The Manhood Journey

QUESTIONS:

1. Would your family describe your attitude toward your job as mostly positive or negative? Why is this so? If it's mostly negative, how can you turn that ship around and help them view work as a good thing to bring glory to God? If mostly positive, why not up your game and turn work talk into missional opportunity talk?




2. Are you stuck in a ca

As for this chapter, here's where I'd ask you to start:

If you had to list five characteristics of a godly man, what would those be? This isn't a test; there are dozens. What are the first five that immediately come to mind?

Among those five, how would you grade' yourself on some maturity curve? From 'have no clue' to 'been doing that for years, do a

QUESTIONS:

1. If I had you list, right now, who your enemies are, who would you put on that list? Forget for a moment that we just talked about them not being the enemy and write down who you'd have said fit this description. Now, for each of them, can you identify the 'real' enemy behind them?




2. What spiritual opposition do you face on a regular basis? I

QUESTIONS:

1. How good are you at asking questions? How can you improve in this area? Would those closest to you describe you more as a 'teller' or an 'asker?




2. Think of the names of one or two of your closer friends (excluding your wife and kids). With those names in mind, can you list any of the following characteristics about them:

a. Their most signifi

However, while you're busy working on the “machine," don't lose sight of what God's doing in the "mechanic" He cares much more about who you are becoming than what task you are performing.

He went on to describe his own journey in more detail. He said that he'd stopped viewing every challenge as just a problem to solve, but a moment t

To put the matter bluntly, I am not my kids' hero.

I don't want to be their hero.

I want my children's hero to be Jesus Christ.

My job is to point to the Savior, not try and be one.

This is where fathers can go overboard and develop an 'earthly-dad-the-everlasting-father' complex. At some point of maturity, I must transition to becoming the colaborer i

What a golden opportunity! First, I was grateful he brought me the question (bridge of trust still intact? Check!). Second, I was delighted that I'd been where he was before. I didn't want to only believe the Bible because other respected leaders said I should. There was something deep in me that knew that if the Bible was true, it could prove itse

And until you decide prayer is effective, you won't place a priority on it. That's the crux of the issue for fathers. Most of us men are wired to use things that work – computers, shovels, hammers, TV remotes. If they don't work, we put them down. If we believe prayer doesn't work, it's a tool we'll never pick up. We must understand what 'works' me

When you live out your faith as a father, you're showing God to the world. Put another way, for you and me, our highest calling is to represent God to the world. The stakes are higher than us getting accolades, becoming respected in the community, raising great kids or even building a thriving marriage.

Fathers are the lens through which the next ge