Forming Men

Where is the church!?! We're having gay marriage ram-rodded down our throats in our land because the church has not been raising men. Men go make things happen. Men pursue women and commit their lives to them. Men raise children under their watchful shadows. Men make families happen.

Real men don't go using women for quick kicks and booty calls.

Real men get married young and gut out the hardship of raising a family WHILE developing a career (and character). 

Real men don't just decry the loss of traditional heterosexual marriage they get married and encourage other young men to do the same as their god-ordained and patriotic duty.

Comments

[Eric]

Garrett-
Using your pictoral metaphor, I think this critical element of manufacturing in the orthodox/orthoprax church has been outsourced to the southern hemisphere. It's all services here now and the customer is always right, right?

[Garrett]

Eric,

They're actually welding hinges onto software boxes so its part of the new fusion of the industrial and information revolution.

[Jason Biette]

Pastor Craw,

I wanted to thank you so much for your blog (it has been an inspiration to me over the past year) and for this particular post. Not only is it an accurate admonition of the church, and the culture that the church has created, it is also a wonderful encouragement to those young guys who are trying (by God's grace) to do exactly what you said. As a 30 year hold husband and father of two (Ruthie and Phoebe, my precious girls, are 22 months and 2 months respectively), I work as an Associate Pastor (in a very small congregation), and as a Science teacher at a local Christian high school. Basically that means I have three full time jobs, and I would be lying if I said it was easy, or always a joy. It is very tough work, but real men do tough work. Thank God for our wives. So, not only does the church need to decry the cultural problems, and not only does the church need to teach its people to be the solution, the church needs to encourage those who are on the front lines of that battle. For me, your post was that encouragement. Thank you, and keep up the good work. Praise God!

[Garrett]

Jason,

Thanks for the encouraging word. The cool part is that statistically guys who mold their careers and character THROUGH marriage and family (not before) go farther career-wise. In your case that means much more wisdom and a congregation who will appreciate it.