RestoringAdam

Reviving, Rebuilding, and Reclaiming Biblical Masculinity , one son of Adam at a time.

[RestoringAdam @RestoringAdam]

I came to the Reformed tradition because it finally made sense.
Theology. History. Conviction.
It gave me fire.
But if someone had shown me this version of Christianity 20 years ago…
I’d still be a pagan.
That’s how bad it is. (1/13)

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If when you breathe your last, the wicked stand and cheer, “well done my good and faithful servant”, will be the next words you will hear.

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@Son_Of_Zebedee_ Well said.

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Justice for them. Mercy for me.

That’s how most of us live.

When someone else fails?
We want judgment.
Exposure.
Consequences.
A lesson learned.

But when we fail?
We want grace.
Understanding.
A second chance.
A clean slate.

We forget:
The scales we use on others…
aren’t the ones we want used on us.

Jesus didn’t say:
“Judge hard and ask for mercy later.”

He said:
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”
(Matt. 5:7)

Justice matters.
But without mercy, it becomes vengeance.

At the cross, justice and mercy met.

Don’t weaponize one and hoard the other.

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This post hits the crux of why most men would rather watch football than go to church:
We’ve castrated the gospel.
We’ve feminized the Bible.
We’ve stripped the danger, the grit, the war, and the epic, and then wonder why men don’t show up.

Read this. Then read your Bible like it was written by a King who calls men to war.

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

People think the Bible is boring.

I was talking to another man one time, explaining my process of teaching the Old Testament and getting people to dig deeper.

At one point, he looked at me in surprise and said “It sounds like you are talking about The Lord of the Rings or something.”

This is a normal reaction given what most people are fed. If you never grew up in the church, you are taught the Bible is a derivative myth, a hodgepodge of stories that is, at best, unimportant. At worst, it is dangerous for people to take seriously.

If you did grow up in the church, you were probably taught a watered-down version that skips a lot of the “troubling” parts of the Old Testament and skips straight to the Jesus stuff (the gospel).

But the Bible is dangerous. It was meant to be dangerous.

Just not in the way the secular world wants you to believe it’s dangerous.

The fact that men, in particular, would find comparisons to Lord of the Rings surprising is a consequence of the feminization of the church.

The modern church has focused on one aspect of the Bible to the detriment of others. It has taught a neutered gospel.

So what is the Bible? And what is the gospel? Let’s push aside the normal platitudes and focus on the epic story being told.

The cross, and the death of Jesus, is the surprising climax of an exciting epic full of blood, battle, and chaos, the rise and fall of kings, dynasties, and empires, the constant clash of good and evil, courageous exploits of men and woman both great and small, wizard duels and superheroes, giants and demons, contests of wit and wisdom, dark political machinations, and the triumph and tragedies of warrior poets.

It is an epic beyond anything the Illiad, the Odyssey, or the Lord of the Rings can offer. And it has the most surprising twist imaginable.

It is also true.

Instead of focusing on the epic, we isolate the cross and the gospel and make it about our personal salvation. While not wrong on the surface, this is too small in scope. The cross is the true king finally coming into his own, after all hope seemed lost, and preparing to reward his friends and smite his enemies…

Instead of focusing on the epic, we made baptism nothing but a cleansing of our own sins. Again, not wrong, and that is glorious in and of itself. But too small in scope. Baptism is also an anointing and ordainment, a declaration of knighthood, where the new man is given a sword and told to go forth and conquer for his new king…

Instead of focusing on the epic, we have made households and churches a refuge from the world. But households and churches are fortresses, advance outposts in the heart of enemy territory, where we train new recruits and from which we launch new offensives…

Instead of focusing on the epic, we create an environment where the rhetoric of the rough prophets of old, and of John the Baptist, Jesus, and Paul, is considered “mean” and “insensitive.” Many church-goers today would scold them for their harsh words. But the imprecatory psalms have as much a place on our lips as the penitent psalms, calling for the overthrow of our enemies…

The cross of Christ is the ultimate call to adventure for any man willing to fight. It is a call for young men to glory in their strength and enthusiasm while storing up plunder for themselves in heaven, instead of working for self-aggrandizement and passing pleasure. It is a call to make the epic a reality and to take your rightful place in it.

And instead, we use the cross to domesticate our men.

We have taught a neutered gospel because a church full of eunuchs is easier to manage.

It is no wonder that men do not flock to the banner and instead turn to other things.

But the Bible is meant to be dangerous, and the cross was meant to create dangerous men.

[RestoringAdam @RestoringAdam]

You can’t have real community without conflict.

If there’s never friction, you’re either in the honeymoon phase, living shallow, or hiding who you really are.

Conflict doesn’t mean failure. It means you’re close enough to matter.

Handle it biblically, or stay fake.

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@ryanmichler Amen.

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🇺🇸 Freedom wasn’t won by vibes. It was bought with blood.

America isn’t perfect. But it’s still a place where men can lead their families, speak the truth, and live free under God.

Celebrate liberty. But more than that, live like a free man.

#IndependenceDay #NoRetreatNoReserveNoRegret

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Your feelings don’t define your fight.
Your pain doesn’t cancel your mission.
Your past doesn’t own your future.

Christ redeemed you for warfare, not wallowing.

Don’t ask the world for permission to be a man.
You already have your orders.

🛡️ Revive. Rebuild. Reclaim.

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The modern man will die for his feelings, but not live for his duties.
He defends every whim like a creed and abandons every creed like a whim.
Give him a cause, and he’ll yawn.
Give him a complaint, and he’ll crusade.

We are not starving for passion.
We are starving for principle.

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@archeofuturist Yes, there are trolls in the ranks. But there are also teachers, tradesmen, and tired fathers rebuilding the ruins.

To reduce the whole thing to “lonely online men” is not discernment, it’s dismissal.

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@FoundationDads Some pain is the consequence of sin. Some is the cost of faithfulness. Some is just life in a fallen world.

But not all pain is oppression. Not all wounds are abuse.

Sometimes you’re not a victim. You’re just soft.

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@uribrito We have exchanged the pulpit for the platform, the pew for the screen, and the parish for pixels, then wondered why our faith feels thin.

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You don’t need another men’s breakfast.
You need battle plans.

You don’t need a group chat.
You need men who’ll call you out and fight beside you.

This isn’t a hobby.
This is war.

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@ryanmichler The virtue of the modern man is to weep openly about the fact that he no longer knows how to wield a sword.

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@Vicar1973 We thought we were watching a circus. But the tent was a temple, and the god being mocked was ours.

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@thisisfoster We say a man is wealthy when he has many servants. God says he is wealthy when he has many sons.

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@StonecuttrStr The modern man eats like a monk, trains like a warrior, and sins like a Roman.

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@fathersreforged Progress has replaced the prison with a classroom and called it liberty. The only difference is that in one, you wear orange. In the other, you wear a backpack.

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@FoundationDads We laugh at ancient tribes for handing their children to the witch doctor. Then we hand ours to the diversity officer.