Mimicking Dad's Walk
In this part of the sermon: The sermon continues to build the biblical basis with Ephesians 5:1, 'Be therefore imitators of God as beloved children,' and Colossians 3:9-10, which speaks of putting on the…
Martin shares a personal anecdote from his boyhood about practicing to mimic his father's distinctive walk, illustrating the natural desire of a son to be like his dad, which Paul then fastens upon in the spiritual realm for imitating God.
Because you are to be imitators of God as beloved children. I can remember as a boy back in Stamford, Connecticut, when my dad would come home, we were six, seven years during the war when we had no car, and my dad would walk down Soundview Avenue in Stamford, Connecticut, there was a place where the street had a bend in it, and once he came around that bend you could see him about 200 yards away, and my dad had a funny movement where when he walked his right leg kind of swung out a little bit. As a son, you know what I used to practice? How am I going to mimic my dad? And so I'd practice swin...
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