Allen - Living For Eternity

Eventually, I’ll end up saying something that you may disagree with. No one walks in lockstep 100% of the time. What I ask is that when we disagree, we are able to be respectful, amicable, and have a conversation about it. If you push away people every time you disagree about something, you’ll end up with a smaller and smaller circle until you’re ultimately just alone. We have a country and a future to restore for our grandchildren, let’s keep that in front of us as the priority and not get sidetracked by petty differences. Lord willing, we shall have our home again, but what good is having our home if we no longer have the community to share it with? Deus Vult ⚔️

The "professional" church culture has turned brotherhood into a shallow social club where you chat about the weather, politics, and sports on Sunday and then go your own separate way the other six days of the week, completely disconnected to the other men in the congregation. You sit in pews next to men you do not know and whose sons you do not really care about, while older men sell their productive local businesses to foreign private equity groups and strangers rather then apprentice and mentor the next generation. Real brotherhood is shared through building and suffering for a shared mission and vision of the future. Hire your brother’s son as an apprentice. Let him learn through failure in your shop. Teach him what true discipline and dedication takes. Give him real authority and the ability to add real value. If possible, set him up as a successor of the business that God allowed you to build. Pour into him and show him that there is a vision of a better future. Give him hope. That is how you break the downward cycle of fractured generational unity between men. Sons need faithful fathers, and fathers need honorable sons.