I'd like to share with you a brief version of something that I've been writing about, thinking about. It's really kind of a manifesto. It's a vision for daughters. A church should really be clear on this matter of womanhood and how daughters ought to conceive of their lives and how the leaders of the church and the fathers are conceiving it and so I've been drafting what really are the structure of my prayers for our church I really do pray that fathers and daughters have a sense of these things. I think that because of the forces of the world that are always at work to not only discourage, but also to confuse daughters and fathers, and also how easy it is to lose the formula.

You're only one generation away from losing womanhood in any church or any society. And our church is just as vulnerable as any church. And so I'd just like to give you the various categories of this sort of manifesto. And I've organized this under various words. The first word is gospel.

Daughters who know and embrace the gospel of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, not trusting in their works but solely on the shed blood of Jesus Christ and living faithfully and fruitfully in the world. Second, conformity. Daughters who are not conformed to this world and walking in the ways of the world for daughters, but rather transformed by the renewing of their minds to the ways of God for womanhood and willing to endure the slanders of the world. Number three, doctrine. Daughters who understand the doctrine of womanhood and fathers and mothers who are teaching the details of its various elements for the glory of God in womanhood.

Next, keepers at home. Daughters who are poised to be keepers at home, and fathers and mothers who demonstrate godly patterns and facilitate biblical home life. Next, teaching. Daughters who are preparing themselves to be teachers, ordering their time for the pursuit of sound doctrine and other matters that equip them to teach the rising generation and to become an older woman who is qualified to teach the younger women. Next.

Helpers. Daughters who are preparing to be helpers and fathers and mothers who are carefully deploying their energies. This, whether or not they are married, they are refining their serving of their families, the body of Christ, and the community. Next, dominion. Daughters taking dominion, spending their years of their youth in meaningful labors, being fellow laborers in the kingdom of God and fathers and mothers who have a vision for the Dominion Mandate in their realm.

Next, boldness. Daughters who are not cowering in fear and timidity but controlled by God and rather confidently taking their place in the world, entering into prayer boldly, boldly declaring the truth of God, bold in obedience, boldness in serving God, and boldness in living for God in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation. Next, authority. Daughters who understand the proper use of authority in the home, in the church, and in the world, knowing the details of the authority a woman has in her home and the responsibility she has in the church and her role in industry and politics. Next, modesty.

Daughters who understand the importance of adorning the doctrine of femininity, the covering of shame, the shame face ofness and purity that clothing displays, and recognize who they are when they stand in front of the mirror and who they are trying to glorify and impress. Next, glorification. Daughters who act and dress and talk and live for the glory of God alone, not seeking to glorify themselves but God alone. And then finally, beauty. Daughters who have an awareness of true beauty, grasping how salvation, the work of the Holy Spirit, and holiness beautifies and the dangers of inordinate focus on outward appearance.

These are the things I'm praying for for the daughters of our church, and it's something I'm sure I'll be working on it I'd like to get Dan and Jason and Mike's refinement and improvement of it but just these are the things I'm praying for our church here's what I'm convinced of and here's what I'm concerned about that it's so easy to lose the basic pillars of biblical womanhood and fathers and daughters are so pivotal for the preserving of those things and I charge you in the presence of God preserve sound doctrine with your daughters.