Brought to you by America’s Christian Credit Union. >> New this afternoon, we’re learning the founder of Focus on the Family. Dr. James Dobson has died at the age of 89. He started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents back in 1977. Then later, he entered politics in the 80s, pushing to bring religious conservatives into the political mainstream.
He also served on a board of evangelical leaders advising President Trump. That was in 2016. >> The family is like the red blood cell in the body. It carries a globule of oxygen and the family carries the oxygen to the body uh having to do with the gospel. And so that is uh what I’m I’m trying to do is to use the family, strengthen the family, support the family, and therefore pass on the gospel of Jesus Christ to others.
James Dobson died yesterday. I remember when my son held up his phone and showed me the breaking news, and the feelings are are profound. I I met with James Dobson several times uh as he was looking with his selection committee for his successor because uh his health had indicated that perhaps his time was not long and I was blown away that I had a chance to meet with him that he even knew who I who I was because he’s somebody that I grew up with as a young believer and he has shaped family and marriage for millions and millions of people. He built the
organization called Focus on the Family with over a thousand employees, his radio program, his books. He’s helped parents raise generations of children and walk through the struggles of marriage and parenting. He is a hero of the faith and he just entered into the moment that he has been looking forward to for 70 or 80 years.
I felt the same way with John MacArthur. So many sermons, so many books, all speaking to that moment when they see Jesus face to face. He’s no longer walking by faith. He’s walking by sight, which is the opposite of what we’ve what we’re doing now. We’re walking by faith, not by sight. We can’t see the Lord until we see him uh face to face.
