The first doesn’t always equal the second.
But the children are more likely to be faithful if they have the father’s faithfulness to learn from and reflect.
Here is something in which I have not been faithful:
“We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old” (Psalm 44:1).
I am too quiet.
Too withdrawn.
About the works and wonders of God.
So what — if anything — will I do about it now?