Fatherless
FATHERLESS
A cell group for fatherless men of all ages...
This came to me in church today...
I had a father at home as long as he lived, and I have raised my children as a present-father.
This idea is all about using the cell group concept
to especially
minister to adult men of any age...
who grew up fatherless.
It would be a hybrid
of a support group and a cell group.
There is an old
saying attributed to people from Mark Twain to Benjamin Franklin,
that says in effect, “He who is
self-taught has a fool for a teacher.”
This is how I am learning the banjo, and it shows.
I had a father at home as long as he lived, and I have raised my children as a present-father.
(Too-present at
times, according to them.)
But there are a lot
of men who grew up without a father,
having no one to teach them how to be a boy,
much less a man, or a husband or a father.
Some of these fatherless males become
husbands and fathers and kind-of go through the motions, hoping they are
doing things correctly, but are not really sure.
Update, August 2024: I have written a website to be used in such a cell group.
Also useful for private reading. See the photo.