So I Got No Pictures.. What are you Gonna Do? Beat Me Up?

I "Tweeted" over this past weekend about the Apostle Paul giving us specific instructions about how to act like men in the "universal" Church (ie the Bride of Christ). I wouldn't start a church based on this observation but it would seem to me that if there are men in the church (local) who would prefer to sit and watch rather than stand and lead, they may as well just get it over with. Jesus did say that if we are not with Him we are against Him.

Taking up perfectly good space in the sanctuary would seem to me akin to wasting air while we should be doing some sort of ministry. I would also suggest that these same men are not leading their families either. In Titus, we are shown what the men of the church are required to do before being given a leadership role / elder position at the church. Shouldn't all men be looking to be qualified here? Shouldn't we know of the men who are not qualified because we are praying for and coming alongside them and their families and acting like the men God called us to be. I

If you are a man who is not leading his family SPIRITUALLY then what are you doing? What is it that you think God has called you to that is more important? Do you ever make eye contact with your wife?

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up
for her.

The quote from Mark Driscoll (at the end of this) shows me that he gets it. He is striving to follow the TRUE God! Maybe if we all looked at Jesus like this we would stop being the silent one.......

1. at home with our wives




2. at home with our kids




3. at work




4. in the community




5. at church

Fellowship is not a night out at the Buffalo Wings joint (rest assured I will still be there every time), it is men together, reading, understanding, and DOING the Word of God. If you are already on your way, go find others like you and do some damage for His Kingdom!
Here's Mr Driscoll:
"There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity."

—Mark Driscoll, Relevant Magazine^[15]

^{Sounds like this Jesus requires more from us than we can possibly give without His help.}

^{the Ogre}