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Where Are the Real Men?

September 30, 2008 in Christian Worldview by Isaiah | No comments

The recent debate on gender roles, from the Christian perspective, in response to Sarah Palin’s election as the running mate to John McCain gave me much food for thought, especially that of the role of men today.

For awhile now, I have been observing and bemoaning the fact that much of Christendom has been feminized to such an extent that there aren’t many Christian men today whom we can certainly call true leaders both at home and in church.

My point is this: that if Christian women are to be godly women, then it follows that we must have godly men who will fulfill the roles that God has ordained them to be in. As the ones ordained to be the leaders both at home and in church, if we men are not godly, it will follow that the women we lead, no matter if we like or admit it, will more than likely not fulfill their godly responsibilities.

I’ve yet to put much of my thoughts on this down, but as a start I am sharing this video on the issue, taken from the TV show Wretched.

Who Are We? An Open Letter to Men

August 31, 2008 in Christian Living by Isaiah | No comments

My good brother Samuel at A Lion Has Roared! has written a great post that made me examine myself and my Christian life. I definitely am not doing justice to his piece with this short introduction, so all I pray is that you, men and women, go read it today.

Men, my brothers, it is indeed my prayer that some of you will hear these words anew, that they might be fresh like that first crisp taste of fall after a long, dry summer. For others, it is also my prayer that these words would be safely familiar — like the sight of smoke from the home place chimney after a long journey away from home — it may be well known, but never before appreciated so greatly. For the rest, these words might sting and make you uncomfortable. In that case, comfortable is the last thing I would want you to be. I pray that you all will be enabled to grasp the severity of the words at hand, and that by them you will not be cowed, but rather convinced. As you read this, as soon as your mind starts to think to itself, “ah! That sure describes those people…” Stop. I am not writing to get “amens”. I am not writing to make a sensation. I am writing to bring about conviction. I might be writing about you, whoever, and wherever you may be. So keep that at the back of your mind as you read on. As soon as you think I have described the “others”, I have already described you.

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A Seminar On the Christian Man and the Christian Woman

July 22, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | No comments

I received an email on an interesting seminar organized by First Evangelical Reformed Church (FERC) that I thought might interest some of you here in Singapore:

A Seminar On The Christian Man And The Christian Woman

Topic: The Christian Man & the Christian Woman (Part 1: Biblical Masculinity; Part 2: Biblical Femininity)
Speaker: Pastor Chris Coleborn*
Date: 26 Jul 08 (this Saturday)
Time: 4 - 6 pm
Place: FERC, 652, Yio Chu Kang Road.

Admission is FREE. If you are keen to attend, just email bengkui [at] pacific [dot] net [dot] sg by 24 Jul, Thursday, indicating your (1) name; (2) church; (3) number of persons attending.
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* Pastor Chris Coleborn is a minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. His theological training was in both the Reformed Theological College of Geelong and the Collegiate of the EPCA. He served in the EPCA in Tasmania for 5 years, in Brisbane Queensland for 20 years and has been a minister in Cohuna, Victoria for 12 years. His wife of 29 years is Christine and they have been blessed with 7 children – 6 on earth and 1 in heaven. He is now semi-retired, but still active in preaching and teaching ministry.

My wife and I will be attending. If you are keen and have registered as well, drop us a note here; perhaps we can have some fellowship after.

This information is passed on with full permission from Beng Kui.

Be A Man, Do the Right Thing!

March 26, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | 4 comments

A Soldier and His Wife, by Sherlock77That line comes from a performance by one of my favorite comedians Russell Peters but, jokes aside, it gives occasion to think about what the role of men is in today’s world is, especially in the Christian context.

I have always maintained that, outside of the workplace, we continually see manhood eroded by society where men are told that in order to be acceptable they have to embrace their ‘feminine’ side, i.e. the ‘feminization’ of manhood. In response, we now see a plethora of skin-care products and even make-up for men!

Of course, there’s also the stoic approach to being a man — you shall not cry, you shall remain aloof, you shall endeavor to be Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind and mouth off “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a d**n”, or take Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character as your role model, etc.

It is my position that both approaches are extreme and might even be wrong when seen from a Biblical perspective. What, then, does it mean to be a man?

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