Presented February 21, 2010
Think of the men you respect the most. The women you respect.
Most likely, something they have in common is a life worth imitating. They are role models.
This podcast gives some practical counsel on how to be a role model.
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Early on, in his book, Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas writes these words.
…most of us who have been married for any substantial length of time realize that the romantic roller coaster of courtship eventually evens out to the terrain of a Midwest interstate – long, flat stretches with an occasional overpass. When this happens, couples respond in different ways. Many will break up their relationship and try to recreate the passionate romance with someone else. Other couples will descend into a sort of marital guerrilla warfare, a passive-aggressive power play as each partner blames the other for personal dissatisfaction or lack of excitement. Some couples decide to simply “get along.” Still others may opt to pursue a deeper meaning, a spiritual trust hidden in the enforce intimacy of the marital situation. (Gary Thomas in Sacred Marriage, pp. 16-17.)
May I encourage you – beg you – to choose to pursue deep intimacy by letting your marriage refine you?
It’s the only way you will have a healthy family.
This sermon addresses family relationship both in the Family of God and in your Family Family.
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Some of the guys in my church are reading a book by Bob Lepine in which he refers to something noted by Robert Lewis:
Real men, according to Lewis, reject passivity, accept responsibility, lead courageously and expect the greater, eternal reward. Lewis rightly asserts that the mantle of leadership laid on men is distorted by the Fall in one of two ways: either a man is a selfish abusive dictator or, more often, he is a passive follower who has surrendered his leadership responsibility to the women around him. — Lepine in The Christian Husband, p. 24
Truth.