{"id":302243,"date":"2011-03-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/making-men-of-boys\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:00:00","slug":"making-men-of-boys","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/making-men-of-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Men of Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father&#8217;s involvement can be a tremendous influence on his daughter&#8217;s dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2011-03-25.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"24.66M","filesize_raw":"25858510","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2836],"tags":[4018,2588],"podcast_series":[7516],"cwp_profile":[3048],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302243","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raising-girls","tag-dating","tag-teens","podcast_series-interviewing-your-daughters-date","cwp_profile-dennis-rainey","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302243\/making-men-of-boys","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302243\/making-men-of-boys","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gPWVEvjFhv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/making-men-of-boys\/\">Making Men of Boys<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/making-men-of-boys\/embed\/#?secret=gPWVEvjFhv\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Making Men of Boys&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"gPWVEvjFhv\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll hear some thoughts from Dennis today on questions you could ask a young man during a pre-date interview before he takes your daughter out.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Friday edition.\u00a0 This week we have been talking about a counter-cultural, maybe strange-sounding concept.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, I think only strange because those that are doing it don't talk about it a lot, but as I've talked about it here on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and at conferences and events where I've spoken, I've found that there's a lot of men who are interviewing their daughter's date.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If you had to guess, percentage-wise, all the dads in America who have daughters, and their daughters are teenagers, and their daughters are being asked out on dates by young men -- if there are 100 of those, how many of the dads are interviewing the dates, do you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think, in some form or another, up to 10 percent.\u00a0 I don't think it is 90 percent, which is what you'd wish, but \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Were you ever interviewed?\u00a0 Did any dad ever pull you aside and say, \"I want to talk to you?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not that I know of.\u00a0 I should have been, I mean, looking back on it, I wish there had been a dad sat me down and say, \"Young man, let's have a conversation here.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 In our day, there was this kind of, oh, you have to meet the parents before you take the daughter out.\u00a0 I remember being taught you don't just sit at the curb and honk.\u00a0 You go up to the house, and you meet the mom and you meet the dad, and that was about all there was to it.\u00a0 I figure you just have to make a good impression for about 90 seconds, and then you're out of there, you know?\u00a0 So that was kind of the bare threshold minimum.\u00a0 But how many dads \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So you cleared the hurdle, huh?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, I mean, most of us can get by for 90 seconds, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But how many dads do you think out of 100 -- if 10 percent are doing something, how many out of 100 are having the kind of heart-to-heart that you're talking about, a serious conversation before the young lady leaves the house?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Probably one or two of the 10.\u00a0 So it's not a lot, but it doesn't mean that it's not right, and that it shouldn't occur.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we've been talking about why it's important for a dad and for a daughter to go through this, but this is important for the young man as well, isn't it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is.\u00a0 In fact, I think there are all kinds of benefit that occurs when you have this interview.\u00a0 Your daughter feels love; secondly, the young man gets developed in his manhood and in his conscience and his character.\u00a0 We're going to be talking about that today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut, thirdly, I think your sons benefit as well, because they get to hear and watch and see and experience a father stepping into his daughter's life and interview a young man and then come back to the dinner table and talk about it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI'll never forget Benjamin, our second-oldest, after I'd interviewed one of Ashley's very first dates, and I came back to the dinner table.\u00a0 Ashley said, \"Well, how did it go?\"\u00a0 I told how it went and how impressed I was with the young man and what happened and a little bit of what I said.\u00a0 I didn't divulge it all; but I told enough so that both Benjamin and his brother, Samuel, could get the drift.\u00a0 It was a pretty gritty conversation with the young man.\u00a0 All eight of these points get to the bottom-line.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of the conversation, though, after I'd shared about interviewing this young man, Benjamin turned to me; and he said, \"Dad, I sure hope the first young lady that I ask out has a dad who asks to interview me because if he does, I'll know I\u2019m in the right place.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd, it was interesting, as Benjamin began to date, there was only one man that I knew of who ever asked to talk to Ben before he let his daughter go out with him.\u00a0 I thought, \"That's really too bad.\u00a0 That's a real loss for both Ben and, for that matter; Samuel didn't have any dads interviewing him, either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut neither of my sons dated that much.\u00a0 They didn't really have the opportunity during high school to have a lot of dates, but I wish they'd just had the opportunity to have been interviewed once.\u00a0 I think it would have been helpful for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We had our team re-create a story that apparently was taken from a true story.\u00a0 You tell it in your book<em>, Interviewing Your Daughter's Date<\/em>, about E.V. Hill, a pastor from Los Angeles\u2014African-American pastor, who checked out the young men his daughter was going out with.\u00a0 One night one of these young men showed up to take his daughter out; and Dr. Hill started his inspection, and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just based upon what he saw.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wasn't.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wasn't impressed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It wasn't a real pretty sight and, especially, by the time he'd asked him a few questions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0 Listen to this.\u00a0 This is good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 Daddy, where is my date?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Him?\u00a0 Look, honey, no daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 What are you talking about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 I said, \u201cNo daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 But, Daddy, you can't just send him away like that.\u00a0 I mean, what will I say to him the next time I see him?\u00a0 What are they going to say about me at school?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute here.\u00a0 Let me take a better look at you.\u00a0 Are you sure you're my daughter?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 What?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Come here a second.\u00a0 Baby, Baby, where are you at?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 In the kitchen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Baby, how long have we been married?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thirty years this June.\u00a0 Now get out of my way; I'm cooking your dinner, Dr. Hill.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute now.\u00a0 Help me think this thing out.\u00a0 Are you sure there was never anybody else but me?\u00a0 You're absolutely positive that when this girl was conceived, it was you and me -- nobody else?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, baby, just you and me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not the milkman, not the postman\u2014just me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mm-hm, you're the only man for me, Dr. Hill.\u00a0 She's yours.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good, that settles it.\u00a0 Baby?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, Daddy?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 No daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have the sense that Dr. Hill may have turned down a few more of his daughter's prospects than you did in your day, right?\u00a0 He went with his gut, didn't he?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He did, Bob, in fact, just the story is kind of legendary; but it gives encouragement and courage to men.\u00a0 You can do this.\u00a0 You can protect your daughter.\u00a0 You're the dad.\u00a0 You know, she's not in charge of this thing.\u00a0 I mean, yeah, she's a young person who is growing into maturity; but if she's about to make a mistake, or if she's about to go into a situation that is not desirable or, worse yet, dangerous.\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 Be the dad.\u00a0 Call it the way you see it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know what was always frightening to me, though, as a dad was I was concerned when my daughter would react or be emotional or say, \"Oh, Dad, no, no.\"\u00a0 Always concerned that I was somehow going to harden her heart; that I was going to turn her against me; that she'd go around my back and do it, anyway.\u00a0 I'd be stirring up rebellion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was interesting, Bob, we had at least one situation where one of our daughters was out of the home\u2014moved off on her own and just wasn't doing real well\u2014was struggling a bit spiritually and with us.\u00a0 Yet in the midst of that struggle and, you might say, rebellion, guess who shows up at our house with a young man for me to interview?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's just interesting in our children's hearts, I think they want to be protected, and the very thing they would push you out of their lives and keep you from doing is the thing they know, in their heart of hearts, that they need the most.\u00a0 The problem is they don't have the maturity to see beyond this to say, \"I need Daddy to help me in this, because I'm not sure about this guy.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you interview a young man, you are really building his character.\u00a0 You are building relationship with him\u2014you are talking man-to-man about real-life stuff about a man\u2019s passions, about the beauty of a woman, and how God created the attraction of male to female, and how He protects sex until marriage.\u00a0 You are talking to him around a real-life situation\u2014going out with your daughter in a healthy way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You are really being a \u201cfather\u201d to him\u2014not that you are taking the place of his father\u2014but you are being kind of the neighborhood father who says, \u201cSon, come here.\u00a0 Let me talk to you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You are modeling what real manhood looks like.\u00a0 We all know that if we are going to produce character in the next generation of young men, they all need to see different kinds of men giving leadership under different circumstances in different situations.\u00a0 I promise you, you can\u2019t sit in an interview like 30 to 40 young men did with me, without thinking through a lot of issues and going, \u201cMan, this is tough stuff.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is also the issue of valuing your daughter as a woman and demonstrating to a young man that, as a parent, you really do place a high premium on the value of your daughter and her protection.\u00a0 You're willing to do the most uncomfortable thing you could almost imagine to be able to protect her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, I told the young men, Bob, when I interviewed them, I'd say, \"You know, you may be nervous.\u00a0 I want you to know I'm nervous, too, but I'm doing the thing that I know I need to do because I love my daughter.\u00a0 I want to protect her, and I want to create a sense of accountability with you around her purity.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, one of my favorite questions I'd ask these young men when I talked with them is I'd say, \"Let's say that another young lady someday, somewhere is growing up right now and tonight she's going out on a date.\u00a0 Would you prefer that her father be interviewing the young man who is taking out your future wife on a date?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd they would always say, \"Oh, yeah.\"\u00a0 And I'd say, \"Well, you know, my daughter is probably somebody else's wife, might be your wife someday, but she's likely somebody else's wife.\u00a0 I'm calling on you to treat her with the same dignity you would like another young man to treat your future wife, if he was taking her on a date tonight.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey seemed to get that picture and respond to that at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You had a sense, when these guys came over, you could kind of tell where they were spiritually and what their level of maturity was.\u00a0 Yet, by the time they left, wherever it was when they started, they'd grown up a little bit in that half hour, don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, some of them had some good church-talk\u2014God-talk\u2014saying all the right things.\u00a0 But I think by the time you go through these eight points, which are so gritty and get to the core of the issues young people are facing today, I think some of the veneer melts.\u00a0 You're talking about passion.\u00a0 You're talking about, \u201cKeeping your lips and your hands off my daughter;\u201d and you're not blinking as a dad, as you look him in the eye.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one of the most profound moments of the entire interview is the last question I ask these men.\u00a0 I ask them, as a young man, I say, \"Someday God may give you the privilege of getting married.\u00a0 You may become a daddy, and you may have a daughter.\u00a0 I want to ask you, \u201cIf God does give you the unspeakable privilege of being a dad,\u201d I want to ask you, \u201cwill you make a commitment to me right now that if she wants to go out on a date that you will interview the young man who wants to take her out?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said, \"The reason why I can challenge you to do that is because you have now been trained,\" and they always used to kind of grin at that point and kind of bashfully look at me.\u00a0 But every one of them sat up a little straighter in their chair, and you could almost sense that you were calling something out of them, as young men, to step up to real manhood, step into the responsibility and say, \"You know what?\u00a0 I could do that.\u00a0 I've seen this done.\u00a0 I'll protect my daughter when I become a dad.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>As far as you know, did you interview all of the young men who took your daughters out during high school?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, Bob, I have it from good sources that I didn't.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Some of our kids went \"out.\"\u00a0 Now, for those of you who do not yet have teenagers and don\u2019t understand the language and the terminology of today\u2019s teens\u2014when you're going out with someone, it's that you are going steady.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, that's the whole \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're going out with them \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You guys are a couple; you guys are an item.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're an item; and I found out through the grapevine, in many cases, that our kids would hotwire this thing around the interview and find a way to establish a relationship with \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was a special boy, and you hadn't met the guy yet?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 And that usually brought about a different kind of interview, not with the young man but with the daughter and talking with her about trust and about keeping things above-board and about doing what's right.\u00a0 And, you know, there are some parents right now who are listening to this, and their kids are sneaking out, and they know that.\u00a0 Their kids are going out, and they know that.\u00a0 And yet in spite of the behavior that is unacceptable, the parents don't know what to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it's in those moments that if you don't know what to do, you need to get together with some other parents and decide how will we step into the lives of our children and provide the kind of boundaries, the kind of guidance, the coaching, the moral development that they need, and not just let them go off on their own merry way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And we've already talked this week about how there's got to be a healthy foundation of a relationship for those boundaries to be established; and if you haven't been cultivating that relationship, you can start cultivating it, and don't be surprised if your daughter doesn't say, \"I'm not interested in cultivating it.\u00a0 In fact, I've got life wired without you.\"\u00a0 But you press in; and you keep finding ways to build that relationship because, as our friend Josh McDowell has said, rules without relationship do equal rebellion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But, Bob, the overwhelming benefit of doing this on a regular basis with your daughter's dates, I think, reaps enormous rewards not only in her life but also in the life of a young man.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a young man by the name of Mark who dated our daughter, Rebecca.\u00a0 I sat down with Mark and did my interview, and we maintained a relationship.\u00a0 He dated Rebecca when she was in her 20s.\u00a0 A fine young man, just a bright young man, who is in full-time Christian ministry; and he wasn't the one for Rebecca.\u00a0 He wrote me an e-mail that I'd like to ask you to read.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I've got a copy of it right here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just talking about the benefits of\u2014and his perspective, looking back on\u2014being interviewed by me as the father of a young lady that he wanted to date.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wrote and said, \"Out of the few serious relationships I've been in, one stands out among the rest in health and purity.\u00a0 I don't think it was an accident that this relationship involved a father who was willing to stand as a guardian for his daughter's purity.\u00a0 In order to enter into a committed relationship with his daughter, I had to go through an interview where he laid out the expectations he had for me if I was to pursue her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThis helped me a great deal.\u00a0 It imprinted a permanent reminder in my mind that there was a man who cared for this young lady vastly beyond what I did.\u00a0 Not that my feelings weren't strong and real, but the time and love he had already invested was unparalleled.\u00a0 So whenever I found myself in a tempting spot, a vivid picture of this man, who cared more for her than I did, stood as a protective barrier between me and any inappropriate actions.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He said, \"Seeing that this was a man of initiative, it helped me realize that if anything inappropriate did happen, he would most likely find out about it.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That's correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\"Dating a girl for almost a year and not kissing her was unheard of in my experience.\u00a0 But I would attribute a great deal of that success to the involvement of her father.\u00a0 It not only helped me, but also made it obvious to the girl how much her dad cared for her.\u00a0 You could sense such an admiration and respect she had for her father since she was willing to offer his strength on her behalf.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cAfter having experienced the difference this made in how I treated the girl and the relationship, if I ever have a daughter and some young buck comes knocking on the door, I will not hesitate to sit down eyeball-to-eyeball with him and let him know what I expect of him\u2014what will happen to him if my expectations are not respected.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Preach it; that's right, son.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Removing the father's role as protector of his daughter and her purity is like removing the castle wall that guards a princess.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whoa!\u00a0 When he wrote that to me, I thought, \u201cYou know I want the men who pick up this book to read what he had to say because just the benefit in his life\u2014think about it\u2014I mean, he caught the picture of what it means to protect a young woman and to treat her with the dignity that God called him to.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and, in fact, your sons caught the vision for the same thing.\u00a0 In a few minutes I want our listeners to hear how our team re-created a moment from \u201cRainey family history\u201d that involved your sons, and one of your daughters, and you, as well.\u00a0 First, let me let our listeners know how they can get a copy of your book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's called <em>Interviewing Your Daughter's Date:<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>Eight Steps to No Regrets<\/em>.\u00a0 We've got it in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center.\u00a0\u00a0 We're hoping that you'll not only call to get a copy for yourself but maybe one for the guys in your small group, or for other dads you know at church, dads who have got kids in the youth group, dads who are involved with their kids at your school.\u00a0 We're hoping that you'll be a part of the distribution network for this book and help us hand it out because we'd love to see dads return to what we think is a pretty important role for them to play in protecting their daughters.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com., for more information on how to order copies of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em>.\u00a0 We also have an audio book available.\u00a0 This week, we are making the audio book available to those of you who can help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are online on FamilyLifeToday.com, you can either order the book or make an online donation.\u00a0 If you are making an online donation, type the word, \u201cDATE,\u201d in the key code box.\u00a0 We will know to send you a copy of the audio book for <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em>, or call us toll-free 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 Ask how you can get a copy of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em> or make a donation and request a copy of the audio book.\u00a0 Let me just say, \u201cWe are grateful for those of you who are able to support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\u00a0 Your support is greatly appreciated.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com and our toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What we preach, and teach, and talk about, and many times it's some of those stories that we tell at the dinner table, like E.V. Hill's story.\u00a0 I shared that story at the dinner table one night, but I had no idea how that story would turn around and boomerang on me.\u00a0 But my boys pulled a fast one on me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And rather than having you tell the story, we had our team re-create it for our listeners.\u00a0 This actually happened at the Rainey house a number of years ago, as you were arriving to take one of your daughters on a date on a particular evening, and you were met at the door by your sons.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[audio tape\u2014 knocking]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, somebody needs to open the door.\u00a0 The movie starts in 20 minutes.\u00a0 Hello?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, may we help you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I'm here for a date with my girls.\u00a0 Are they ready?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute, sir.\u00a0 We have a few questions for you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 3:<\/strong>\u00a0 More than a few.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong>\u00a0 A lot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Rebecca!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, we want to know if you're going to treat these girls like ladies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Are you going to be a gentleman?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, absolutely; I'm their dad, and I'm taking them on a great date that will be a lot of fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, yeah?\u00a0 Well, not so fast.\u00a0 We need you to promise that you'll bring Rebecca home by her bedtime.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which is 8:30.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, it's 9 if we're on a date with Dad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yep, 8:30 sounds reasonable to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, you know, God did a wonderful thing when he made women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 We are just watching out for their best interests here, sir.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Will you be driving at the speed limit?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Opening doors for them?\u00a0 Do you promise to treat them with courtesy and respect?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 I'll make sure they return safe, happy, entertained, and well-fed.\u00a0 And on the way back, I'll tell them all those old jokes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, that settles it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 And how!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 No sister of ours is going out with someone like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[giggling]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[tape ends]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, I don't think your boys are going to need to read your book.\u00a0 I think they got the vision for this a long time ago.\u00a0 We're going to have to wrap things up for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 I want to thank Rob Jorgenson for help with those special moments from \u201cRainey family history.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend; and I hope you can join us back on Monday when singer\/song writer, Dennis Jernigan, is going to be here.\u00a0 We are going to talk about what we can do to reach out and minister with compassion, and kindness, and the love of Christ to those who are hurting, especially those who are struggling with homosexuality.\u00a0 I hope you can tune in for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey.\u00a0 I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts. 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day, there was this kind of, oh, you have to meet the parents before you take the daughter out.\u00a0 I remember being taught you don't just sit at the curb and honk.\u00a0 You go up to the house, and you meet the mom and you meet the dad, and that was about all there was to it.\u00a0 I figure you just have to make a good impression for about 90 seconds, and then you're out of there, you know?\u00a0 So that was kind of the bare threshold minimum.\u00a0 But how many dads \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So you cleared the hurdle, huh?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, I mean, most of us can get by for 90 seconds, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But how many dads do you think out of 100 -- if 10 percent are doing something, how many out of 100 are having the kind of heart-to-heart that you're talking about, a 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place.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd, it was interesting, as Benjamin began to date, there was only one man that I knew of who ever asked to talk to Ben before he let his daughter go out with him.\u00a0 I thought, \"That's really too bad.\u00a0 That's a real loss for both Ben and, for that matter; Samuel didn't have any dads interviewing him, either.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut neither of my sons dated that much.\u00a0 They didn't really have the opportunity during high school to have a lot of dates, but I wish they'd just had the opportunity to have been interviewed once.\u00a0 I think it would have been helpful for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We had our team re-create a story that apparently was taken from a true story.\u00a0 You tell it in your book<em>, Interviewing Your Daughter's Date<\/em>, about E.V. Hill, a pastor from Los Angeles\u2014African-American pastor, who checked out the young men his daughter was going out with.\u00a0 One night one of these young men showed up to take his daughter out; and Dr. Hill started his inspection, and \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just based upon what he saw.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wasn't.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wasn't impressed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It wasn't a real pretty sight and, especially, by the time he'd asked him a few questions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0 Listen to this.\u00a0 This is good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 Daddy, where is my date?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Him?\u00a0 Look, honey, no daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 What are you talking about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 I said, \u201cNo daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 But, Daddy, you can't just send him away like that.\u00a0 I mean, what will I say to him the next time I see him?\u00a0 What are they going to say about me at school?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute here.\u00a0 Let me take a better look at you.\u00a0 Are you sure you're my daughter?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 What?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Come here a second.\u00a0 Baby, Baby, where are you at?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 In the kitchen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Baby, how long have we been married?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thirty years this June.\u00a0 Now get out of my way; I'm cooking your dinner, Dr. Hill.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute now.\u00a0 Help me think this thing out.\u00a0 Are you sure there was never anybody else but me?\u00a0 You're absolutely positive that when this girl was conceived, it was you and me -- nobody else?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, baby, just you and me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not the milkman, not the postman\u2014just me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mrs. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mm-hm, you're the only man for me, Dr. Hill.\u00a0 She's yours.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good, that settles it.\u00a0 Baby?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Daughter:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, Daddy?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dr. Hill:<\/strong>\u00a0 No daughter of mine is going out with a thing like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have the sense that Dr. Hill may have turned down a few more of his daughter's prospects than you did in your day, right?\u00a0 He went with his gut, didn't he?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He did, Bob, in fact, just the story is kind of legendary; but it gives encouragement and courage to men.\u00a0 You can do this.\u00a0 You can protect your daughter.\u00a0 You're the dad.\u00a0 You know, she's not in charge of this thing.\u00a0 I mean, yeah, she's a young person who is growing into maturity; but if she's about to make a mistake, or if she's about to go into a situation that is not desirable or, worse yet, dangerous.\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 Be the dad.\u00a0 Call it the way you see it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know what was always frightening to me, though, as a dad was I was concerned when my daughter would react or be emotional or say, \"Oh, Dad, no, no.\"\u00a0 Always concerned that I was somehow going to harden her heart; that I was going to turn her against me; that she'd go around my back and do it, anyway.\u00a0 I'd be stirring up rebellion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was interesting, Bob, we had at least one situation where one of our daughters was out of the home\u2014moved off on her own and just wasn't doing real well\u2014was struggling a bit spiritually and with us.\u00a0 Yet in the midst of that struggle and, you might say, rebellion, guess who shows up at our house with a young man for me to interview?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's just interesting in our children's hearts, I think they want to be protected, and the very thing they would push you out of their lives and keep you from doing is the thing they know, in their heart of hearts, that they need the most.\u00a0 The problem is they don't have the maturity to see beyond this to say, \"I need Daddy to help me in this, because I'm not sure about this guy.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you interview a young man, you are really building his character.\u00a0 You are building relationship with him\u2014you are talking man-to-man about real-life stuff about a man\u2019s passions, about the beauty of a woman, and how God created the attraction of male to female, and how He protects sex until marriage.\u00a0 You are talking to him around a real-life situation\u2014going out with your daughter in a healthy way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You are really being a \u201cfather\u201d to him\u2014not that you are taking the place of his father\u2014but you are being kind of the neighborhood father who says, \u201cSon, come here.\u00a0 Let me talk to you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You are modeling what real manhood looks like.\u00a0 We all know that if we are going to produce character in the next generation of young men, they all need to see different kinds of men giving leadership under different circumstances in different situations.\u00a0 I promise you, you can\u2019t sit in an interview like 30 to 40 young men did with me, without thinking through a lot of issues and going, \u201cMan, this is tough stuff.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is also the issue of valuing your daughter as a woman and demonstrating to a young man that, as a parent, you really do place a high premium on the value of your daughter and her protection.\u00a0 You're willing to do the most uncomfortable thing you could almost imagine to be able to protect her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, I told the young men, Bob, when I interviewed them, I'd say, \"You know, you may be nervous.\u00a0 I want you to know I'm nervous, too, but I'm doing the thing that I know I need to do because I love my daughter.\u00a0 I want to protect her, and I want to create a sense of accountability with you around her purity.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, one of my favorite questions I'd ask these young men when I talked with them is I'd say, \"Let's say that another young lady someday, somewhere is growing up right now and tonight she's going out on a date.\u00a0 Would you prefer that her father be interviewing the young man who is taking out your future wife on a date?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd they would always say, \"Oh, yeah.\"\u00a0 And I'd say, \"Well, you know, my daughter is probably somebody else's wife, might be your wife someday, but she's likely somebody else's wife.\u00a0 I'm calling on you to treat her with the same dignity you would like another young man to treat your future wife, if he was taking her on a date tonight.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey seemed to get that picture and respond to that at that point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You had a sense, when these guys came over, you could kind of tell where they were spiritually and what their level of maturity was.\u00a0 Yet, by the time they left, wherever it was when they started, they'd grown up a little bit in that half hour, don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, some of them had some good church-talk\u2014God-talk\u2014saying all the right things.\u00a0 But I think by the time you go through these eight points, which are so gritty and get to the core of the issues young people are facing today, I think some of the veneer melts.\u00a0 You're talking about passion.\u00a0 You're talking about, \u201cKeeping your lips and your hands off my daughter;\u201d and you're not blinking as a dad, as you look him in the eye.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one of the most profound moments of the entire interview is the last question I ask these men.\u00a0 I ask them, as a young man, I say, \"Someday God may give you the privilege of getting married.\u00a0 You may become a daddy, and you may have a daughter.\u00a0 I want to ask you, \u201cIf God does give you the unspeakable privilege of being a dad,\u201d I want to ask you, \u201cwill you make a commitment to me right now that if she wants to go out on a date that you will interview the young man who wants to take her out?\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said, \"The reason why I can challenge you to do that is because you have now been trained,\" and they always used to kind of grin at that point and kind of bashfully look at me.\u00a0 But every one of them sat up a little straighter in their chair, and you could almost sense that you were calling something out of them, as young men, to step up to real manhood, step into the responsibility and say, \"You know what?\u00a0 I could do that.\u00a0 I've seen this done.\u00a0 I'll protect my daughter when I become a dad.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>As far as you know, did you interview all of the young men who took your daughters out during high school?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, Bob, I have it from good sources that I didn't.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Some of our kids went \"out.\"\u00a0 Now, for those of you who do not yet have teenagers and don\u2019t understand the language and the terminology of today\u2019s teens\u2014when you're going out with someone, it's that you are going steady.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, that's the whole \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're going out with them \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You guys are a couple; you guys are an item.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're an item; and I found out through the grapevine, in many cases, that our kids would hotwire this thing around the interview and find a way to establish a relationship with \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was a special boy, and you hadn't met the guy yet?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 And that usually brought about a different kind of interview, not with the young man but with the daughter and talking with her about trust and about keeping things above-board and about doing what's right.\u00a0 And, you know, there are some parents right now who are listening to this, and their kids are sneaking out, and they know that.\u00a0 Their kids are going out, and they know that.\u00a0 And yet in spite of the behavior that is unacceptable, the parents don't know what to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd it's in those moments that if you don't know what to do, you need to get together with some other parents and decide how will we step into the lives of our children and provide the kind of boundaries, the kind of guidance, the coaching, the moral development that they need, and not just let them go off on their own merry way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And we've already talked this week about how there's got to be a healthy foundation of a relationship for those boundaries to be established; and if you haven't been cultivating that relationship, you can start cultivating it, and don't be surprised if your daughter doesn't say, \"I'm not interested in cultivating it.\u00a0 In fact, I've got life wired without you.\"\u00a0 But you press in; and you keep finding ways to build that relationship because, as our friend Josh McDowell has said, rules without relationship do equal rebellion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But, Bob, the overwhelming benefit of doing this on a regular basis with your daughter's dates, I think, reaps enormous rewards not only in her life but also in the life of a young man.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a young man by the name of Mark who dated our daughter, Rebecca.\u00a0 I sat down with Mark and did my interview, and we maintained a relationship.\u00a0 He dated Rebecca when she was in her 20s.\u00a0 A fine young man, just a bright young man, who is in full-time Christian ministry; and he wasn't the one for Rebecca.\u00a0 He wrote me an e-mail that I'd like to ask you to read.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I've got a copy of it right here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just talking about the benefits of\u2014and his perspective, looking back on\u2014being interviewed by me as the father of a young lady that he wanted to date.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He wrote and said, \"Out of the few serious relationships I've been in, one stands out among the rest in health and purity.\u00a0 I don't think it was an accident that this relationship involved a father who was willing to stand as a guardian for his daughter's purity.\u00a0 In order to enter into a committed relationship with his daughter, I had to go through an interview where he laid out the expectations he had for me if I was to pursue her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThis helped me a great deal.\u00a0 It imprinted a permanent reminder in my mind that there was a man who cared for this young lady vastly beyond what I did.\u00a0 Not that my feelings weren't strong and real, but the time and love he had already invested was unparalleled.\u00a0 So whenever I found myself in a tempting spot, a vivid picture of this man, who cared more for her than I did, stood as a protective barrier between me and any inappropriate actions.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He said, \"Seeing that this was a man of initiative, it helped me realize that if anything inappropriate did happen, he would most likely find out about it.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That's correct.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\"Dating a girl for almost a year and not kissing her was unheard of in my experience.\u00a0 But I would attribute a great deal of that success to the involvement of her father.\u00a0 It not only helped me, but also made it obvious to the girl how much her dad cared for her.\u00a0 You could sense such an admiration and respect she had for her father since she was willing to offer his strength on her behalf.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cAfter having experienced the difference this made in how I treated the girl and the relationship, if I ever have a daughter and some young buck comes knocking on the door, I will not hesitate to sit down eyeball-to-eyeball with him and let him know what I expect of him\u2014what will happen to him if my expectations are not respected.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Preach it; that's right, son.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Removing the father's role as protector of his daughter and her purity is like removing the castle wall that guards a princess.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whoa!\u00a0 When he wrote that to me, I thought, \u201cYou know I want the men who pick up this book to read what he had to say because just the benefit in his life\u2014think about it\u2014I mean, he caught the picture of what it means to protect a young woman and to treat her with the dignity that God called him to.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and, in fact, your sons caught the vision for the same thing.\u00a0 In a few minutes I want our listeners to hear how our team re-created a moment from \u201cRainey family history\u201d that involved your sons, and one of your daughters, and you, as well.\u00a0 First, let me let our listeners know how they can get a copy of your book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt's called <em>Interviewing Your Daughter's Date:<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>Eight Steps to No Regrets<\/em>.\u00a0 We've got it in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center.\u00a0\u00a0 We're hoping that you'll not only call to get a copy for yourself but maybe one for the guys in your small group, or for other dads you know at church, dads who have got kids in the youth group, dads who are involved with their kids at your school.\u00a0 We're hoping that you'll be a part of the distribution network for this book and help us hand it out because we'd love to see dads return to what we think is a pretty important role for them to play in protecting their daughters.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com., for more information on how to order copies of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em>.\u00a0 We also have an audio book available.\u00a0 This week, we are making the audio book available to those of you who can help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are online on FamilyLifeToday.com, you can either order the book or make an online donation.\u00a0 If you are making an online donation, type the word, \u201cDATE,\u201d in the key code box.\u00a0 We will know to send you a copy of the audio book for <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em>, or call us toll-free 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 Ask how you can get a copy of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date<\/em> or make a donation and request a copy of the audio book.\u00a0 Let me just say, \u201cWe are grateful for those of you who are able to support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> with a donation.\u00a0 Your support is greatly appreciated.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com and our toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What we preach, and teach, and talk about, and many times it's some of those stories that we tell at the dinner table, like E.V. Hill's story.\u00a0 I shared that story at the dinner table one night, but I had no idea how that story would turn around and boomerang on me.\u00a0 But my boys pulled a fast one on me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And rather than having you tell the story, we had our team re-create it for our listeners.\u00a0 This actually happened at the Rainey house a number of years ago, as you were arriving to take one of your daughters on a date on a particular evening, and you were met at the door by your sons.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[audio tape\u2014 knocking]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, somebody needs to open the door.\u00a0 The movie starts in 20 minutes.\u00a0 Hello?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, may we help you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I'm here for a date with my girls.\u00a0 Are they ready?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just a minute, sir.\u00a0 We have a few questions for you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 3:<\/strong>\u00a0 More than a few.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong>\u00a0 A lot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Rebecca!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, really?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, we want to know if you're going to treat these girls like ladies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Are you going to be a gentleman?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, absolutely; I'm their dad, and I'm taking them on a great date that will be a lot of fun.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, yeah?\u00a0 Well, not so fast.\u00a0 We need you to promise that you'll bring Rebecca home by her bedtime.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which is 8:30.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, it's 9 if we're on a date with Dad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yep, 8:30 sounds reasonable to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, you know, God did a wonderful thing when he made women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 We are just watching out for their best interests here, sir.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Will you be driving at the speed limit?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Opening doors for them?\u00a0 Do you promise to treat them with courtesy and respect?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 I'll make sure they return safe, happy, entertained, and well-fed.\u00a0 And on the way back, I'll tell them all those old jokes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, that settles it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 And how!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 No sister of ours is going out with someone like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[giggling]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[tape ends]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, I don't think your boys are going to need to read your book.\u00a0 I think they got the vision for this a long time ago.\u00a0 We're going to have to wrap things up for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 I want to thank Rob Jorgenson for help with those special moments from \u201cRainey family history.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI hope you have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend; and I hope you can join us back on Monday when singer\/song writer, Dennis Jernigan, is going to be here.\u00a0 We are going to talk about what we can do to reach out and minister with compassion, and kindness, and the love of Christ to those who are hurting, especially those who are struggling with homosexuality.\u00a0 I hope you can tune in for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey.\u00a0 I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts. 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