Reformation Faith Today

Pastor John Piper (Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneappolis) has posted a message he gave last week at a pastor’s luncheon. An excerpt follows:

Last week at a lunch for pastors, I gave a message you can listen to called “Some Sweet Blessings of Masculine Christianity.” I drew out eleven benefits of valuing biblical manhood. Here is my outline:

By “masculine Christianity,” I mean (though words are inadequate):

The theology and the church and the mission are marked by over-arching male leadership and an ethos of tender-hearted strength and contrite courage and risk-taking decisiveness and readiness to sacrifice to protect and provide for the community—the feel of a great, majestic God making the men lovingly strong and the women intelligently secure.

The rest of the outline may be found here and I highly recommend it to you.