Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 1)

June 12, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley

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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 1) | June 12, 2026

Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move," where we
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Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide; and today, i'm
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Offering some free, unoriginal, time-tested advice that will all
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But ensure that you don't break the rules that have the
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Potential to break you.
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It's advice worth considering, so stick around.
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I think you'll be glad you did.
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♪♪♪
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Andy: so today's message is actually just for men.
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Fathers for sure, but not just fathers, just all the men, men
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In general.
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All of us men--this is not a religious thing.
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It's not a christian thing, it's just a--it's a male thing.
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All of us, every one of us men, we have all made a decision.
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And we're pretty confident that we've made the right decision,
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But i wanna make sure we've made the right decision.
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So this week and next time we're together, i wanna poke around on
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The decision that we've made to make sure we have it right
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Because it's important for all of us in terms of the decision
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We've made as men, but it's especially important for those
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Of us who are fathers because we're going to impose our
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Decision on our sons and we're going to create expectations for
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Our daughters.
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And the decision that i'm referring to that you've already
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Made, even though you don't know that you've made it because we
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Don't make it consciously but we've all made it--that's why
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We're surfacing it.
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The decision that i'm talking about is how we decide what it
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Means to be--or how we define or how we measure or how we pursue
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Or how we demonstrate masculinity.
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Specifically, to kind of bring it down a level, what it means
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To be a man, our picture.
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Again, our expectation, our expectation for ourselves, what
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We're shooting for, what we're aiming for 'cause we like to
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Shoot things and we like to aim things right.
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Our north star.
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And to get us started with this, i'm gonna give you a--basically
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A general definition of masculinity; and it has a lot of
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Wiggle room because we don't all see this the same way, and
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That's kind of the point of what we're gonna talk about today and
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Next time we're together.
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So here's kind of a general definition to kind of get us
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All started.
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Masculinity is--and i didn't make this up.
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This is from somewhere.
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A set of attributes, behaviors, and roles, attributes,
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Behaviors, and roles, a lot of wiggle room, generally--a lot of
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Wiggle room.
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Generally associated with men and with boys.
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So masculinity is a set of attributes, they're all--you
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Know, we probably put different things on that list, behaviors
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And roles generally associated with men and boys, and here's
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The thing about it.
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You're pretty sure you know what those attributes, behaviors, and
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Roles are, and i'm pretty sure i know what they are as well.
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If i were to ask you, you know, what does it mean to be a man,
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What is it--what are the attributes of a real man,
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Behaviors and roles, you would have an answer to that question,
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I would have an answer to that question, even though maybe
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You've never thought about it before because we assume that
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It's just kind of intuitive, it's just kind of self-evident.
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I mean, duh, you--i mean, you just know or you think you do.
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But do we?
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And the reason i'm not so sure that we necessarily do is
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Because, and this is why we're talking about this, and don't
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Leave early, to some degree, to some degree, to some degree
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Somebody who's not you defined masculinity for you and somebody
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Who's not me defined masculinity for me.
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And i'm gonna tell you a little bit more about that in just a
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Minute, but somebody who's not you actually defined this for
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You, that you were born into a family that gave you a
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Definition of masculinity or modeled something.
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You were born in--we're all born into a culture that says this is
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What it means to be a man.
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So there was some sense of expectation, and it was handed
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To you and it was handed to me and consequently it
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Feels intuitive.
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It feels like, "oh, everybody just knows this."
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Don't we all see it the same way?
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But it's not as intuitive as we think because somebody gave you
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A script just like somebody gave me a script, and it feels like a
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Weight, again, an expectation.
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In other words, "son, this is what it means to be a man."
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And maybe it was your father or your grandfather or an uncle or
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Whoever raised you.
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It might have been your mom, if you were raised by a single mom,
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Who said, "you know, son, this is what it looks like to be
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A man.
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This is what a man does.
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This is how a man behaves."
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But that this--this is what we're gonna talk about today,
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That this may or may not have fit your temperament.
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It may not have fit your disposition.
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It may or may not have matched your physicality or
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Your interest.
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If it did, you know, you just went with it.
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You just put that thing over your shoulders and you just went
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With it.
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You just lived it out because it fit you perfectly.
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I mean, the definition of masculinity and what it means to
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Be a man that my dad draped over my shoulders, it just fits so i
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Just went with it.
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I never had any conflict, right?
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I'm gonna tell you more about that in just a minute.
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But perhaps the this that you inherited, it fit you well, but
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Maybe it didn't fit your brother and he struggled.
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In fact, he struggled to be more like you.
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He struggled to be more like your father.
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And what did he do?
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Well, he did his best to drape that thing on and to live that
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Out, and he never felt like he measured up, never felt like he
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Matched, and you sensed the inse--created insecurity, and
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You saw that and there was this--again, there was this
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Unspoken pressure.
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"come on, you gotta man up.
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You gotta step up," right?
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And he did his best for a while.
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Or maybe the--different option was maybe the this was so
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Loosely defined that you just never felt that pressure.
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You were just free to be you.
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Now, here's something that escapes us, and this is the part
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I really don't want you to tune me out, okay, because if you
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Could think, "oh, i know what this is all about."
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Just hang with me, okay?
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To a large degree, not exclusively but to a large
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Degree--in fact, larger--to a larger degree that many of us
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Want to concede, masculinity really is a social and cultural
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Construct, as is femininity.
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Here's what i mean by that.
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Every generation and every culture within every generation
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Has its own version of or redefines or kind of tweaks the
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Definition of what it means to be a man or what masculinity
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Looks like or acts like or feels like or responds like.
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I'm going to give you one example and--granted this is
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Kind of extreme, but it makes the point.
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And i'm gonna let some of you guess in just a minute who
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I'm talking about, so don't say it out loud.
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One of history's most successful military leaders, i mean,
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Literally within the context of his culture a military and
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Political genius, even though they don't--didn't think in
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Political terms back then, but we would think in political
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Terms--military and political genius who led the largest
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Continental empire in medieval or modern history, in other
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Words, the empire that had the largest land mass, okay, this
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Particular individual because of how he viewed what it meant to
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Be a man and the expectations of his culture to be a man and what
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It meant to be masculine as a military leader, the--he viewed
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His responsibility as a leader and as a man to sire as many
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Children as possible by as many women as possible.
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Anybody wanna take a guess at who i'm talking about--who we're
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Talking about?
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Anybody?
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Yes, genghis khan.
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Heard it right over here.
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Founder of the mongol empire had hundreds and hundreds of
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Children by hundreds of women.
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Some say over 1,000 children, and the point being this.
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In other parts of the world and more of the western world, that
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Kind of behavior, even during that period of history, was
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Considered horrible.
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I mean, barbaric.
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I mean, this--somebody that would do that was considered a
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Monster, right?
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And by our standards, we would consider somebody who that was
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Their goal to be a monster, too.
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Now, hopefully--okay, i don't know you personally, but
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Hopefully the notion of siring as many children as possible by
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As many women as possible, that doesn't strike you as masculine,
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That strikes you as irresponsible.
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But why?
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Well, i know it's an extreme example because somebody gave
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You a script and gave me a script, fortunately, that says
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That's not what it means to be a man.
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That's horrible.
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My point is this, that our assumptions--and this is hard
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For some of us.
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I get it, especially with things going on in our culture today.
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Our assumptions regarding masculinity, they are not
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100% intuitive.
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They are cultural, they are learned, and then
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They're reinforced.
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So we have to be careful who we're listening to, and we have
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To be careful who we're looking to to define for us what it
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Means to be a man.
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So let me ask you.
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What was the script?
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You don't answer this out loud, and you've not given this
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Any thought.
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I get it.
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What was the script you were handed by your father, or your
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Uncle, or your mom, or the group of people you were raised by, or
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The culture you were raised in?
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What was that script?
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And i'll go first.
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As i thought about this with my dad, here's what i boiled it
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Down to.
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Now, my dad was a pastor, so there was a spiritual glaze that
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Got, you know, put over all of this; but if i just boil it down
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Humanly speaking, it came down to three things.
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Number one, respect women.
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Period.
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Number two, do your best.
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Number three, look your best.
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This is what it meant to be a man.
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There was more to it than that, but in terms of what it came
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Back to over and over and over, you respect women always, and
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You look your best, and you do your best.
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I--my grades were, "hey, did you do your best?"
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He was satisfied with it, that--over and over and over.
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Respect women, do your best, and look your best.
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He grew up very poor, grew up with a single mom.
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His father died when he was about 10 months old, so he never
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Knew his father; and his mom and dad had only--had been married
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Less than 2 years when his father passed away.
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So, of course, this shaped his value system.
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Of course, it shaped what he saw really his--the filter for
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Everything in life, but especially what it meant to be
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A man because he saw his mom mistreated by men.
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So consequently, this was a really big deal.
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So when i was raised, "hey, you know, you can do a lot of things
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Wrong, but you never show disrespect to your mom and you
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Never disrespect your sister."
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That was a big, big deal.
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And i wore that and i liked that and then, lo and behold, i
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Thought it was just intuitive.
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When i began to raise my sons to respect their mom and respect
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Their sister, i thought, "well, this is just what men do."
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And then i realized i'm so glad my dad laid that on me.
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That's a good thing.
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But i didn't make that up, and i meet men all the time who that
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Just seems to be the furthest thing from their minds.
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And isn't it true it was family--it came from your family
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And came from culture and it just feels so normal and
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So natural?
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Whether it fit you or it didn't, it just feels like, "this must
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Be what it means to be a man because this is what was
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Expected of me."
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And it wasn't defined.
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Nobody wrote it down.
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You just--it was just placed on your shoulders.
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And for you, was it primarily externals?
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Was it, you know, the normal stuff, sports and grades and
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Scholarships, and, "son, you gotta get a good education so
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You can make a lot of money and support your family?"
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Was it those kinds of things?
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I mean, those are all good.
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Or was it more about character?
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Who you were gonna become?
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What was going on on the inside?
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Or hopefully it was kind of a blend of both.
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But either way, isn't it true it set an expectation?
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And if the script fit, you wore it.
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And if the script didn't fit, you struggled.
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You doubted yourself.
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It might have created some internal insecurity.
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You attempted to prove yourself, or maybe you just gave up.
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Then you come to church and you hear me say week after week,
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"gentlemen, follow jesus."
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And there's one group of you--i'm gonna give you
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Permission to think this and feel this.
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I get this.
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I'm not as far removed from this as you would assume and as
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You imagine.
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There's one group of you, whenever i say this, you're
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Like, "sweet passive jesus?
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I cannot go there.
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My wife loves all that stuff, but i cannot go and follow sweet
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Passive jesus.
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Okay, andy?
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I mean, i like you and you're fine, but, you know--"
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This is why a lot of men just don't like church,
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And i understand that.
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I am a man, i get that.
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I was a man before i was a pastor.
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Very difficult for you to imagine,
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But it's absolutely true, right?
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Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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Crisis in america.
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Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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Most of us know some of these people.
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Many of us are related to some of these people.
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So for us they aren't statistics, they're people we
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Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
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So at "your move," we are committed to reaching people
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With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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Least expect it.
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People to jesus.
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Andy: so one group's like, "i just can't go there.
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My wife can, but not me."
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And i understand their frustration, and one of the
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Reasons you don't love church is like, "well, my wife wants me to
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Be more like jesus."
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Or i'll give you another option, okay?
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You probably don't even know about this one.
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You would like revelation jesus.
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Do you know about revelation jesus?
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Revelation jesus is very different than matthew, mark,
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Luke, and john jesus.
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In fact, some of you just started reading the book
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Of revelation.
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It's very confusing, but you'll find him in there somewhere.
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In the book of revelation, jesus shows up.
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He is not meek and mild jesus.
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He is riding a white horse.
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He is covered in the blood, not his blood, the blood of his
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Enemies, and there is a sword coming out of his mouth.
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"bring it.
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That's the--i mean, come on, i--okay, my wife didn't tell me
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About that jesus.
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Now we're talking about somebody i can follow."
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And here's how it ends in the book of revelation, okay?
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"the rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of
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The rider on the horse."
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That's jesus.
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"and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh."
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And in the book of revelation, this is called the supper of
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God, a battlefield covered with the dead enemies of jesus, and
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The birds descend and they start with this--i won't go there.
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It's so awful and so gross you can almost smell it when you
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Read it, and you read--and you watch that and you think, "i
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Would watch that movie.
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In fact, now what--that's in the bible?"
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Yes, this is revelation jesus.
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You're like, "where's that guy been," right?
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But there are many christians, many christian men, i've become
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One over the years, who actually identify with turn the other
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Cheek, love one another, stop on your way, wherever you're going,
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To help somebody who needs help, stop for women and children.
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Jesus, who refused to torch his enemies on his way to jerusalem.
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We've talked about this before, and the disciples--they're
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Supposed to stay in--they're going through samaria, you know.
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They're not supposed to be in samaria, and they send, you
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Know, a couple of disciples ahead to find out,
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"hey, can we spend the night in your village?
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We're on our way to jerusalem."
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And the samaritans say, "no, we don't want you
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In our village 'cause you're going to jerusalem,
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And we're not like you."
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And the two of the disciples say to jesus, "can we just torch the
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Whole village?"
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They ask him that.
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"can we torch the town?"
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Jesus is like, "no, we can't torch the town."
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So this is the dilemma.
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This is where we live.
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This is why we're talking about it.
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How do we reconcile all of this as christian men, as men who
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Want to follow jesus, whatever version of jesus we find?
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Is it jesus of the gospels?
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Is it jesus in the book of revelation?
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Is it the script that my dad put on my shoulders and that your
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Uncle and your grandfather and your father maybe put around?
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Is that the version, the scripts that are prescribed to us
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By culture?
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How do we decide how to define what it means to be a man?
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Here's why this is so important.
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And what should we point our sons and our daughters toward?
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Do christian men need to man up?
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There's a movement right now among churches christian men
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Need to man up and the--where i get it is that pastors need to
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Step up.
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And when i read this literature and i watch these messages, it's
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Like basically they want us to man up based on an ancient
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Testosterone-induced version of masculinity that honestly would
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Scare you, okay?
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But somehow there's this movement that we need to man up,
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We need to step up.
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Is that the case?
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How do we know?
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How do we define it?
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And the truth is we're not all the same.
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Now, some of us are, you know, aggressive and some of us are
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Passive aggressive and some of us are, you know, like we just
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Can't do enough and get enough done and there's a wake of
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Relational, you know, stuff behind us that we can't fix
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Because we're so progress-oriented.
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There are others of us that are so dialed into the relationships
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Of people around us.
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Is one right and one's wrong?
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How do we know how to define masculinity, and what does it
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Mean to be a man if you're gonna follow jesus?
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And i'm convinced--that's why i wanted to talk about it for 2
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Weeks 'cause there's just too much to cover in one.
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I'm absolutely convinced, more convinced than ever that the
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Answer to that question is actually found in jesus
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Of nazareth.
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Jesus not as presented in the book of revelation, jesus of
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Nazareth as known by the men and women who knew him, walked with
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Him, listened to him, taught with him, and then took his
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Message all over the world.
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Men like matthew who documented the life of jesus, men like john
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Who documented the life of jesus, they were there the
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Whole time.
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Men like peter who were there from day one.
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Peter who calloused hands, sunburned.
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I mean, a man--i mean, just physical, manual labor peter,
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Who had to learn so many things when it came to following jesus
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And then became the leader of the entire group later on.
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Somehow he figured out how to bring the world of his manliness
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Together with the teaching of jesus.
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And i'm absolutely convinced, regardless of what kind of man
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You are and what you've experienced in life and the way
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That you're wired, that in jesus we find the ultimate picture of
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A man, of masculinity.
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And it doesn't make us all the same, it makes us all better.
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Jesus, who was in fact, it's so interesting, a descendant of
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David the giant killer, david the warrior, who emerged from
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Battle covered in the blood of his enemies, literally, versus
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Jesus, who emerges from his final battle covered in his
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Own blood.
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Jesus, the ultimate man.
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I mean, to put it in terms that some of us can identify with, he
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Literally was tougher than roman nails.
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He was harder and unyielding as roman steel.
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He was by one descriptor the lion of judah, who in the
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End--and i know i come back to this narrative over and over and
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It's because i didn't--when i was raised in the church, i
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Never heard this until i began to study for myself the
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Significance of this.
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Who in the end--the lion of you, who in the end fearlessly,
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Voluntarily marched into the lion's den of jerusalem, knowing
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What was gonna happen to him, but not as the lion but as the
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Lamb of god whose final act defined
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What it means to be a man,
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Whose final act defined and illustrated what it means to be
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A man as god created men to be.
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His final act dismantles and undermines all of our flawed,
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Imbalanced, cultural family scripts.
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His final moment are the way forward, i'm convinced, for
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All men.
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The alphas and the artists, you know, the collectors and the
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Coders 'cause we're all so different.
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Here's how the story really went.
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You know this.
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Here we are. this is what we're drawn to.
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In fact, it's so interesting jesus at one point said, "if i'm
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Lifted up--" talking about his crucifixion, "if i'm lifted up
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And if people see this for what it really is and on the day that
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Everyone actually sees it for what it really is," he says, "i
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Will draw all men to me, all kinds of men to me because in me
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They will see the ultimate creation, the ultimate intent,
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The ultimate purpose of what it means to be a man made in the
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Image of our heavenly father."
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There was nothing meek nor mild about your king or about your
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Savior, and yet he was the one who stopped on his way to his
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Most important appointment to heal a blind man.
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You remember this.
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"the people stood watching," waiting for him to die, "and the
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Rulers even sneered at him."
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They sneer at a--what kind of man mocks a dying man hanging
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From a cross?
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Not the winners.
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Those are the losers.
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"they sneered at him, and they said, 'he saved others; let him
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Save himself."'
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"come on, if you're really a king, we--hey, we know what we
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Would do if we were in your situation."
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And the soldiers who also came up, they mocked him and they
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Said--and this is tame.
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We don't know the words they used.
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These were gritty soldiers.
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The most--i mean, it's unimaginable what--the insults
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They hurled at jesus as he died.
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Things that wouldn't be scripted.
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Things that wouldn't be written.
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Things that would be--you know, things you couldn't share.
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You just wouldn't document them.
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You can imagine.
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And they said, "if you're the king of the jews,
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Save yourself."
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In other words, "hey, a real king, a real man, he's not gonna
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Allow himself to be defeated in public if he doesn't have to be
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Defeated in public.
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Real men don't allow themselves to be defeated at all.
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And if you're supposedly a king, you're not acting like a king.
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If you were really a king, you would not allow yourself to be
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Taken, you would not have allowed yourself to
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Be surprised.
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There would be an army of followers, but where's
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Your army?
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You're no king."
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They assumed he could--this is important.
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They assumed he could not save himself, but the truth was the
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Superman, the ultimate man refused to save himself.
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Because if he had saved himself, he would have forfeited his
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Opportunity to save you and to save his accusers
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And to save the world.
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By refusing to do for himself what every one of his accusers
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Would have done for themselves, he defined what it means to be a
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Man and in that moment, in that moment he won a fight his
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Accusers weren't even aware was being fought.
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At the intersection--and this is what we're gonna kind of tease
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Out next time.
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At the intersection of lion and lamb, we find perfect
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Masculinity on display.
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At the cross, we're all confronted with a battle.
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We're--at the cross, we're all confronted with a battle that
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Every single man wrestles with, that every single man is invited
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To fight, to join every single day; and it requires the courage
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Of a lion, and it requires the humility of the lamb.
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It's the battle to say no to me so i can say yes to the people
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Around me.
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It's the battle to deny myself and to control myself so i can
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Give more of myself away.
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So if you're a jesus's follower, men, men, if you're a jesus's
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Follower, or you're attempting to be a jesus's follower or
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You're considering being a jesus's follower, this is the
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Script, this is the script.
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That's the script we're to pass on to our sons.
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I feel like in so many ways it's certainly part of--even though
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He didn't use this language, this is part of the script that
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My dad handed off to me and draped around my shoulders as it
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Relates to honoring and respecting women that translates
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Ultimately to honor and respecting other people.
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This is the script, men, that we are to model for our daughters.
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Paul said it this way.
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He said jesus--this is so amazing.
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Paul wrote it this way.
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Again, this is after the resurrection--years after
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The resurrection.
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Paul, who wrote this--remember, i know we talk about this
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All the time, paul was a violent man.
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Paul was absolutely insistent that he was gonna put the church
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Out of business, and he leveraged all of his skills and
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All of his activist intuition and--to get it done, and then he
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Meets jesus and he goes on to impact the world.
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But he writes these words about jesus, again, looking back after
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The resurrection, that jesus who was in very nature god, he was
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God in a body, never leveraged his position with god to his
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Own advantage.
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He never played the god card one single time.
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His strength was in his self-control.
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His power was in his others' firstness.
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He had so reined in and harnessed himself that he was
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Able to give himself away.
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And then he writes this, talking about jesus.
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"and being found--" look what he says.
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"and being found in appearance," as one of you and one of
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Me--"and being found in appearance as a man,
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He humbled himself."
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He reigned himself in on your behalf.
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He was lion.
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He was lamb.
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And, men, he invites all of us to follow him; to adopt his
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Tone, his posture of humility, his approach to life,
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His script.
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And if we do, we will not all be the same, that's not the goal,
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But we will all be better men and better friends and better
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Fathers and better husbands because we will be like our
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Savior, the super man, the perfect man.
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And if you listen to all this and you think, "okay, andy, it's
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Hard to argue with that, but you gotta be more specific.
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Andy, could you be more specific?"
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Yes, i can next week in part two of "modern men and our
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Ancient scripts."
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Don't miss it.
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Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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You may find it hard to believe that 75 million americans claim
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No religious affiliation.
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On a personal note, perhaps you found it nearly impossible to
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Believe that your son or your daughter or perhaps a grandchild
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Drifted away from faith as part of that number.
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This is a crisis culturally, and perhaps for you it's a
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Crisis personally.
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At "your move," we are committed to addressing that crisis.
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We actually have a plan to solve it, but we need your help.
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We've developed a digital online tool that invites people to take
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A personal assessment that launches them on a journey that
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Eventually intersects their questions with the teaching of
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Jesus and ultimately with a bible-teaching church in
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Their community.
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Tens of thousands of people are currently engaged in this
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Process, but we need your help to continue creating the bread
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Crumbs, the content that keeps them moving forward on their
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Faith journey.
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We're attempting something that no one has ever attempted
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Before, and it is already working.
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To find out more, go to the website or call the number at
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The bottom of the screen.
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And as always, thank you so much for watching,
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And now it's your move.
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♪♪♪
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...
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Andy Stanley - Modern Men (Part 1)

June 12, 2026 | 28:29

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