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Key Bible Verse: Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example Philippians 3:17. Bonus Reading: Phil. 3:17-4:1

Years ago Howard Hendricks, one of my Dallas Seminary professors, told us in class about twin boys, former students, who stopped by his office after class one day to talk. During the course of the conversation, Hendricks asked them about their father, a prominent Christian leader, "Guys, what do you remember most about your dad as you were growing up?"

After a short pause, one of the young men said, "I'll never forget the times he would spend wrestling with us on the floor. Even as teenagers, he would clear out the den furniture and roll around the floor laughing with us."

The other son reflected, "What I remember most about my dad was, when we were in high school, I threw a paper route and I'd have to get up early in the morning to deliver the paper. Each morning, I'd walk past my dad's bedroom door and it would be cracked open. I'd see him in there down on his knees and I knew he was praying for us. That's what I remember most about my dad."

Then "Prof" Hendricks delivered the punch. He leaned across the podium, peered over the top of his glasses, and asked the penetrating question, "By the way, what will your kids remember you for?"

—Steven Lawson in The Legacy

My Response: Here's how I'd answer Prof Hendricks's question: ____

Thought to Apply: Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.—James Baldwin (author)

Adapted from The Legacy (Multnomah, 1998) by permission.

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