It's interesting when we get to Genesis 18, the Lord speaks of Abraham in compliments and literally says it's almost like a qualification, like why God would be willing to share with Abraham what he was going to do, one of the things that he mentioned was that surely he would teach these things to his children, he would teach the truths of God to his children. So we know that Abraham led his children to the ward, we know that Abraham communed with God regularly, and we know that Abraham was a great leader. When he faced a great problem with his nephew Lot, he exercised his wisdom and he says, you know, We're going to do this, you're going to do this, I'm going to do that, and we're going to do this." And he settles issues. That comes from a man who has led others before. He's a great leader.

Which when someone is in leadership of a home, what we fail to realize is that it is through family worship that most leadership will ever happen. If a man doesn't lead his family in worship, he will not lead his family in trouble. And it's interesting to me that when Lot is captured by the enemy and Abraham decides he's going to go to deliver him, he takes 318 men and he's apparently trained them up and already shown the art of war and he goes and he defeats an army. And it's just an amazing person, but I believe this all comes back to the fact that he had men following him, not because he was so great, but because he led his family, these men, and everyone to a great God.