A view about manhood

The first part of my life was lived without a plan. I didn't see the need for having a focused goal in mind. My plan was to do as much as possible and make as much money as I could. There was no way I could attain a set goal or reach a point that I could claim success. A life without a plan is a worthless life. As men, we need to live with the end in mind. We need to live with a plan that has a focused goal. One face of being a man is the warrior face. The warrior lives with an energy focused on conquest. A warrior is driven to attain a certain goal. It may be to sell 5% more than the previous year for a salesperson, or maybe the previous month. A focused goal is needed. If the salesperson sets his goal as just more, his success could be at 1% or 10%. In reviewing his year, it is harder to establish exactly how successful of a year the salesperson had. We focused Wednesday night on looking back. The salesperson first needs to look back to see where his goals should be. He wouldn...

Our Wednesday night men's group has started going through the Men's Fraternity program created by Robert Lewis. Robert Lewis may be best known as the writer of "Raising a Modern Day Knight". The first year of this study is "The Quest for Authentic Manhood". We are trying to get an idea of what an authentic man is. This week we looked at the four faces of a man. First we looked at the king face, followed by the warrior face, then the lover face, and lastly the friend face. These faces are similar to Stu Weber's four pillars of a man's heart (King,Warrior,Friend,and Mentor). Both Weber and Lewis are looking for balance in men. Men get stressed out trying to be the "perfect man". The only perfect man to walk the face of earth was God Himself in the person of Jesus Christ. Since that time (and before), men have tried to match this perfection only to fall short. In this study we are looking to be balanced men. A balanced man knows he has limitat...