Why are fathers important to the courtship process?
I will be encouraging you as fathers to be strategic in your approach to teaching, modeling and carrying out a plan to help your children toward marriage. Your plan may not look like mine, but I will be challenging you with many questions that need to be answered to prepare a successful plan. You can procrastinate or be passive with your responsibilities, but that is not what your children are looking for. They want your guidance – if they can trust you. They want your counsel if you have their best interests in mind. You may tell yourself that you are too timid to make the judgments required of a father in courtship. This is the time to be bold. This is the time to do things and ask questions that are typically uncomfortable – for the sake of your children. This is not meant to be a solo act for fathers. There will be years of preparatory training where you lay down the foundations of what marriage should be and what it should look like. When an actual courtship starts you need to inv
