What is a Real Biblical Man?

Where are the Real Biblical Men? Do they even exist anymore? Are they in the gym lifting twice their body weight? Are they under their cars in their garages, elbows deep in grease? Are they working on a delivery truck or perhaps holding down a factory job? All of those things sound pretty darn manly to me. Perhaps the better question is this: Where aren’t the Real Biblical Men?

Real Biblical Men aren’t settling for less.

Real Biblical Men aren’t lazy.

Real Biblical Men aren’t following their own will for their lives.

Real Biblical Men aren’t living for themselves.

In short, Real Biblical Men, have purpose and something to drive toward. Non-Christian men have these qualities too thought. So, what does a Real Biblical Man look like? I struggled to define what this looks like today. But if I could sum it all up, I believe a Real Biblical Man is living a life dedicated to God, through honoring and serving those around him while constantly pursuing what God wills for his life, and leading those around him to do the same.

Think back. In your life, have you been around a man who had a faith that was so painfully obvious that it was hard to ignore it? Maybe you never had that in your life. Maybe all of your life you were surrounded by boys in men’s clothing. My fear is that many of the leaders we are putting in place today are just boys who can shave. Sometimes I feel like I’m guilty of that.

While this question of real manhood is interesting to debate, the scary reality is that there is a war going on right now, bigger than all of the major conflicts we have ever witnessed on earth. This war is a heavenly battle between the spiritual principalities of light and dark, truth and lies, heaven and hell. We are the soldiers in God’s army, called to follow him into battle.

With that image in mind, think: If in 1941, when the U.S. entered WWII, we had called for all able-bodied 6^th graders to pick up weapons and charge at Germany’s finest, what do you think the outcome would have been? To us, this scenario is laughable. We wouldn’t even consider it as a viable possibility. And yet daily, men of all ages and sizes sit and watch as an entire of generation of boys are being thrown into the firing lines. Christian men, charged to lead by example and teach and train these boys, stand by as the world tramples young men at every turn.

The time has come for a few of God’s men, with craziness and passion in their eyes, to set down the video game controllers, quit procrastinating, stop hiding from their creator God behind lusts of the flesh, and to step into field general positions rallying the troops for a clear and present danger. We need leaders, Godly leaders: not afraid of failure, not afraid of losing, not afraid of a puny and defeated enemy, willing to stand in the gap for our future.

Now, let’s use these next few blogs to look into some of the pitfalls and misguided thoughts that entrap boys of the faith and keep them from becoming men of God.