(Program 10331)
Guests: Karl Schultz, Thomas K Sullivan, John Martignoni

Our culture portrays the masculine through a variety of images and exaggerations. A real man is either a beer-guzzling do nothing in a tee shirt and baggy jeans or he is a dude decked out like a magazine ad trawling the street in a sports car looking for his next hook-up.

He may be pictured as a dad, wimped out by his wife with an IQ points lower than his youngest child or a nerd so wired to his electronics that his own brain is nearly fried.

But, God's ideal for the masculine is none of these things. His ideal is a reflection of His very image and likeness, entrusted with aspects of His own fatherhood that leads others to eternal life. To what extent is God's vision of man portrayed at the very start of human civilation and can that ideal be recovered?
This week our topic is authentic masculinity--Real Men: Mission and Purpose. Yesterday, we took a look at the dawn of human civilization and saw how God intentioned that the masculine should be a reflection of His own image and likeness imbued with aspects of His own spiritual paternity.

Today, we will discuss how our culture suffers from a lack of men and women who truly understand who they are in the eyes of God and how He desires for them to live this reality in the world today. Who is the authentically masculine person - the real man - who lives out the grace of his gender for the benefit of all. Today we have three real men to tell us all about it.