My prayer is that as you, and several of your friends, grapple with the content of this workbook, God's dream for your life will erupt for His glory and the advancement of the cause of Christ. Our world desperately needs men living out the dreams God has burned into their hearts.
God's dream for us is dangerously attractive, inviting, and controversial.
You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.
Imagine a world where men had an inner construction from their identity in God, and out of that created priorities and loyalties which drove their choices.
God knows where your sex life exists in private. And you know what? that's a room of your life you need to open a door to Him.
Jesus wants you to connect with reality because inside that reality is truth that will transform you.
The greatest gift we can give any community is a spiritually and relationally healthy man.
Every year, men try to pony up at Valentine's Day for their spouse, significant other or loved ones with the obligatory purchase of red roses, chocolates, jewelry, a card and perhaps a romantic dinner. Some men dutifully step up. Others go over the top, while others cross their fingers hoping they can do something right. But all men face the pressure of answering the conundrum that has alluded men for centuries.
God is not against sex - but, he wants to be let into your private sex life.
If it's God's design, then it intrinsically has God's value attached to it. So when you assign value to anything, you stop misusing it and you start enjoying it.
Let God's authority, person, and WORD change us internally to help us make positive impact externally.