dence in ministry; he wants to be the center
of everything: our marriage, our parenting,
our church and ministry, and our friendships.
Today, we are, by God’s grace, serving
radically at the OMS World Headquarters,
mobilizing new missionaries. We’re surrendering to him as we pass down the faith to
our four children (in the process to adopt
our fifth!). And we’re “all in” with regard to
our marriage relationship and serving him
radically as cohosts of the “Reset” workshops for those parents who desire to
press the reset button on family discipleship. To God be the glory.
have immediately run home to be with
Dawn. But, the Holy Spirit challenged me
with this question. “On those days when
there is no crisis, who gets the best of your
heart, your time, your passion, and your vision?” Seven years ago, the answer to that
question was ministry.
In 2008, Jesus started me on a journey
to pursue radical obedience in the area of
family discipleship and shepherding my
wife and children. It was a call to multigenerational faithfulness. It was a call to
understand the power and influence of
Deuteronomy 6, summarized in verse 2:
“that you may fear the Lord your God, you
and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command you, all the days of your
life, and that your days may be long.”
What I’ve been learning from this is
that Israel was to take this message to the
world. And his plan for them to spread that
message was through the intentional discipleship of their children.
At the end of 2008, with the blessing
and faithful prayers of our coworkers in
Spain, Dawn and I returned to Texas to heal
our marriage wounds, to restore my health,
and to place my heart before Jesus and
have him enter into those places where he
needed to reside so that his priorities would
become mine.
God doesn’t just want radical depen-
photos page 31, top left: Paul takes his son, Sam, on a
mission trip to Colombia. top right: Today, Paul serves as
director of the Mobilzation team. bottom: The Cox family:
Joseph, Paul, Dawn, Samuel, Benjamin, and Caroline
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