WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN

American society, including much of professed Christianity, derives its idea of what constitutes manhood from what is portrayed by Hollywood. This is equivalent to ones deriving their concept of what constitutes a masterpiece of art from what they see in piles of mud and garbage. Sadly, Edward Abbey was right when he wrote, “In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.”

Good books and articles have been and are being written on the subject of manhood. But the clearest most challenging definition of manhood has been given to us by the Creator Himself. This is found in First Corinthians 16:13-14: �