Introduction
This book is written with a concerned heart for the Christian man. He is being pulled in a million directions and losing the battle. It’s time to man up and get serious about saving the modern-day Christian man before we become extinct.
Chapter 1: Time to Man Up Personally
In the church today, there are men sitting in pews and chairs who are as useless as the furniture they are sitting on. Most of them have no clue what they need to do for God’s kingdom. Some couldn’t care less. Still others are too prideful to step out beyond what they already know and are stuck in their so-called comfort zone.
Chapter 2: Man Up in Your Marriage
The day before I got married, my mom made my bed. The day after I got married, my wife made it. I had just gone from one mom to the other. I was the biggest sissy around. My wife was my mom, not my soul-mate. She spent many years training me to become a man. It didn’t work too well because that isn’t the biblical model, and I think over time she finally stopped trying and just let go.
Chapter 3: Man Up in Fatherhood
Men, this is not rocket science. It is just time with your kids. In your busy schedule, mark off a day a month or a day a week to spend with your kids one-on-one. Start off with an hour. It will begin to turn into multiple hours. I will bet it will turn into time you can’t stand to miss.
Chapter 4: Man Up in Church
The true reason we don’t want to go to church is that we are afraid to Man Up. We are so afraid that we are going to lose touch with the world and our sinful ways that we make up excuses about why we don’t want to go to church.
Chapter 5: Man Up at Work
For us to be living intentionally as Christians, we have to behave the same at work as we do in church on Sunday morning. Don’t be fake, and don’t put on an air of “I have Holy Spirit joy, and you don’t.” You must be a real, honest, and transparent Christian who is under construction. What we want them to see in you is someone who is trying daily to follow the One who died for all.
Chapter 6: Man Up and Be Accountable
After having problems with pornography and impure thoughts for most of my life, I discussed this with my accountability partner. He advised me to go through certain steps in order to tame my mind and my addiction to pornography. These thoughts and actions were so ingrained that it took time for me to deal with them.
But after that time, I talked with my wife about it. I let her know about the problem I was having and how, through accountability, Scripture, and prayer, I had begun to deal with it. To my surprise, her response was, “What can I do to help?”
Chapter 7: Man Up and Disciple
As I read the New Testament, the definition I get of a disciple is this: a person who is a born-again believer, who is obedient, who bears fruit, who glorifies God, who has joy, who loves others, who denies himself, and who is committed to fulfilling the Great Commission. The problem with this definition is that people like this are almost nonexistent in the modern-day church.
Chapter 8: Put Up or Shut Up
This is the charge I leave you with. What are you going to do with the challenge? Are you going to Man Up? Will you put up a fight and stand up for what should matter most in your life and in the lives around you? Or are you going to keep living as a spiritual sissy?
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