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Thanks for joining us, Wednesday,\n\nMay 26<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I\u2019m Bob Lepine. You can find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. We haven\u2019t talked about this much; but back at the turn of the year, you guys went through a transition.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, we did.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>After 30-plus years of being a pastor\/founding pastor at a local church, you stepped away, handed it off to the next generation, and said, \u201cIt\u2019s in your hands,\u201d\u2014right?\u2014it\u2019s in the Lord\u2019s hands, but\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s in yours to take it from\u00a0 here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; I mean, obviously, it was a big moment for us to make that decision and hand it off. It was like throwing a pass\u2014hopefully, for a touchdown to the next leadership\u2014and stepping into full time and the future with FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019ve not made a big deal about this either; but for the last 13 years, I have been dividing my time between what happens here at FamilyLife\u2014this has been my full-time focus, and responsibility, and my job\u2014but in my spare time, I have been helping to plant, and launch, and lead a local church. We helped plant this church back in 2008; I\u2019ve been the main teaching pastor at this church since that time.\n\nAs we\u2019ve shared with our listeners this week, this is a transition week for me.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You guys will be in the driver\u2019s seat, fully engaged. You won\u2019t have to wrestle me for the steering wheel anymore, going forward. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We\u2019re not petrified at all.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Not at all.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You guys are going to do amazing! You really are. I\u2019ve loved watching and hearing how listeners are just connecting with you. The key is that the mission of FamilyLife hasn\u2019t changed at all.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s still the same mission: it\u2019s still practical biblical help and hope for marriages and families. It\u2019s still effectively developing godly marriages and families one home at a time.\n\nAll of us are replaceable parts in that mission. Now is just the time to be more actively involved in the work that our church is doing, to help strengthen it and get it ready for next-generation leadership. Anytime anybody\u2019s in Little Rock, you\u2019re welcome to come visit Redeemer Community Church, or check us out online on a Sunday if you don\u2019t have anything else going on.\n\nWe are spending time this week looking back at\u2014I\u2019ve called this: \u201c28 Lessons I\u2019ve learned in More than 28 years of Co-hosting <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u201d\u2014this started back in 1992.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So it\u2019s really been 28 years.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I\u2019m just going to say, \u201cI\u2019m crying.\u201d [Laughter] This is what happens when you have a girl in the studio.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She really is crying.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I am <em>crying<\/em>. It\u2019s like\/it is bittersweet.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; it is for all of us.\n\nWe\u2019re going to focus today on lessons that I\u2019ve learned. All of these are things that\u2014just sitting in this chair with <em>hundreds<\/em> of guests over the years, sharing insights about marriage and family\u2014I mean, every day I\u2019m walking out, going: \u201cHuh; that was good. I need to remember that,\u201d \u201cI need to apply that.\u201d But some of these things just jump out at you like those kind of big defining moments.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I bet.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of them\u2014we don\u2019t have a clip to play for this\u2014because I think this was not something somebody said but, really, something I began to learn. The more we started talking about the differences between men and women, which are real\u2014and when you talk about gender differences\/my son likes to call them \u201cgenderalities\u201d\u2014there are some things that are not universally true but they are, for the most part, true\u2014\u201cMen are like this mostly,\u201d \u201cWomen are like this mostly.\u201d That\u2019s by God\u2019s design, and it\u2019s His good design.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of the things Mary Ann and I learned, early on, in our marriage\u2014and FamilyLife played a role in this\u2014is that those differences between us: gender differences, personality differences, different perspectives\u2014those differences aren\u2019t necessarily wrong; sometimes, it\u2019s just different. Earlier, we thought, \u201cIf you think differently than me, you think wrong.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Right; we\u2019re trying to change each other.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cWell, if I thought your way was the right way, we\u2019d do it your way. [Laughter] But I think it\u2019s this way.\u201d I had to recognize Mary Ann\u2019s perspective broadens my understanding of whatever issue we\u2019re looking at. Sometimes, she will bring a perspective that I just never stopped to think about.\n\nNow, Mary Ann is quick\u2014if she was here, she would say, \u201cI know you like to say that different isn\u2019t always wrong; sometimes, it\u2019s just different,\u201d\u2014she says, \u201cSometimes it\u2019s wrong.\u201d [Laughter] She will say, \u201cSometimes, let\u2019s just acknowledge, your way of looking at it is the wrong way.\u201d [Laughter]\n\nShe\u2019s right\u2014there\u2019s a right and a wrong [sometimes]\u2014I\u2019m not trying to say this is all relative. But her perspective as a mom, when it comes to our kids, she has different wisdom, and insight, and intuition than I had as a dad. Her perspective as somebody, who is more nurturing, is different than my perspective. We\u2019ve both learned from those differences. Today, we would say we are <em>grateful<\/em> for what we used to be irritated by.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think, if couples can come to the point and say, \u201cOkay, you look at this differently; that\u2019s a plus, not a minus. That\u2019s not just annoying; no, this is something that we can benefit from if we can learn to <em>value<\/em> the difference rather than be annoyed by the difference.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, and I know that one of the things we teach at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is your spouse is not someone you compete with; they complete you.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>When you start to understand they\u2019re uniquely designed by God differently, on purpose, and together you can complete one another and reflect the image of God to the world, that\u2019s a beautiful thing; and that you <em>need<\/em> each other because you <em>lack<\/em> what the other can bring.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I remember one of the other kind of \u201cAha\u201d principles related to men and women. This was back before Emerson Eggerichs had written the book, <em>Love and Respect<\/em>\u2014big book\/big principle\u2014I don\u2019t know that I fully understood it. I think I first got this from reading Robert Lewis\u2019s book, <em>Rocking the Roles<\/em>, before we interviewed him; but then, when we had Shaunti Feldhahn on, and she had done research on this idea that men care more about respect than they do about love; women care more about love than they do about respect. I\u2019m sitting there, going, \u201cThat\u2019s so true!\u201d Here\u2019s how she said it; listen to this.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>I was really surprised on my survey when three out of four men said, if they had to make a choice\u2014which they wouldn\u2019t want to have to make\u2014but if they had to, they\u2019d actually choose to give up feeling that their wife loved them if they could just feel that she respected them, and that she believed in them, and trusted them, and admired and appreciated them. All those things are more important, it turns out, to the average man, even than feeling that his wife loves him.\n\nThat was a <em>huge<\/em> shocker to me, but it makes sense. If you\u2019re dealing with this sense of: \u201cDo I measure up?\u201d \u201cDo I know what I\u2019m doing?\u201d then you\u2019re going to be so touched by the feeling that this person respects you. I was shocked to find out that the most painful feeling for a guy is feeling inadequate, and anything that hits that\u2014you know, \u201cI think you are inadequate,\u201d\u2014for a guy, that\u2019s his version of feeling unloved.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is it different\u2014I presume it\u2019s different\u2014a woman would say three out of four times, \u201cI\u2019d rather be loved than respected\u201d?\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>Yes; it\u2019s usually flipped. Actually, the numbers are higher, usually, on the woman\u2019s side. Nobody wants either of these feelings; obviously. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Sure; right.\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>But if you had to\u2014most women are like, \u201cYou know what? I will feel inadequate, just <em>don\u2019t<\/em> make me feel unloved,\u201d\u2014that, to them, is what they would give up.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m flashing back to that conversation and thinking\/I\u2019m just nodding my head, going, \u201cThat\u2019s so true!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You know what\u2019s really crazy?\u2014is a friend of Ann\u2019s heard that broadcast on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. She bought Shaunti\u2019s book, <em>For Women Only<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It was my friend, and she sent it to me to read; because she said, \u201cThis is unbelievable.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; and all I know is I walk in the kitchen; and there it is, lying there. Ann hadn\u2019t read it yet; she said, \u201cYes, Michelle told me I should read this. She heard Shaunti, the author, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u201d I look at it; and it says <em>For Women Only<\/em>; you know, understanding the inner lives of your men.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So you go, \u201cI\u2019m reading this!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I did! [Laughter] I\u2019m not kidding; Ann hadn\u2019t even read it. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat does <em>she<\/em> [the author] know? How\/is this something that she really understands about men?\u201d I picked it up; I didn\u2019t know Shaunti at the time. I see all this research; and I mean, I devoured that book in like a day; it\u2019s pretty short. I\u2019m like, \u201cHoney, read this book! Read it now! This is <em>exactly<\/em> who I am!\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014which made me <em>not<\/em> want to read it. [Laughter] But it is true that Dave and I were really struggling at the time, and this was why we were struggling. Dave felt like I wasn\u2019t respecting him.\n\nWe\u2019ve told Shaunti\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014and I wasn\u2019t loving <em>her<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014we told Shaunti many times that this topic really put us on a new path\/a new healthy path.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, Mary Ann bought copies of this book and gave it as wedding gifts every time somebody was getting married; because when you can understand that\u2014deep inside, a man wants to know he is affirmed, and appreciated, and admired, and respected; you don\u2019t have to love us, just admire us\u2014[Laughter]\u2014for a woman, it\u2019s the opposite; she wants to be loved and know that she is cherished. Boy, that was just a major paradigm shift.\n\nNow, moving from that\u2014this was actually even before Shaunti was here\u2014we did a series, early, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> on romance with Dennis and Barbara Rainey. This was before they wrote the book, <em>Rekindling the Romance<\/em>. We were just exploring the romantic relationship between a husband and a wife. Barbara made an observation about women and romance that was, again, one of those things that stopped me; I went, \u201cOkay; I never thought about it that way.\u201d Here\u2019s what she said.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>The things that are romantic to me aren\u2019t necessarily a situation, or an act, or a thing, or a gift\u2014all of those things communicate romance\u2014it is the relationship that she has with her husband. I am married to a man who has absolutely been a savior to me because of the love and the acceptance and all that kind of stuff, and I have been attracted to him, because I\u2019m realizing what he\u2019s done for me relationally. It\u2019s not like he thought, \u201cI want to romance my wife, so I\u2019m going to go buy her flowers;\u201d\u2014\u201cA\u201d plus \u201cB\u201d equals \u201cC,\u201d\u2014\u201cand this is the reaction and response I\u2019m going to get.\u201d\n\nAlthough I think that\u2019s very romantic, and I love it when he does those kinds of things\u2014because that communicates sacrifice; it communicates he cares about me; he\u2019s willing to go out of his way; he\u2019s willing to spend money that we may or may not have in the budget for that\u2014those are all things that are very meaningful; because it speaks to a woman that she is special; she\u2019s unique; she\u2019s different from the average. I mean, it sends all kinds of messages that are very positive.\n\nBut it may not necessarily produce the desired response. In other words, if he\u2019s doing it to produce a response, he is very often going to be disappointed. That\u2019s why I go back to the relationship. To me, it\u2019s the relationship that is, ultimately, going to fuel the romance. I think women don\u2019t want to feel like they\u2019re that easy to figure out and, \u201cOh, he\u2019s got me pegged\u2014and \u2018A\u2019 plus \u2018B\u2019 equals \u2018C,\u2019\u2014and it\u2019s going to always work that way.\u201d I think she wants to be more complex, and more intriguing, and more\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014of a challenge.\n\n<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Yes! And I think she would also begin to fear that she\u2019d be taken advantage of. I don\u2019t mean taken advantage of, sexually; I mean being taken advantage of in any way\/assuming on the relationship; and therefore, there\u2019s no more motivation to continue to pursue; there\u2019s no more motivation to make the relationship unique; because, if he has it figured out, then why work at it?\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Here\u2019s what I remember about that conversation with Dennis and Barbara. I just remember thinking, \u201cIt would be so nice if\/I mean, I want to express to Mary Ann how special she is. I would like to have something, where I know, \u2018If I do this, you\u2019re going to feel the value, and the warmth, and the appreciation.\u2019\u201d Some days, she does; and some days the same thing doesn\u2019t work.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Bob, you want the formula.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s so maddening!\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Every guy does!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right!\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s like: \u201cI did this yesterday, and it produced this; why is that not happening today?\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; I\u2019m thinking, \u201cWhy is he doing it again today? [Laughter] Doesn\u2019t he know I feel different today?\u201d [Laughter] It\u2019s so different\u2014and I get it for you guys\u2014that would be so frustrating, because you guys kind of do have a formula. [Laughter] Maybe it\u2019s easier for us, as women.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>But is it true what Barbara was saying?\u2014you just want to be pursued.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We want to be pursued.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think there\u2019s a fear of being manipulated.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cOh, you\u2019re just doing the steps so that you get this.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cI know what this is all about.\u201d Yes; I mean, it was a good \u201cAha\u201d for me.\n\nWhen it came to guys\u2014understanding who I was as a man\u2014when I first read Robert Lewis\u2019s definition of manhood\u2014in fact, we\u2019ll play this; we\u2019ll play Robert explaining this, because this is so helpful to me\u2014and then I\u2019ll share a story\/a text I got from one of my daughters recently. Here\u2019s Robert Lewis talking about: \u201cWhat Is a Real Man.\u201d\n\n[Recorded Message]\n\n<strong>Robert: <\/strong>I began to dig and look at the life of Adam and look at the life of Jesus Christ. I began to press those two lives together, closer and closer; and what came out of that comparison were four distinguishing differences between the first Adam and the second.\n\nThe first component that came out was that: \u201cA real man rejects passivity\u201d; because the first Adam collapsed like a black hole into passivity and abrogated his leadership in the garden. On the other hand, the second Adam, Jesus Christ, was\u2014not only not passive\u2014He was not passive, even in His pre-incarnate state. He looked at humanity; and when the Father said, \u201cLook at this fallen world,\u201d He was up on his feet, saying, \u201cI\u2019ll go.\u201d\n\nThe second distinguishing characteristic is that: \u201cA real man accepts responsibility.\u201d You know, the first Adam rejected responsibility in three key areas: he rejected the will of God to obey, the work God wanted him to do, and the woman God wanted him to love. The second Adam did just the opposite: He accepted responsibility\u2014He said, \u201cI have come to do Thy will, O God,\u201d\u2014He came to do the work of God, even when it meant His own execution. The last thing Jesus Christ did: He loved His woman; and His woman was His bride, the Church.\n\nThird: \u201cA real man leads courageously.\u201d He gives protection; he gives direction; and he makes provision. Adam didn\u2019t make provision for Eve; he didn\u2019t give her direction when she was standing there, interacting with the serpent; and he certainly didn\u2019t protect her. Yet, you know what a real man does?\u2014He does what Jesus Christ did: He started out, giving direction. What were His opening words?\u2014\u201cFollow Me.\u201d He said, \u201cI lay down My life for the sheep,\u201d\u2014He was one who gave protection. He gave provision; He says, \u201cI have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.\u201d\n\nThe last thing that summarizes real masculinity\/this definition is: \u201cA real man expects God\u2019s greater reward.\u201d Jesus Christ said, \u201cIt was for the joy set before Me that I endured the cross.\u201d We\u2019re all looking for the reward; it\u2019s just, where is the reward? The reward, I believe, that the second Adam tells us: it\u2019s in the things of God\u2014it\u2019s in His calling\/His kingdom\u2014and when we pursue that, what we find is that life becomes sweeter and sweeter. On the other hand, the conventional manhood gets more and more bitter.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Listening back, as Robert Lewis talks about his definition of manhood, all three of my boys\u2014we could call them right now\u2014they could give you all four of those points; they know them.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So could mine.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of our daughters sent me a text recently; and she said, \u201cDad, I was on the phone with a friend of mine, talking about challenges in her marriage. I said, \u2018He needs to reject passivity and accept responsibility.\u2019 And my friend said, \u2018That\u2019s gold! Where did you hear that? Where did you learn that?\u2019\u201d She just laughed, because it\u2019s been part of the environment she grew up in.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She said, \u201cI heard it from Bob Lepine!\u201d [Laughter] There you go.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>She knows exactly where I heard it from; because for a man to understand, \u201cMy natural gravitational pull is toward passivity\/that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to default to, and I need to step out of that, and I need to step into taking responsibility,\u201d\u2014or as Dennis Rainey would say\u2014\u201cI need to step up into manhood.\u201d\n\nIn fact, the last two things related to understanding manhood really come from Dennis and his work in the book, <em>Stepping Up<\/em>. The first thing was he said most men he meets today are straddling the step between boyhood and manhood. They have one foot in boyhood\u2014they keep getting pulled back to wanting just to be a boy, which means no responsibility: \u201cJust do what you want,\u201d \u201cDo what you feel,\u201d\u2014manhood, which is where you accept responsibility. He said it\u2019s the battle that\u2019s going on every day. Here\u2019s how he said it.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I believe our churches and our ministries are full of young men, who are just like I was. They are young men, who have one foot on adolescence and one foot on manhood. They have not turned from the lust, the selfishness, the passivity, the rebellion of the teenage years to become what God called them to be.\n\nWhen I was sharing this material, a guy who runs Asher Auto Salvage\u2014his name\u2019s Pod Buoy\u2014Pod came to me and he said, \u201cTwo times this week, Dennis, I stepped up from being a teenager to being a man.\u201d He said, \u201cCan you believe it? I\u2019m 63 years old, and I\u2019m still struggling with being an adolescent.\u201d And he grinned.\n\nBut did you hear what he had to say? \u201cTwo times this week I stepped <em>away<\/em> from being a teenager\u2014from being childishness\/from being immature\u2014and I stepped up to being a man.\u201d That imagery helped him assume responsibility and become God\u2019s man for what he was doing.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s fun listening back to that and listening to Dennis talk about stepping up.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Oh, yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I have to tell you\u2014every guy can relate to that battle, day in and day out\u2014right?\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, whether you\u2019re 16 or 63.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Listening to Dennis\u2019s voice is\/he shaped my life with that content. It really helped me become the most amazing man in the\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You are the most amazing man. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014no, it really did help me become a man; because I didn\u2019t know. Dennis\u2014in many ways for me, and I\u2019m sure thousands of others\u2014was a father figure.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and for me, too. It\u2019s part of the legacy of 28 years here, doing what I\u2019ve been doing. His book, <em>Stepping Up<\/em>, the video series we produced: God used all of that in my own life to help me understand what I\u2019m supposed to be as a man.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There\u2019s a last point\u2014we won\u2019t play a clip of this\u2014but Dennis, in the book, he said you get to the manhood step\u2014he said there are five steps: there\u2019s childhood; there\u2019s boyhood; then there\u2019s adolescence; then there\u2019s manhood\u2014and most guys get to manhood and go, \u201cI\u2019m here. That\u2019s where I\u2019m supposed to be.\u201d\n\nHe said, \u201cNo, there are two steps beyond that.\u201d He gave me a vision for my life that goes beyond just stepping up and being a man. He said the next step is to be a mentor and to spread that to other men, and then the last step is to be a patriarch. He said that\u2019s a dirty word in our culture; but a patriarch, in a biblical sense, is somebody who takes responsibility for the community\/somebody, who looks and says, \u201cI am not just a man in my home; I\u2019m a man in my community. I\u2019m here to help shape what this culture is supposed to do and be,\u201d\u2014and to step into that and say\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s broader than just my wife and my kids. I don\u2019t neglect them, but to be a patriarch\u2026\u201d\n\nYou can\u2019t be a patriarch at 22; you can\u2019t be a patriarch at 42. You have to kind of grow into that, to where people turn and look to you and say, \u201cWhere should we go?\u201d And you say, \u201cI know where to go, because I\u2019ve been in the Scriptures; I know the Lord; and I\u2019ve lived enough life that I can point us in God\u2019s direction here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You are a patriarch, Bob; and you have been for 28 years on this show.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, you really are.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been a father to many, many people.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You\u2019ve led so many of us\u2014you and Dennis.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s been a long process. I don\u2019t know that we can say I\u2019ve been that for 28 years; but along the way, maybe I\u2019ve stepped into some of that.\n\nYou know what?\u2014so have so many of our listeners. The letters we\u2019ve gotten from people over the years\/the men and women, who have said, \u201cThese kinds of conversations have helped me recognize my own shortcomings, where I need to grow, what I need to aspire to, how I can step up as a husband,\u201d \u201c\u2026as a wife,\u201d \u201c\u2026as a mom,\u201d \u201c\u2026a dad.\u201d It\u2019s one of the reasons it\u2019s been such a privilege to be a part of what God has done through the work of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> over the last 28 years.\n\nI imagine some of our listeners would benefit from having these conversations we\u2019re having this week, just have them as a reference, to be able to go back and remind themselves of some of these core principles. We\u2019ve put these conversations on a flash drive that we\u2019re making available to you when you make a donation to support the ongoing work of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. The flash drive is our thank-you gift to you.\n\nBy the way, this is a critical week for us. We\u2019re hoping that many of you will make a donation this month. We\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry, who have agreed to match every donation we receive this month, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $350,000. We\u2019re not there yet. To get there, we need you to go online or to call and make a donation. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. Along with the flash drive, as a thank-you gift, we\u2019ll send you a couple of books by Aaron and Jamie Ivey\u2014a book for husbands and a book for wives about marriage\u2014the books are called <em>Complement<\/em>.\n\nIf you decide this week that you\u2019d like to join the team of people, who really provide the financial foundation for this ministry\u2014who make it possible, month in and month out, our monthly Legacy Partners\u2014when you sign on this week as a new Legacy Partner, we\u2019re going to do two things. First of all, each donation you make during the course of the next year will be matched, dollar for dollar. As long as there are funds in the matching-gift fund, your donations get doubled. And we\u2019ll send you a certificate so you and your spouse can attend an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaway. The certificate is transferrable; if you want to give it as a gift to someone, you can do that. That\u2019s for our new monthly Legacy Partners. When you join us, and agree to make a monthly donation, we\u2019ll send you that gift card for the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, along with the flash drive and the books from the Iveys.\n\nThere\u2019s a lot there; you can find out more when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com, or call 1-800-FLTODAY. I hope many of you listening today will make an investment in the ongoing ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> in what God has planned for the future. I hope you\u2019ll go to FamilyLifeToday.com and be as generous as you can be.\n\nNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to look back at some of the most significant things I learned in 26 years, co-hosting this program with Dennis Rainey. He left a tremendous mark on my life; so tomorrow, lessons from Dennis. That\u2019s what we\u2019ll focus in on. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch; got some extra help this week from Bruce Goff and our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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Day 3 of Bob Lepine's farewell week, he shares with Dave and Ann Wilson about great FamilyLife speakers who have talked about the differences between men and women.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us, Wednesday,\n\nMay 26<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I\u2019m Bob Lepine. You can find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. We haven\u2019t talked about this much; but back at the turn of the year, you guys went through a transition.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, we did.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>After 30-plus years of being a pastor\/founding pastor at a local church, you stepped away, handed it off to the next generation, and said, \u201cIt\u2019s in your hands,\u201d\u2014right?\u2014it\u2019s in the Lord\u2019s hands, but\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s in yours to take it from\u00a0 here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; I mean, obviously, it was a big moment for us to make that decision and hand it off. It was like throwing a pass\u2014hopefully, for a touchdown to the next leadership\u2014and stepping into full time and the future with FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019ve not made a big deal about this either; but for the last 13 years, I have been dividing my time between what happens here at FamilyLife\u2014this has been my full-time focus, and responsibility, and my job\u2014but in my spare time, I have been helping to plant, and launch, and lead a local church. We helped plant this church back in 2008; I\u2019ve been the main teaching pastor at this church since that time.\n\nAs we\u2019ve shared with our listeners this week, this is a transition week for me.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You guys will be in the driver\u2019s seat, fully engaged. You won\u2019t have to wrestle me for the steering wheel anymore, going forward. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We\u2019re not petrified at all.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Not at all.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You guys are going to do amazing! You really are. I\u2019ve loved watching and hearing how listeners are just connecting with you. The key is that the mission of FamilyLife hasn\u2019t changed at all.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s still the same mission: it\u2019s still practical biblical help and hope for marriages and families. It\u2019s still effectively developing godly marriages and families one home at a time.\n\nAll of us are replaceable parts in that mission. Now is just the time to be more actively involved in the work that our church is doing, to help strengthen it and get it ready for next-generation leadership. Anytime anybody\u2019s in Little Rock, you\u2019re welcome to come visit Redeemer Community Church, or check us out online on a Sunday if you don\u2019t have anything else going on.\n\nWe are spending time this week looking back at\u2014I\u2019ve called this: \u201c28 Lessons I\u2019ve learned in More than 28 years of Co-hosting <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u201d\u2014this started back in 1992.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So it\u2019s really been 28 years.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I\u2019m just going to say, \u201cI\u2019m crying.\u201d [Laughter] This is what happens when you have a girl in the studio.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She really is crying.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I am <em>crying<\/em>. It\u2019s like\/it is bittersweet.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; it is for all of us.\n\nWe\u2019re going to focus today on lessons that I\u2019ve learned. All of these are things that\u2014just sitting in this chair with <em>hundreds<\/em> of guests over the years, sharing insights about marriage and family\u2014I mean, every day I\u2019m walking out, going: \u201cHuh; that was good. I need to remember that,\u201d \u201cI need to apply that.\u201d But some of these things just jump out at you like those kind of big defining moments.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I bet.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of them\u2014we don\u2019t have a clip to play for this\u2014because I think this was not something somebody said but, really, something I began to learn. The more we started talking about the differences between men and women, which are real\u2014and when you talk about gender differences\/my son likes to call them \u201cgenderalities\u201d\u2014there are some things that are not universally true but they are, for the most part, true\u2014\u201cMen are like this mostly,\u201d \u201cWomen are like this mostly.\u201d That\u2019s by God\u2019s design, and it\u2019s His good design.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of the things Mary Ann and I learned, early on, in our marriage\u2014and FamilyLife played a role in this\u2014is that those differences between us: gender differences, personality differences, different perspectives\u2014those differences aren\u2019t necessarily wrong; sometimes, it\u2019s just different. Earlier, we thought, \u201cIf you think differently than me, you think wrong.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Right; we\u2019re trying to change each other.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cWell, if I thought your way was the right way, we\u2019d do it your way. [Laughter] But I think it\u2019s this way.\u201d I had to recognize Mary Ann\u2019s perspective broadens my understanding of whatever issue we\u2019re looking at. Sometimes, she will bring a perspective that I just never stopped to think about.\n\nNow, Mary Ann is quick\u2014if she was here, she would say, \u201cI know you like to say that different isn\u2019t always wrong; sometimes, it\u2019s just different,\u201d\u2014she says, \u201cSometimes it\u2019s wrong.\u201d [Laughter] She will say, \u201cSometimes, let\u2019s just acknowledge, your way of looking at it is the wrong way.\u201d [Laughter]\n\nShe\u2019s right\u2014there\u2019s a right and a wrong [sometimes]\u2014I\u2019m not trying to say this is all relative. But her perspective as a mom, when it comes to our kids, she has different wisdom, and insight, and intuition than I had as a dad. Her perspective as somebody, who is more nurturing, is different than my perspective. We\u2019ve both learned from those differences. Today, we would say we are <em>grateful<\/em> for what we used to be irritated by.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think, if couples can come to the point and say, \u201cOkay, you look at this differently; that\u2019s a plus, not a minus. That\u2019s not just annoying; no, this is something that we can benefit from if we can learn to <em>value<\/em> the difference rather than be annoyed by the difference.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, and I know that one of the things we teach at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is your spouse is not someone you compete with; they complete you.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>When you start to understand they\u2019re uniquely designed by God differently, on purpose, and together you can complete one another and reflect the image of God to the world, that\u2019s a beautiful thing; and that you <em>need<\/em> each other because you <em>lack<\/em> what the other can bring.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I remember one of the other kind of \u201cAha\u201d principles related to men and women. This was back before Emerson Eggerichs had written the book, <em>Love and Respect<\/em>\u2014big book\/big principle\u2014I don\u2019t know that I fully understood it. I think I first got this from reading Robert Lewis\u2019s book, <em>Rocking the Roles<\/em>, before we interviewed him; but then, when we had Shaunti Feldhahn on, and she had done research on this idea that men care more about respect than they do about love; women care more about love than they do about respect. I\u2019m sitting there, going, \u201cThat\u2019s so true!\u201d Here\u2019s how she said it; listen to this.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>I was really surprised on my survey when three out of four men said, if they had to make a choice\u2014which they wouldn\u2019t want to have to make\u2014but if they had to, they\u2019d actually choose to give up feeling that their wife loved them if they could just feel that she respected them, and that she believed in them, and trusted them, and admired and appreciated them. All those things are more important, it turns out, to the average man, even than feeling that his wife loves him.\n\nThat was a <em>huge<\/em> shocker to me, but it makes sense. If you\u2019re dealing with this sense of: \u201cDo I measure up?\u201d \u201cDo I know what I\u2019m doing?\u201d then you\u2019re going to be so touched by the feeling that this person respects you. I was shocked to find out that the most painful feeling for a guy is feeling inadequate, and anything that hits that\u2014you know, \u201cI think you are inadequate,\u201d\u2014for a guy, that\u2019s his version of feeling unloved.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is it different\u2014I presume it\u2019s different\u2014a woman would say three out of four times, \u201cI\u2019d rather be loved than respected\u201d?\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>Yes; it\u2019s usually flipped. Actually, the numbers are higher, usually, on the woman\u2019s side. Nobody wants either of these feelings; obviously. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Sure; right.\n\n<strong>Shaunti: <\/strong>But if you had to\u2014most women are like, \u201cYou know what? I will feel inadequate, just <em>don\u2019t<\/em> make me feel unloved,\u201d\u2014that, to them, is what they would give up.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m flashing back to that conversation and thinking\/I\u2019m just nodding my head, going, \u201cThat\u2019s so true!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You know what\u2019s really crazy?\u2014is a friend of Ann\u2019s heard that broadcast on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. She bought Shaunti\u2019s book, <em>For Women Only<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It was my friend, and she sent it to me to read; because she said, \u201cThis is unbelievable.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; and all I know is I walk in the kitchen; and there it is, lying there. Ann hadn\u2019t read it yet; she said, \u201cYes, Michelle told me I should read this. She heard Shaunti, the author, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u201d I look at it; and it says <em>For Women Only<\/em>; you know, understanding the inner lives of your men.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So you go, \u201cI\u2019m reading this!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I did! [Laughter] I\u2019m not kidding; Ann hadn\u2019t even read it. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat does <em>she<\/em> [the author] know? How\/is this something that she really understands about men?\u201d I picked it up; I didn\u2019t know Shaunti at the time. I see all this research; and I mean, I devoured that book in like a day; it\u2019s pretty short. I\u2019m like, \u201cHoney, read this book! Read it now! This is <em>exactly<\/em> who I am!\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014which made me <em>not<\/em> want to read it. [Laughter] But it is true that Dave and I were really struggling at the time, and this was why we were struggling. Dave felt like I wasn\u2019t respecting him.\n\nWe\u2019ve told Shaunti\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014and I wasn\u2019t loving <em>her<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014we told Shaunti many times that this topic really put us on a new path\/a new healthy path.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, Mary Ann bought copies of this book and gave it as wedding gifts every time somebody was getting married; because when you can understand that\u2014deep inside, a man wants to know he is affirmed, and appreciated, and admired, and respected; you don\u2019t have to love us, just admire us\u2014[Laughter]\u2014for a woman, it\u2019s the opposite; she wants to be loved and know that she is cherished. Boy, that was just a major paradigm shift.\n\nNow, moving from that\u2014this was actually even before Shaunti was here\u2014we did a series, early, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> on romance with Dennis and Barbara Rainey. This was before they wrote the book, <em>Rekindling the Romance<\/em>. We were just exploring the romantic relationship between a husband and a wife. Barbara made an observation about women and romance that was, again, one of those things that stopped me; I went, \u201cOkay; I never thought about it that way.\u201d Here\u2019s what she said.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>The things that are romantic to me aren\u2019t necessarily a situation, or an act, or a thing, or a gift\u2014all of those things communicate romance\u2014it is the relationship that she has with her husband. I am married to a man who has absolutely been a savior to me because of the love and the acceptance and all that kind of stuff, and I have been attracted to him, because I\u2019m realizing what he\u2019s done for me relationally. It\u2019s not like he thought, \u201cI want to romance my wife, so I\u2019m going to go buy her flowers;\u201d\u2014\u201cA\u201d plus \u201cB\u201d equals \u201cC,\u201d\u2014\u201cand this is the reaction and response I\u2019m going to get.\u201d\n\nAlthough I think that\u2019s very romantic, and I love it when he does those kinds of things\u2014because that communicates sacrifice; it communicates he cares about me; he\u2019s willing to go out of his way; he\u2019s willing to spend money that we may or may not have in the budget for that\u2014those are all things that are very meaningful; because it speaks to a woman that she is special; she\u2019s unique; she\u2019s different from the average. I mean, it sends all kinds of messages that are very positive.\n\nBut it may not necessarily produce the desired response. In other words, if he\u2019s doing it to produce a response, he is very often going to be disappointed. That\u2019s why I go back to the relationship. To me, it\u2019s the relationship that is, ultimately, going to fuel the romance. I think women don\u2019t want to feel like they\u2019re that easy to figure out and, \u201cOh, he\u2019s got me pegged\u2014and \u2018A\u2019 plus \u2018B\u2019 equals \u2018C,\u2019\u2014and it\u2019s going to always work that way.\u201d I think she wants to be more complex, and more intriguing, and more\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014of a challenge.\n\n<strong>Barbara: <\/strong>Yes! And I think she would also begin to fear that she\u2019d be taken advantage of. I don\u2019t mean taken advantage of, sexually; I mean being taken advantage of in any way\/assuming on the relationship; and therefore, there\u2019s no more motivation to continue to pursue; there\u2019s no more motivation to make the relationship unique; because, if he has it figured out, then why work at it?\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Here\u2019s what I remember about that conversation with Dennis and Barbara. I just remember thinking, \u201cIt would be so nice if\/I mean, I want to express to Mary Ann how special she is. I would like to have something, where I know, \u2018If I do this, you\u2019re going to feel the value, and the warmth, and the appreciation.\u2019\u201d Some days, she does; and some days the same thing doesn\u2019t work.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Bob, you want the formula.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s so maddening!\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Every guy does!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right!\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s like: \u201cI did this yesterday, and it produced this; why is that not happening today?\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; I\u2019m thinking, \u201cWhy is he doing it again today? [Laughter] Doesn\u2019t he know I feel different today?\u201d [Laughter] It\u2019s so different\u2014and I get it for you guys\u2014that would be so frustrating, because you guys kind of do have a formula. [Laughter] Maybe it\u2019s easier for us, as women.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>But is it true what Barbara was saying?\u2014you just want to be pursued.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We want to be pursued.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think there\u2019s a fear of being manipulated.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cOh, you\u2019re just doing the steps so that you get this.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cI know what this is all about.\u201d Yes; I mean, it was a good \u201cAha\u201d for me.\n\nWhen it came to guys\u2014understanding who I was as a man\u2014when I first read Robert Lewis\u2019s definition of manhood\u2014in fact, we\u2019ll play this; we\u2019ll play Robert explaining this, because this is so helpful to me\u2014and then I\u2019ll share a story\/a text I got from one of my daughters recently. Here\u2019s Robert Lewis talking about: \u201cWhat Is a Real Man.\u201d\n\n[Recorded Message]\n\n<strong>Robert: <\/strong>I began to dig and look at the life of Adam and look at the life of Jesus Christ. I began to press those two lives together, closer and closer; and what came out of that comparison were four distinguishing differences between the first Adam and the second.\n\nThe first component that came out was that: \u201cA real man rejects passivity\u201d; because the first Adam collapsed like a black hole into passivity and abrogated his leadership in the garden. On the other hand, the second Adam, Jesus Christ, was\u2014not only not passive\u2014He was not passive, even in His pre-incarnate state. He looked at humanity; and when the Father said, \u201cLook at this fallen world,\u201d He was up on his feet, saying, \u201cI\u2019ll go.\u201d\n\nThe second distinguishing characteristic is that: \u201cA real man accepts responsibility.\u201d You know, the first Adam rejected responsibility in three key areas: he rejected the will of God to obey, the work God wanted him to do, and the woman God wanted him to love. The second Adam did just the opposite: He accepted responsibility\u2014He said, \u201cI have come to do Thy will, O God,\u201d\u2014He came to do the work of God, even when it meant His own execution. The last thing Jesus Christ did: He loved His woman; and His woman was His bride, the Church.\n\nThird: \u201cA real man leads courageously.\u201d He gives protection; he gives direction; and he makes provision. Adam didn\u2019t make provision for Eve; he didn\u2019t give her direction when she was standing there, interacting with the serpent; and he certainly didn\u2019t protect her. Yet, you know what a real man does?\u2014He does what Jesus Christ did: He started out, giving direction. What were His opening words?\u2014\u201cFollow Me.\u201d He said, \u201cI lay down My life for the sheep,\u201d\u2014He was one who gave protection. He gave provision; He says, \u201cI have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.\u201d\n\nThe last thing that summarizes real masculinity\/this definition is: \u201cA real man expects God\u2019s greater reward.\u201d Jesus Christ said, \u201cIt was for the joy set before Me that I endured the cross.\u201d We\u2019re all looking for the reward; it\u2019s just, where is the reward? The reward, I believe, that the second Adam tells us: it\u2019s in the things of God\u2014it\u2019s in His calling\/His kingdom\u2014and when we pursue that, what we find is that life becomes sweeter and sweeter. On the other hand, the conventional manhood gets more and more bitter.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Listening back, as Robert Lewis talks about his definition of manhood, all three of my boys\u2014we could call them right now\u2014they could give you all four of those points; they know them.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So could mine.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>One of our daughters sent me a text recently; and she said, \u201cDad, I was on the phone with a friend of mine, talking about challenges in her marriage. I said, \u2018He needs to reject passivity and accept responsibility.\u2019 And my friend said, \u2018That\u2019s gold! Where did you hear that? Where did you learn that?\u2019\u201d She just laughed, because it\u2019s been part of the environment she grew up in.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She said, \u201cI heard it from Bob Lepine!\u201d [Laughter] There you go.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>She knows exactly where I heard it from; because for a man to understand, \u201cMy natural gravitational pull is toward passivity\/that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to default to, and I need to step out of that, and I need to step into taking responsibility,\u201d\u2014or as Dennis Rainey would say\u2014\u201cI need to step up into manhood.\u201d\n\nIn fact, the last two things related to understanding manhood really come from Dennis and his work in the book, <em>Stepping Up<\/em>. The first thing was he said most men he meets today are straddling the step between boyhood and manhood. They have one foot in boyhood\u2014they keep getting pulled back to wanting just to be a boy, which means no responsibility: \u201cJust do what you want,\u201d \u201cDo what you feel,\u201d\u2014manhood, which is where you accept responsibility. He said it\u2019s the battle that\u2019s going on every day. Here\u2019s how he said it.\n\n[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>Broadcast]\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I believe our churches and our ministries are full of young men, who are just like I was. They are young men, who have one foot on adolescence and one foot on manhood. They have not turned from the lust, the selfishness, the passivity, the rebellion of the teenage years to become what God called them to be.\n\nWhen I was sharing this material, a guy who runs Asher Auto Salvage\u2014his name\u2019s Pod Buoy\u2014Pod came to me and he said, \u201cTwo times this week, Dennis, I stepped up from being a teenager to being a man.\u201d He said, \u201cCan you believe it? I\u2019m 63 years old, and I\u2019m still struggling with being an adolescent.\u201d And he grinned.\n\nBut did you hear what he had to say? \u201cTwo times this week I stepped <em>away<\/em> from being a teenager\u2014from being childishness\/from being immature\u2014and I stepped up to being a man.\u201d That imagery helped him assume responsibility and become God\u2019s man for what he was doing.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s fun listening back to that and listening to Dennis talk about stepping up.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Oh, yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I have to tell you\u2014every guy can relate to that battle, day in and day out\u2014right?\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, whether you\u2019re 16 or 63.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Listening to Dennis\u2019s voice is\/he shaped my life with that content. It really helped me become the most amazing man in the\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You are the most amazing man. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014no, it really did help me become a man; because I didn\u2019t know. Dennis\u2014in many ways for me, and I\u2019m sure thousands of others\u2014was a father figure.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and for me, too. It\u2019s part of the legacy of 28 years here, doing what I\u2019ve been doing. His book, <em>Stepping Up<\/em>, the video series we produced: God used all of that in my own life to help me understand what I\u2019m supposed to be as a man.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There\u2019s a last point\u2014we won\u2019t play a clip of this\u2014but Dennis, in the book, he said you get to the manhood step\u2014he said there are five steps: there\u2019s childhood; there\u2019s boyhood; then there\u2019s adolescence; then there\u2019s manhood\u2014and most guys get to manhood and go, \u201cI\u2019m here. That\u2019s where I\u2019m supposed to be.\u201d\n\nHe said, \u201cNo, there are two steps beyond that.\u201d He gave me a vision for my life that goes beyond just stepping up and being a man. He said the next step is to be a mentor and to spread that to other men, and then the last step is to be a patriarch. He said that\u2019s a dirty word in our culture; but a patriarch, in a biblical sense, is somebody who takes responsibility for the community\/somebody, who looks and says, \u201cI am not just a man in my home; I\u2019m a man in my community. I\u2019m here to help shape what this culture is supposed to do and be,\u201d\u2014and to step into that and say\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s broader than just my wife and my kids. I don\u2019t neglect them, but to be a patriarch\u2026\u201d\n\nYou can\u2019t be a patriarch at 22; you can\u2019t be a patriarch at 42. You have to kind of grow into that, to where people turn and look to you and say, \u201cWhere should we go?\u201d And you say, \u201cI know where to go, because I\u2019ve been in the Scriptures; I know the Lord; and I\u2019ve lived enough life that I can point us in God\u2019s direction here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You are a patriarch, Bob; and you have been for 28 years on this show.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, you really are.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been a father to many, many people.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You\u2019ve led so many of us\u2014you and Dennis.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s been a long process. I don\u2019t know that we can say I\u2019ve been that for 28 years; but along the way, maybe I\u2019ve stepped into some of that.\n\nYou know what?\u2014so have so many of our listeners. The letters we\u2019ve gotten from people over the years\/the men and women, who have said, \u201cThese kinds of conversations have helped me recognize my own shortcomings, where I need to grow, what I need to aspire to, how I can step up as a husband,\u201d \u201c\u2026as a wife,\u201d \u201c\u2026as a mom,\u201d \u201c\u2026a dad.\u201d It\u2019s one of the reasons it\u2019s been such a privilege to be a part of what God has done through the work of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> over the last 28 years.\n\nI imagine some of our listeners would benefit from having these conversations we\u2019re having this week, just have them as a reference, to be able to go back and remind themselves of some of these core principles. We\u2019ve put these conversations on a flash drive that we\u2019re making available to you when you make a donation to support the ongoing work of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. The flash drive is our thank-you gift to you.\n\nBy the way, this is a critical week for us. We\u2019re hoping that many of you will make a donation this month. We\u2019ve had some friends of the ministry, who have agreed to match every donation we receive this month, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $350,000. We\u2019re not there yet. To get there, we need you to go online or to call and make a donation. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. Along with the flash drive, as a thank-you gift, we\u2019ll send you a couple of books by Aaron and Jamie Ivey\u2014a book for husbands and a book for wives about marriage\u2014the books are called <em>Complement<\/em>.\n\nIf you decide this week that you\u2019d like to join the team of people, who really provide the financial foundation for this ministry\u2014who make it possible, month in and month out, our monthly Legacy Partners\u2014when you sign on this week as a new Legacy Partner, we\u2019re going to do two things. First of all, each donation you make during the course of the next year will be matched, dollar for dollar. As long as there are funds in the matching-gift fund, your donations get doubled. And we\u2019ll send you a certificate so you and your spouse can attend an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaway. The certificate is transferrable; if you want to give it as a gift to someone, you can do that. That\u2019s for our new monthly Legacy Partners. When you join us, and agree to make a monthly donation, we\u2019ll send you that gift card for the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, along with the flash drive and the books from the Iveys.\n\nThere\u2019s a lot there; you can find out more when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com, or call 1-800-FLTODAY. I hope many of you listening today will make an investment in the ongoing ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> in what God has planned for the future. I hope you\u2019ll go to FamilyLifeToday.com and be as generous as you can be.\n\nNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to look back at some of the most significant things I learned in 26 years, co-hosting this program with Dennis Rainey. He left a tremendous mark on my life; so tomorrow, lessons from Dennis. That\u2019s what we\u2019ll focus in on. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch; got some extra help this week from Bruce Goff and our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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