Beyond Parenting: Chris Knopping on Raising Visionary Families

Chris Knopping —husband, father, entrepreneur— joins Dan to discuss intentional, mission-driven households that bless generations, using Abraham as a model for hearing God’s call, casting vision, building culture, stewarding resources, and passing legacy. Chris shares a new morning routine with his 13-year-old involving a rite-of-passage “journey to manhood,” Bible lessons, prayer, and workouts, and explains how he learned fatherhood “on the job” after delaying children.

They explore cultural pressures to postpone kids, the industrial revolution’s role in separating work from home, identity rooted in being God’s children rather than achievement, skepticism about college debt, and RAD Dad’s seven pillars: teamwork, mission, identity, culture, training, rhythms, and rest, plus practical next steps through groups and Psalms 127–128.