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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Kingdom Man?

Kingdom Man is the name of the book by Tony Evans I have started reading. It was used on the men's retreat for First Baptist Nashville this weekend. At the last minute I decided not to go for multiple reasons. One of those is that I did not think it would be good for the younger adults if in discussions I got started talking about my failed marriage. Though they might learn from my mistakes, I did not want to complicate the message that God wants men to be the spiritual leader of the family. I was more concerned about keeping the peace than being a spiritual leader in my marriage and that is just one of my failures. I've only read three chapters so far and hope to learn a lot and grow spiritually from some of the lessons. The thing I don't particularly care for in the book so far is his big emphasis on the macho man, sports, etc. which has never been me. But if he can use it to bring men to God, more power to him. The first two chapters describe what he calls a "Kingdom Man" and the third presents his idea that we are all called to greatness. It is a spiritual greatness. I'll report more as I read more, but my first repulsion by the macho-ism has been relieved as I read further.

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