Sovereign Irony and a Noble Task

John A. Broadus Memorial Chapel (Southern Seminary, Louisville, KY.)

 "The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil."  1 Timothy 3:1-7

Man, A Little Lower than Angels (Part 2: Masculinity Brutalized)

In my last post, I looked at who Man was made to be in Genesis.  To be honest, that was the first half of a larger idea that I had, yet there was no way that I could put everything I wanted to say under one heading.  I wanted to show what Man was made to be from the Beginning, who he has become now, and the culture he finds himself in today.  I tried to cover the first two already, and now I am moving on to the third.  And, I must preface: it may read like a diatribe.  The masculine culture in which I have been raised sickens me.  The men in this world (and in Christ's church) seem to be, as I believe Mark Driscoll described them, nothing but boys who can shave.  Our idea of what makes a man needs to change.