World Challengers With @ScottWilliams

Today you get to hear from a great friend of mine.  His name is Scott Williams and he is a tremendous leader, pastor, communicator, author, husband and father.  Scott and I worked together at LifeChurch.tv for several years and had an absolute blast!  He has been a great friend and instrumental in helping me launch EpicParent.  I asked Scott to write today because I believe he is a strong father and works hard at investing in his two boys.  Thanks for posting Scott, GREAT, STRONG POST!

As parents we desire nothing more than to raise our children up to be the next generation of World Changers.  That phrase can almost seem cliché’ at times.  What does it really mean to raise up a world changer?  If you are being really honest, do you believe that your child is going to change the world?  If you don’t believe it, you better believe they definitely won’t believe it.

I love hearing Pastor Steven Furtick talk about his sons and how they are the greatest men of God of their generation.  Sounds kind of cocky; however that’s the type of belief, faith and encouragement we have to speak into our children’s lives, if we want them to change the world.

I have two sons, Wesley (11 yo.) and Jayden (7yo.)  I truly believe that they will be some amazing Godly leaders and world changers.  One of the things that we do to foster that world changing type mentality is encourage them to be World Challengers.  You may ask what do you mean by “World Challengers?”

We allow our boys to challenge things.  They can challenge decisions, directions, and reasons etc. in order to have a more clear understanding.  In other words, I don’t lay down the authoritarian “do what I say now, without any questions PERIOD” type philosophy.   I want them to ask questions and to challenge things for the sake of understanding, learning, growing and being a world challenger.  We allow, dialogue – never to the point of disrespect, however discussion in many situations is encouraged.  This does create some challenges when they go to my mom’s house, because she’s a little old school.  Her favorite phrase is, “Don’t ask why, because why is not appropriate.” As parents, the governing principle at the end of the day is always going to be, Ephesians 6.  They are going to obey.

If the only response a child learns is to do it just because, it minimizes their independent problem solving skills and develops more doers than leaders.

I’ll close with a thought from an excerpt from an old Apple commercial that aired years before the iMac & iPhone popularity.   The commercial challenged people to “Think Different.”  “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

World Challengers change the world.

Are you raising a World Challenger?

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