Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What Makes a Biblical Man?

Many things could be said here but Mark Driscoll boils it down to responsibility.  He writes:
A man is not the one who can spit the farthest, punch the hardest, fart the stinkiest, or yell the loudest. A man takes responsibility.
Some of you are not big or strong or physically tough. In a cage fight, it’s not going to go well for you. In a squirt gunfight, it’s not going to go well for you. But you can still be a man if you’re responsible.
Jesus died for my sins; he took responsibility for me. Once you understand how Jesus’ masculinity is one of the means by which he has served us well as covenant head, then you will realize to be a man means to take responsibility as the head of the covenant of marriage.
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