Vision
To facilitate the restoration of the Biblical design for family throughout the Denver metro area and beyond, radically changing and restoring both current and future generations. This will be accomplished by engaging fathers through a “Rad Dad” discipleship program, which meets with an individual father or group of fathers over seven weeks, teaching seven topics: Team, Mission, Identity, Culture, Training, Rhythms, and Rest—transforming their view of fatherhood, inspiring them to take an active role in their family, and helping them cast vision while providing them with many practical tools to implement in their households. An ongoing community will be established by providing additional discipleship opportunities for fathers who want to stay connected and go deeper. Leaders will be identified and provided with continued training, materials, and ongoing support to start their own “Rad Dad” discipleship. This creates households that can offer community, discipleship, and training accessible within a 5-mile radius of every family in the Denver metro area and beyond, growing a vibrant network of strong Biblical households. Impacting households in this way will shape neighborhoods, cities, and ultimately the culture at large.
Mission
“Restore the Biblical design of family by equipping fathers to be intentional leaders of their families”
Core Beliefs
WE BELIEVE:
We are all created in the image of God. God blessed us and gave us a pattern to follow at creation—mirroring His image, His work, His ruling, His expansion, and His care. As His image bearers, we continue this in partnership with Him (Genesis 1).
God designed a man and a woman to come together and become one flesh—this is a family. This points to the mystery that was revealed through the relationship of Jesus and the Church.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
(Genesis 2:24 ESV)
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.” (Ephesians 5:31-32 ESV)
This family structure is the way to multiply and fill the earth.
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” (Genesis 1:28 ESV)
Together a family can carry out the blessings and mission given to us by God described in the following scriptures:
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” (Genesis 1:26-28 ESV)
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
(Genesis 2:15 ESV)
“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’” (Matthew 28:18-20 ESV)
“Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’”
(Genesis 12:1-3 ESV)
Families are all uniquely suited to carry out the mission encompassing all the unique abilities given to them by God.
A Biblical vision for family includes the nuclear family but goes beyond it, which we refer to as “households.” A household can include grandparents, extended family, those your family partners with in work, ministry, and others that have been enfolded into a family.
Families build households and households govern for the Kingdom of God. We start by being fruitful. This leads to multiplying and multiplication leads to filling. As we fill we have the capacity to build order and structure—then we rule over it generationally. This is God’s design.
A wife is showing God’s favor and grace to a man:
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.” (Proverbs 18:22 ESV)
Children are a blessing and reward from the Lord:
“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.” (Psalms 127:3 ESV)
God designed husbands to be the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church and husbands are to love their wives just as Jesus loves the church:
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…” (Ephesians 5:22-25 ESV)
God is a relational God and He reveals Himself through a family living by His design. This can bring blessings to the earth and show a picture of His Kingdom. God designed family as the best vehicle to be known and loved, both as a physical and spiritual family. A family is designed to be interdependent and use their resources to help each other and to serve others.
God put a pattern into the creation of a seven-day week with six days of work and one day of rest as a way to order our lives (Genesis 1 and 2).
Fathers are to instruct, train, and teach their children (Deuteronomy 6, Proverbs 4, Ephesians 6:4, Proverbs 22:6, Matthew 28:19-20).
Identity comes from God’s Word. Our primary identity is as sons and daughters of God and is largely communicated through family. Additional identities such as a Husband and Father are an extension of our primary identity where God calls us Sons. We continually live in our identities as Husband and Father. This doesn’t change when we leave the home.
Families are well-suited to take all the gifts given by God, grow them, steward them, and share them to bring blessings on earth and help establish God’s kingdom as it is in Heaven.
He has confessed with his mouth Jesus is Lord, and believes in his heart God has raised Him from the dead. He is in covenant with God, fully submitted to Him, and walks daily as a disciple of Jesus. Romans 10:9, Luke 9:23, and 1 John 2:3-6
He partners with God, his wife, and his children to carry out the mission laid out in Genesis 1 and Matthew 28.
He recognizes that the Biblical model to build strong households and make disciples has been undermined and substituted with misaligned values. This has kept households from discovering the ancient ways that have worked for thousands of years.
He takes time to think through the best ways to apply God’s design to his household to help everyone flourish.
He cast a vision large enough to capture all his household’s giftings and resources and continues to cast the vision to keep his household engaged.
He points his household towards a mission that everyone works together to accomplish.
He establishes rhythms that help his household best live out their mission and Biblical values.
He intentionally prioritizes and incorporates values that build a Biblical culture in the household and from there become an extension to be a blessing and further their influence in the world.
He spends time instructing, training, and discipling his children, realizing this is a responsibility trusted to him by God, and his children will go on to make other disciples.
He regularly assesses and takes inventory of the household. Through this he recognizes the needs of the household and provides the resources to fill them.
He establishes a Biblically rooted identity for everyone in his household and keeps away competing, false identities.
He stewards all the resources entrusted to him and multiplies these resources (Matthew 25 and Luke 19).
He recognizes the way he interacts with his family is a picture of a relational God to the world, and through that image they can point people to God the Father through Jesus the Son.
He thinks beyond the next generation and prepares for his children’s children.
He realizes he can accomplish more through multiple generations than he can through just one. This changes the trajectory and outlook of his family and has permanent multi-generational impact on the world.
He takes responsibility and leads his family in missional (outreach-based) activities that flow from his household.
He connects with a community of believers to walk this out together.
He looks for ways to activate his household as an outpost for the kingdom of God and ultimately works to establish God’s kingdom first and foremost.
He is always ready to share this with others.
A FATHER WHO IS RESTORING HOUSEHOLDS AND DISCIPLING GENERATIONS