I want to give ordinary Christian men a rule of life. Most of what's written for men right now is about becoming “impressive”, and a lot of the Christian version is the same thing with verses attached. I'm aiming at something plainer. A man who belongs to Christ, who knows it, and who takes care of what God has put in his hands.
So the book starts with ownership and works outward from there. Your body, your marriage, sex, your kids, work, money, church, friendship, the phone, suffering, getting old, dying. Each one gets handled as a stewardship under Christ and never as a self improvement project.
The order matters to me. Grace comes first, then gratitude, then obedience. A man who gets that backwards will either quit or turn into a tyrant in his own house.
If the book works, a man finishes it and gets up the next morning to pray, love his wife, father his kids, do his job and repent when he blows it. Then he does it again. I think that kind of ordinary faithfulness is what most of us are actually missing. Myself included.
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