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For listeners who don\u2019t know, he was the Founder and President of Chick-fil-A, but more important than that, he was first and foremost a dad, wasn\u2019t he?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He was a dad and he was proud of his daughter and his boys and his grandchildren. He\u2019d always show me pictures of them when he took me back in his office. He was just full of all kinds of common sense. One thing we scooted by just a little bit earlier, Bob, is that Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll not tell you who, but I helped a very famous business man who runs a business that is open on Sunday, and he wanted to meet Truett Cathy. As we were flying back after he had met Truett, he goes, \u201cHow can I do that? I just don\u2019t know if I can do that or not.\u201d And I thought Truett Cathy never asked the question if he could. He just did. And he did it from the start. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was one of the reasons why we encouraged our kids to get a job at Chick-fil-A, and five of the six, did because they are closed on Sunday. We wanted our kids with us on the Sabbath. We didn\u2019t want them working. And we wanted them to learn not only a strong work ethic but how to truly serve the needs of customers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I mentioned earlier that when we were getting ready to shoot the video for the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series for men we were thinking of who we could show as a portrait of a patriarch and Truett Cathy was one of the names that came to mind. So I went down to Atlanta and I sat down with his two sons, with Dan and with Bubba, and I asked the two of them to share some reflections on what it was like growing up with Truett Cathy as their father.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe included that in the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series and if listeners would like to see the interview they can go to FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have the video posted on our website.\u00a0 But we thought you ought to listen to what they shared during that interview. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re going to get a chuckle out of this story that is told as Bob interviews Dan and Bubba, because Truett was a man who believed in the discipline of his sons.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded message]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dan:<\/strong>\u00a0 Growing up with my dad was a lot of work. He got us very engaged at an early age and it really was a place that built a lot of our self esteem. We knew we were doing something that no other kid got to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bubba:<\/strong>\u00a0 He was always working so when he would get home from the restaurant business he would go straight outside to put up barbed wire, to hoe the garden, do bush hogging behind the tractor, and we would be usually trailing behind him, finding out--really we were learning a lesson about working hard.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dan:<\/strong>\u00a0 I always that felt he was very engaged as a dad. Tremendous role model for me and I often learn things from him that are parenting wise.\u00a0 For instance when Bubba and I would fight in the back of the car oftentimes, I remember him pulling off the side of the interstate and making us run to the next exit.\u00a0 And it soon got to the point where all he had to do when Bubba and I were fighting was just tap the breaks and there would be total peace. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bubba:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mom was very much a part of dad\u2019s life. They\u2019ve been married 63 years and she\u2019s helped him in the store. She\u2019s helped him sample Chick-fil-A across the country.\u00a0 So Truett Cathy and work ethic was very strong, but he did have a day that he took off.\u00a0 We knew that meant more to him than the business.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dan:<\/strong>\u00a0 He learned the concept of the Sabbath as it related to the need to have rest and that rest and that reflection--he could take a nap in just a flash of a moment. If you\u2019ll just be consistent and acknowledge God in all your ways, even while you\u2019re selling chicken, then He\u2019ll direct your paths.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe\u2019s been a Sunday school teacher, as you know, for well over 60 years teaching young 13- and 14-year-olds. Often he would have these boys who had made foolish choices and decisions would sit around this circular table in our kitchen. They were teenagers and here I am six, seven, eight, and nine years old, hearing these terrible stories about foolish choices and decisions.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe never talked about trying to change the world and grandiose times or grandiose words, ideas and so forth. He built very personal and deep meaningful relationships with single individuals.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are a lot of employees when I started as a teenager having regular hours at our Dwarf House, that some of the employees would pull me to the side back in the kitchen and say, \u201cLet me tell you what your dad did for me.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI knew they had expressed thanks to him for money he may have extended to them or help with school books or tuition or maybe a tuxedo for a prom and so forth. 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I\u2019ve been very blessed to have a father like that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dan:<\/strong>\u00a0 While he\u2019s been a great business leader, he\u2019s been a great Sunday school teacher, I think his greatest legacy may be that he was an incredible husband, number one, and he was a tremendous father because the way he lived his life, a life of integrity--it indelibly impacted and infected my heart and my brother\u2019s and my sister, Trudy\u2019s. We hope to be an extension of his life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and they have become just that, an extension of their father\u2019s life as they now run the business but also as they raise their own kids and as they give back to their community.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They are. All three of them and their families are on mission. They are about the right stuff and if \u2026mmm\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m a bit emotional because I knew Truett and I know what kind of family he left, but if we had more business guys like him, more business women, who left legacies of value like this and who cared about and loved people all the way to the end; I\u2019m going to tell you something, Bob, this would be a different country to live in right now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe need the next generation of Truett Cathys who, as one friend of mine said, who knows a little bit about business, who may have just built the best business in America.\u00a0 Now not the biggest, but all things considered when you think about the value of a human being and loving people and providing a great product--it very well could be the best company in America.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I know that I usually get nuggets or strips when I go in but I\u2019m going to get a chicken sandwich. I may even let them keep the pickles on the chicken sandwich.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI usually have them take them off.\u00a0 But in honor of Truett I may have them keep the pickles on my sandwich.\u00a0 And I hope our listeners, if you do go get a chicken sandwich this week, just say, \u201cThis one\u2019s for Truett,\u201d when you order the chicken sandwich.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think that would be a good idea this week.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Once again, if our listeners are interested in hearing the interview that we did with Lysa TerKeurst on her book called <em>The Best Yet,<\/em> you can find that online at FamilyLifeToday.com, and Lysa will be back with us again tomorrow. 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