Tell us about Courageous.
The storyline is about restoring men to fatherhood, taking the place that God intended for us.
It follows four different police officers, each of them in a different situation with their relationship with God and with their family.
They find their way back to God and back to the right relationships with their families.
Your website mentions a Boys to Men ministry. What is that?
One of the things that we recognized from day one was that men are important in children's lives.
So what we did was start a special mentoring program.
The public schools allowed us to go in and identify some boys who needed help.
Twice a month we bring those boys to our church and spend about two hours with them.
We have a Bible study for one hour, and then we expose them to the influence of godly men.
During the summer we bring them in for a 6-week boot camp.
We teach them academics in the morning, and sort of the rites of passage for a man in the afternoon.
What has the fruit of that ministry been?
We have the opportunity to track these boys, and we see some of them go into college.
Some of them are in the military.
Some of them have come back and are providing the leadership with Boys to Men.
They're staying with their families, and they're staying in the church.
Who should take the blame for out problem of fatherlessness?
I think there's enough blame to go around.
I think the church dropped the ball, because the church got away from sound biblical teaching and discipline.
A lot of pastors say that the world has changed and we have to change with it. I don't agree with that.
What do we need to do about racial reconciliation?
I'm convinced we need to still talk about it.
In my community, we have a long history of racial separation.
I was told that it would always be that way.
But if you really believe what the Bible says, that in Christ we are all one, then we can overcome that.
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