By divine design fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families Each of you are on that pathway leading toward Zion ID: 485601
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Fathers Preside, Provide, and Protect Slide2
"By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families."Slide3
Each
of you are on that pathway leading toward Zion.
Each step of the way will bring you closer to being prepared to be a father or
mother in Zion.
The pathway to
FATHERHOOD AND
MOTHERHOOD does not come in a day. It comes over years of proceeding forward step by step on the pathway of virtue.
“A revelation I give unto you concerning my will; and if thou art faithful and walk in the paths of virtue before me, I will preserve thy life, and thou shalt receive an inheritance in Zion.”
(
Doctrine & Covenants 25:2
)Slide4
Pathway of Manhood
1.
Birth, Name & Blessing
2. Nursery and Primary
3
.
Baptism,
Faith in God, & Cub Scouts
4. Boy Scouts & graduate from Primary
5. Receive the Aaronic Priesthood, become a deacon & pass the sacrament
6. Become a teacher & begin attending SeminarySlide5
Pathway of Manhood
7. Become a Priest, Bless the
Sacrament, drive a car and go on your first date
8. Receive the Eagle Scout & Duty to God Awards
12. Become a dad
10. Graduate from college and start career
9. Graduation,
Melchizedek
Priesthood, endowment, & go on
A
mission
11. Sealed for time and all eternity in the House of the LordSlide6
The
responsibility to protect a family stretches far beyond the obvious physical shelter and security a father should provide. President Howard W. Hunter (1907–95) taught: “A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.” Fathers can protect their children by teaching them to make wise choices regarding the media they choose and the friends they spend time with.
The Lord said “that every man who is obliged to provide for his own family, let him provide, and he shall in nowise lose his crown” (D&C 75:28). In today’s world being able to provide for a family often depends on a father’s willingness and opportunity to obtain sufficient education. But acquiring an education and suitable employment and providing the necessities of life does not mean spending an inordinate amount of time working to create a high standard of living.
The Lord said “that every man who is obliged to provide for his own family, let him provide, and he shall in nowise lose his crown” (D&C 75:28). In today’s world being able to provide for a family often depends on a father’s willingness and opportunity to obtain sufficient education. But acquiring an education and suitable employment and providing the necessities of life does not mean spending an inordinate amount of time working to create a high standard of living.
President Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) warned that some fathers spend so much time providing for things far beyond the necessities of life that physical possessions become their false gods and they have little time to preside in their families in love and righteousness.
President
Spencer W. Kimball
President
Howard W. Hunter
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