People Need Hope

I have to confess something to you. I hope you don’t mind. It is awful. Terrible, actually.

I am a parent and I no longer listen to the Focus on the Family radio show.

I know. I’m a horrible parent and Christian. But please – hear me out first.

You see, I came to Christ a little over 10 years ago. At that time, AM radio was still the best way to obtain Christian programming. Since then, podcasts have emerged and become more like Tivo for the radio – on demand radio shows. I’m no longer required to listen at a specific time should I have to take a conference call for work during the time slot allocated to a radio show.

But there is more to it than that. The more I kept listening, the more I started to realize that I wasn’t hearing discussions on hope and making things better. All I heard was what is wrong with the world – whining and nagging and everything I’m not doing today that I should be. I understand that there are many wrongs that must be righted and everything can’t be roses, but think about the missed opportunities. Parents are already aware of the wrongs in the world. They battle it everyday. What they need is hope and help, not nagging and more things to do in their already busy lives.

I think it is time to provide hope to families. We’ve been talking about leading people to a cause by creating big hairy audacious goals. I think today, more than ever, we need you to lead us. We need the next generation of leaders that can provide hope for families, not whining. It is way past time.

Will you lead families that are in need of hope to Christ?

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