Husbands, here are 25 ways to spiritually lead your family:
- Pray daily with your wife.
- Write a love letter that she'd like to receive.
- Discover her top three needs and over the next twelve months go all out to meet them.
- Buy her a rose. Take her in your arms. Hold her face gently. Look into her eyes and say, "Id marry you all over again!"
- Take her on a weekend getaway.
- Read the scriptures to her.
- Replace the "D" word with the "C" word! (D = divorce; C= commitment)
- Court her.
- Remain faithful to her.
- Fulfill your marriage covenant.
- Have a family time at least one night a week.
- Use circumstances to teach your children to trust God.
- Protect your family from evil.
- Restrain your teenager's passion.
- Set spiritual goals for your children
- Take your children on mission trips.
- Catch your kids doing something right.
- Date your daughters.
- Inspect what you expect.
- Do a Proverbs breakfast Bible study with your teens (fifteen and older).
- Hug and kiss your sons and daughters.
- Ask your children for forgiveness when you fail them.
- Pray with them.
- Call them to a spiritual mission to do what God wants to do with their lives.
- Persevere and don't quit.
List from The Art of Marriage Small-Group Series Workbook (Little Rock: Family Life Publishing, 2012), 40.