RAISING UP MEN OF GOD
TO FATHER AN orphaned WORLD
Dear Bride of Christ,
Prisons are not only places of punishment. They are signposts pointing to deep wounds in our homes, our communities, our churches and the hearts of our children. Boys who grow up apart from their biological father are twice as likely to have spent time in prison by around age 30 - they are statistically more likely to land behind bars than to complete college. Girls raised fatherless are ten times more likely to suffer from depression. A generation is asking whether they are depressed or whether they grew up without a dad.
FATHERS ARISE declares that this crisis will not be solved by policy alone. It will be solved when sons of God step forward from the local church having fought through their own brokenness, become beloved sons and spiritual fathers, and taken up the discipline of discipleship in the home, the church, and the streets.
For the past six years, via different appellations, we have invested skin in the game. Today, we host one day conferences led by local ambassadors, gathering men to strip masks, name wounds, practice vulnerability, repentance and confession, deepen intimacy with Christ, and be trained to live and preach the gospel courageously in public. These gatherings bring local churches together to call men out of the false masculine and out of the gagged and muzzled posture imposed by the spirit of the age.
We are witnessing men of every age and stage and background step into the fullness of the authority God has entrusted to them and embrace the high call of Christ.
These men are then funnelled into our community and weekly Zoom sanctuaries. We do the hard formation work that produces biblical men who stay around to shepherd their sons and daughters and father a wayward, fearful church and a lost world.
This is a cultural emergency and a spiritual opportunity. We answer with gritty gatherings, spiritual formation, holy scripture and glorious presence. We answer by rising. Fathers, arise!
Prison Reform Trust, in a 2008 study of sentenced children, found that 76% had an "absent father". On our watch we have a generation drowning in identity confusion and abandonment. The secular world sees the need for fathers arising in an orphaned generation. Only the sons of God from the local church, who have fought through their brokenness as the beloved, to become spiritual fathers and biblical men, will provide the solution. It’s time.
Let us serve what God is doing in your midst.
Fathers, arise.
For His kingdom and glory,
Dominic Muir
Founder
restoring men in our generation
“I learned how to resolve conflict and see who I really am as God’s son, a father and a leader.”