was story after story like you told Dave of guys who went to Nevada. Came home, told her needs further wife and said, I'm so sorry and I'm unbelievably change lives. I can tell you guys just beautiful amazing things of letters of Don from elderly women about how their husbands are transformed but the problem with that was once people left the Silverdome they were ready to Churchill about water and I got the hell didn't know what to do with the buck because no ability for discipleship and so many great change lives. The movement itself didn't change America and the world's most didn't have the ability to decide what we try to follow in the local churches today. That's changed and so we had a virtual event last summer British code with 1.2 million people watch their virtual and 84 countries. So this summer in July 1670 for the other silver and blue stadium. We will be at Dallas Cowboys dated July 16-17 is going to be an unbelievable event and if you can't afford it will make sure that you can get you whatever we need to get you to get you there were working with college coaches in Texas to bring thousands of fatherless boys to the events of this is going to be probably the first major gathering in the world after covert and that gathering the American men coming together, worship Christ. Imagine the testimony that's going to be to the whole world and will be simulcasting all over the world. Military bases all over the world. Churches all over the world. We had something like 2000 people in India. What are event lackluster. So imagine announcing a CFO of American men worshiping the Lord raising their hands. Seeing that power is going to be an incredible thing until you this time when guys leave.

We got at it's a really good we've already got out. Tens of thousands of guys on talking to each other they can speak different languages so if you want to talk to somebody in Ukraine. You can type it in English and he sees it in Ukraine and and and when he types it was back to you to sure with each other the entire idea is stealing is great, but getting many discipleship groups, interferential groups, that's the ticket this time around, and I think that's what the Lord's prayer together. Yeah, I think, as you said the next step out of the promise keepers event or really any event is huge.

I remember listening to Larry crab Dr. Larry crab whose since gone with to be with the Lord and promise keepers event back in the 90s and it was soon inching because he got up there.

He said this is submitted in the euro 70,000 men yeah are you going to go home and be the most amazing man ever to be a better husband yeah but interlaced year and then he just looks at me goes not in all places like what are you doing right now. This is not what you say but his point was in less you take the next step in getting community with other men and get discipled in follow-up on this.

It'll just be one great moment that will be gone in six weeks and your wife and your kids will be frustrated because I saw something start, but never finished.

I think what you're talking about the next step in the committee. I know I'm in a group chat with like 15 other NFL quarterbacks that I been involved in with my years with the chaplaincy with the liens and that daily text back and forth Scripture sharing was going on. I need to know about our lives sharpening iron sharpening iron is literally life-changing. So it's great to hear that you not just doing an event you're doing a life-changing transformation movement really right. There is an epidemic of the friendless American male. It's really pornography is crushing our country is destroying women and children. As this is recommended that the victims were women and children. So much of that comes from fearlessness and loneliness and that we gotta get guys and that will recall, fire teams, since core terms for men forcing me to get you together not for guys before the common interests of the shall be friends of your golfer get three of the golfers hunters fishers skaters will never give your readers think to give those that come together through the promise keepers out in your local church available at all this has to be built through a local church with local pastors but you need to have friends that I would say women watching the slow times guys to be selfish so I'm not trying to justify selfishness from sin. A lot of times a guy wants to go to something with his friend to go golfing or something.

Wife feels that I have enough you need them in front of the house been expressed. You want to show the right course. But the men already know this and so much time working and chasing the dollar. The transmitter time with their kids and try to spend time with their wives that they literally are not around any other men: Chuck Smith will see things that other men that your wife C and guys big relationship by doing stuff together not by having lunch right in our culture or society. The trickster built for women is not a bad thing but we go to church.

We sit down with socializing go home in I can go to lunch date with you for 20 years every week we will be friends will talk to win friends.

But when we when we go hunting and you miss that buck only to seeing you have a wrecking yard sale stuff goes all the rest are making fun of you laughing at us now as though you were, you know, we go have some hot chocolate after the ski day and none there's a closeness there is so men have to get together do and that's why the promise keepers and for so monumental because you 80,000 guys: while the singing of all these deep voices singing amazing Grace. I'm not alone. All these guys are seated you just like I all the classes go away all the races go away all the denominations. All the divisions you remember guys are crying and hugging each other and there's a whole all the walls of those module things that we have come down and there is ample ability for what we could do is keep that going in relationships through the local church can what your Santas so true.

I know this from thousands of other men that I personally know it in my own life. I remember exactly that feeling sitting in that stadium singing with thousands, tens of thousands of other men looking around and feeling what you just said I'm not alone.

There's not just a few men thirst tens of thousands of men, debtors after Jesus like I am and were together you know it on there for you and here's the other amazing thing I can literally remember the message that Dr. Joe stole gave him sit and they get back there in the end zone where I'm a young father.

Now my three sons are married and we have grandkids, but they were 10 maybe 11 years old. Three sons at home. I'm sitting there and Joe tells a story. He's a local Detroit pastor at the time, so I knew Joanna hadn't come in and do chapel for the liens. Everyone's well anyway, long story short, he tells a story about his front yard hunter forget that he goes you know I care a lot about my front yard. I take care of it. I don't hire a lawn service. I do it myself. I want my front yard to be the best yard in the neighborhood and you know what it was. It was perfect and I spent hours manicuring that yard feels one day I had to do a funeral for a 16-year-old boy in my church is as I'm driving back home from the funeral and I'm pulled up to my my house and I look at my front yard and I think yeah it's the best yard in the neighborhood who cares he goes in. I'm just thinking about I just did a funeral for 16-year-old boy so he says I run in my house yeah he says only thing I did like about my front yard.

It was there's a basketball hoop that my kids wanted on the driveway. It was an eyesore, but it was there because my kids wanted it right so he says he goes upstairs to his son's bedroom and he says hey dude you want to go play some hoops.

He is now dad I got I got homework. I can't do it right now and he goes that kid asked me everyday play hoops and most of the time I said hey later I got a work in the yard because I walk out of that my son's bedroom and I said to myself I missed I missed it for a front yard and you know he was Sandman you got a short window, don't miss because of things that are important, but they're not as important here I am him sit there. This is 30 some years ago. It literally changed my life. It was like that moment sitting in arena with thousands of other men going God's talking to me right now about my role as a dad was life changing.

So thinking that that went away but now can you are bringing promise keepers back those kind of moments that I experience are can be times a million you know is men sit there and I love what you're saying.

It isn't just going to be an event is going to be a movement that transforms churches, men and communities.

I'm a way to go. I'm so excited you got off your knees in prayer moments and okay God, I'm your guy you know and and took on this this mantle something because I know a lot of women are listening and we don't want to make our husbands. We don't want to bug them that every one of us thinks I want my husband to do this like I get teary as you guys are talking about this because we as women, we long for this because the man you're talking about is in a domineering heavy-handed leader. He's leading by serving and every woman longs for her husband.

The fathers, to really be connected to their children and so called chest as women and wives how we get our guys interested in this and I know one of the things is going to be prayer but is there anything else that we can do though there is. This is actually funny.

You know that 45% of the tickets that were sold in the 90s were bought by women residents buy from your sons and I always say the best gift woman can have for Mother's Day is a man who loves her, loves her kids and was priced right to say no AT&T stadium does that was the worst could be July 1670 this right next to Wilde. Six Flags is a part of the Texas Rangers baseball seems this is a great manager is a great trip for guys. Stick with her friends for their sons and so was it wise buy tickets and say funny but I know that is expensive but I want you to go to Dallas and be with those guys. I want you to come in trip I want you to take her son washing with your friends want to take some guys that maybe you would never think to take and your husband. You know your son Ms. Norby men. There's something in a manner so wants to be respected by his wife.

He still wants to have her look at him the way she did when they were dating when they're first married so many minute losses and they don't how to get back to not get back. They begin to act like children. A lot of times they begin to get worse.

We all do that right if we think someone thinks poorly of us than we certainly are always acting differently.

I can't tell you the value of you building your husband up and you may think will my husband this is my husband that tell him how much you love him and how much would mean to you if you would go to this because I'm telling you he will come either change man and he won't just come out of their change man from that moment, but working to get him friends in his local community that are godly men were foretelling work on the churches in your sons right now and are culturally they see so few examples of what a real man is what's real man. Jesus Christ was the ultimate real man and how what was Jesus Christ like what the Bible says that men love your wives like Christ loved the church and how does Christ loved the church, which is his bride. He gave his life for her, and so to limit if you were a humble leader where you were going to give up your life. Your wife and her kids. They will respond in kind. You talk about being respected. You talk about a woman who feels cherished and secure knowing that her husband has her best interest in place.

I'm telling that's an innocent baby go play golf with your friends go hunting. I can't wait for you to come back because I trust you. I love you if you like someone with you we can get there if this is not that hard without voice is always in her head you're not good enough man you have bad thoughts.

You look at pornography who you think you are your worthless and that management that all the time when don't reiterate that voice in his head for him, tell him he can be a better man. Only through the grace and love of Jesus Christ. If he gets around men who will tell him who he is reminded of his identity.

Little boys don't grow up hoping they can have the best long little boys about doing great things and that's what that preacher was talking about. She'd lost to she was a man he needed to be reminded of who he was as a man, and I hope it wasn't too late for that. Kids growing up $40 is sons of actually turned out to be great men. I know that you know and it soon answer your question I thought of years ago. There's a guy in our church that I was just getting to know a little bit playing basketball and we were connected and he was just new in his faith and he said to his wife.

I want to get a motorcycle she's like you like in a motorcycle that's the almost saying at their dangerous Bob and he kept asking her and then one day she says to him hey Chris, let me ask you some if you get a motorcycle are you going to ride with Dave Wilson and he goes yeah Dave asked me to go riding with him. He's right. He writes his motorcycle. She said go get the bike set up yet all her thought was if my husband can be around other men who are going to help them grow to be a godly man, husband and dad, let's do it. So Chris and I started hanging out that's what's going to happen. That's what I would say to the wives you buy a ticket you get your husband down to July 16, 17th, the promise keepers in Texas.

It's going to change his life. I know this after that promise keepers event in the early 90s for me. I sat down with the word of God and said okay.

I don't think I know what a godly man is.

I did have a dad I didn't have a vision for it and I developed what I call the four pillars of manhood. So men are church would know. Okay this is what a boy is, but this is what a man is in a husband and a dad and it became a mantra for our churches like are you a real man Re: AL just took that the word Re: AL and it literally change something in our church because men started to say okay I have a vision for what manhood is in the only way I can get. There is I need other men. Men don't become men without men as you know, it's a promise keepers. God bless you Ken for resurrecting this because it's not only get it changed our churches. I think it's can change our country so thanks Ken for doing this is exciting and exciting and I would really encourage all the women like let's be praying. I would love it if we would just take a day to fast until dinner because I know that spiritual warfare that will be going on about this is going to be great. And so for us as women like let's support our men by praying and really encouraging our men in reminding them of who they are and who God has called them to be a one blessing for the women after two is we are also simulcasting us all over the world us and so if you're like okay we Forget the Texas but you can go to your local pastor say get the simulcast have our men there and also for all the you're good to be able now to see what's happening and say so a lot of what I want to see what's going on so you will actually now be able to login and wafted out to so and work until met with the leader for a long time that sometimes a pastor in a mixed crowd can say whatever you say things there is something unique. I've seen it over and over is that happens that God does when men are with men is not saying the other doesn't matter. Women with women. There's just something that happens it's hard to describe. When God gets men alone together and addresses where they are and where he wants to take a it's a beautiful challenging moment that changes a man so thanks for saying yes to God's call to make out it would see what happens. The 2021 promise keepers men's conference is happening in July at AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas July 16 through the 17th great lineup of speakers. We got a link on our website@familylifetoa.com. You may want to plan a road trip go with guys and be at the stadium for the event is also to be a simulcast of the event. If you want to do your own promise keepers event in your church. Again, go to family life today.com and find out more about the live event and the simulcast the promise keepers men's conference July 16 and 17th in Arlington Texas again, the link is on our website@familylifetothe.com. Now we are really excited about the release of David and Wilson's new book, no perfect parents and about how well it's doing. How many people are saying this is the book we been looking for on parenting because we certainly fit the title.

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