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Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. What is at the heart of godly masculinity? We\u2019re going to explore that subject today. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition. I got up this morning; and I thought, \u201cWhat will Dennis wear?\u201d I thought: \u201cI don\u2019t have any camo. I don\u2019t have camo to come to the studio.\u201d I figured you\u2019d be\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> We\u2019re not talking about hunting. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> No, not hunting. Then, I thought, \u201cMaybe, if I put on a jersey\u2014some kind of a pro football jersey\u2014because, you know\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got a flannel shirt on. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That was the best I could come up with. It was either this or my Spurs t-shirt. I thought, \u201cNo, it\u2019s too cold out for the Spurs t-shirt.\u201d So, I wore a little flannel because I thought: \u201cWe\u2019re going to talk about manhood. We\u2019re going to talk about this Saturday and the big Super Saturday event that\u2019s coming up at churches as men are getting together for the <em>Stepping Up<\/em><sup>\u2122<\/sup> one-day event.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014all over the country. We\u2019ve got a guest here to help us do that\u2014whose book has a foreword by a true man\u2019s man\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014General William Boykin. No doubt about it. Stephen Mansfield joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Stephen, welcome to the broadcast. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It\u2019s great to be with you. Thank you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Stephen is a speaker. He\u2019s a commentator. He\u2019s written a couple of other books\u2014some New York Times<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> best sellers\u2014some contrasts here, I would say\u2014<em>Lincoln\u2019s Battle with God<\/em>\u2014<em>The Search for God and Guinness<\/em>\u2014and <em>The Faith of Barack Obama<\/em>. And this most recent book called <em>The Book of Manly Men<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> <em>Mansfield\u2019s Book of Manly Men<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Excuse me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got as much man in that as we could. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Okay; first, you put your coffee cup on my book; and then, you misquote the title. [Laughter] Man! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m excited about what you\u2019ve written here because we are bullish on men. This Super Saturday\u2014hundreds of groups, across the country, are going to be meeting together on Super Saturday to encourage men\u2014young men, and some boys\u201413-\/14-year-olds, who are still in that boyhood phase\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to call them out, and call them up, and call them to step up. That\u2019s really what this book is about, really. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Absolutely. Yes, you know, I spent a lot of time with young guys on college campuses. They are a little different than us older guys. They\u2019re not as therapeutic. They\u2019re not as, \u201cHeal the wounds.\u201d They just scream at me: \u201cTell me what to do! You\u2019re telling me to be a man. Just tell me what to do!\u201d So, this is the book to answer that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, to that point, let\u2019s say your son\u2014your son is, now, how old? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> My son\u2019s 27. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Twenty-seven years old. Let\u2019s back up a few years. Let\u2019s say he came to you when he was in college; and he said: \u201cDad, what does it mean to be a man? What\u2019s the essence of manhood today?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I would say to him that being a man is something God-given. It\u2019s not just your body. It\u2019s a set of duties, responsibilities, and behaviors that you learn. As you execute them\u2014as you do them, walk through them, observe them, are dutiful to them\u2014God meets you and empowers you. It\u2019s one of the ways that God knows a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> You talk, in the book, about what you call the night you became a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It\u2019s a crazy story. I\u2019ll tell it very, very quickly. I was in the Middle East for some work. My visas got messed up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI ended up stuck in Damascus. I\u2019ve done a lot of work in the Middle East. Believe it or not\u2014sounds strange, in retrospect, now, given what\u2019s going on in Syria\u2014but one of my friends was a member of the Syrian Parliament. He found out that I was stuck. He threw a party in my honor. So, I\u2019m sitting on the roof with a bunch of guys\u2014who\u2019ve got the traditional dress on. Some of them have got body guards, carrying Uzis. There\u2019s food. It\u2019s a beautiful Damascus night. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we can\u2019t communicate very well. It\u2019s a little bit stilted. I don\u2019t speak Arabic. They don\u2019t speak good English. Finally, one of the older men said [Using an accent], \u201cDo you have a son?\u201d I said, \u201cYes, I have a son.\u201d He said, \u201cWhat is his name?\u201d I said, \u201cJonathan.\u201d He said, \u201cWell, then, you have a new name.\u201d He said, \u201cIt\u2019s <em>Abu John<\/em>.\u201d Well, through a bunch of interpretation, and restatements, and everything, I found out that, in the Arab culture, that, when a man has a son, it\u2019s such an honorable thing that they really give him an honorific name. They take <em>Abu<\/em>, which means \u201cfather\u201d in Arabic, and a shortened version of the son\u2019s name. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the father is addressed by the son\u2019s name and \u201cfather\u201d for the rest of his life. So, <em>Abu John<\/em> became my name. Well, now, what happened, at that moment, is that they all thought, \u201cThis is it.\u201d They stood up. They ordered more food. They started to dance. They cranked the music up. They decided, if they couldn\u2019t speak to me, they were going to celebrate the fact that\u2014Arab style\u2014I had just become a father. In their minds, even though my son was 13 and back in the States, I was a father. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe next morning, I got up; and something was different. Now, at that time, I was, maybe, in my forties. I can\u2019t remember my exact age. I had a son, a daughter. I had been a father for more than a decade. I had been a pastor. I\u2019d graduated college\u2014so many things. <em>Never<\/em> had anyone welcomed me to any version of manhood. <em>Never<\/em> had anyone said, \u201cYou\u2019re now a man among us.\u201d Never had anyone said, \u201cWelcome to fatherhood.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey welcomed me to fatherhood, and it just changed me. I came back to the States, and just\u2014aware of two things. First of all, the change that happened in me is they gave me what little, broken, English honor statements they could give me and celebrate it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut then, also, I looked around at all the men I knew; and I thought, \u201cThey\u2019ve not been welcomed\u2014initiated either.\u201d None of them have ever had sort of marking experiences as they make the progression in the journey of manhood. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and had older men, who have blessed them, and said, \u201cYou\u2019re an honorable man\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014in a culture that seems to be dishonoring men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Why do you think the culture has taken on men as it has? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Two reasons: One, I think men have, certainly, set them up for this. You sit there\u2014around the pole in the strip joint\u2014and that\u2019s your big culture. You talk about it all the time. Well, people, listening to you, go, \u201cWell, that\u2019s what your version of manhood is.\u201d I think it is reflected on television. Then, of course, there\u2019s just the wanting to stop on the grave of traditional manhood. In a sense, that\u2019s what our culture is somewhat about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPart of it is spite for manhood. Part of it is men have been dogs. And part of it is that no one in society seems to know what genuine, righteous manhood ought to be. We either have an extreme kind of <em>Braveheart<\/em> thing or we have the kind of bad manhood that\u2019s out there today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut very few\u2014and I certainly would include you gentlemen\u2014who are actually saying, \u201cLet me sound a trumpet call here for what righteous manhood ought to be.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> See, I remember growing up\u2014and the movies would portray one thing. They\u2019d portray Sylvester Stallone or Schwarzenegger\u2014and it\u2019s the action hero. So, you think, \u201cOkay, I guess I\u2019m supposed to be that.\u201d Then, you\u2019d see the really sensitive, kind of almost passive guy\u2014and the women really like him. I just remember confusion about: \u201cWhat is it I\u2019m supposed to be, as a man?\u201d If you take your cues from popular culture, you\u2019ll wind up in the ditch pretty quickly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. And most men grow up dreaming superhero dreams. Then, they end up in the cubicle with a mortgage and the kids. Now, how do you live out noble values? Now, how are you a superhero? So, we either have the extreme thing\u2014someone\u2019s got to jump off a cliff to save somebody\u2014in a movie, or we\u2019ve got the boring thing\u2014which gets most men in trouble. So, how do you live in that excluded middle? I think that\u2019s the key for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m not going to blow this. You have four Mansfield\u2019s Manly Maxims in your book for manly men. Go through those four because I think these kind of provide some rails that we\u2019re talking about for men to kind of ride on toward the horizon and to realize what real manhood is all about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Well, I tell a lot of stories in the book; but I wanted to get these four just absolutely pierced into our brains. The first one is: \u201cManly men do manly things.\u201d I do not want to make manhood all a matter of just duties, and obligations, and boring things; but I think we need to get the focus back on what manhood really is. It is the acceptance of a set of behaviors\u2014things that you do first\u2014and I think many\u2014oftentimes, a man is called to do before he really feels anything or before it seems right\u2014the reverse of what society teaches us. So, I go around emphasizing that manhood is <em>doing<\/em> certain things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, does that mean men hunt\u2014men fish? I mean, I\u2019m just\u2014let me tell you a story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy son came to me one time. He said, \u201cWhen I was in junior high, I was on the youth retreat.\u201d And he said, \u201cThe pastor said: \u2018Now, men, boys and girls are different. Guys like sports, and girls like to read books.\u2019\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Oh, boy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And my son thought: \u201cI like to read books. In fact, I like to read books more than I like sports. Does that mean I\u2019m feminine?\u201d So, this\u2014\u201cMen do manly things,\u201d\u2014what are the manly things you are talking about? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes; I\u2019m not talking about hunting and fishing\u2014all those things that come naturally to us. I\u2019m talking about taking responsibility. I\u2019m talking about tending people. I\u2019m talking about observing the things a man is meant to observe. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll give you a quick example\u2014when I was, maybe, four or five years old, my father, who was a military officer, for the first time, turned to me and said, \u201cSon, get the car door for your mother.\u201d Now, my mother was more capable of taking care of that car door than I was. She was bigger than I was, of course, at five years old. So, I did it. In time, I began to understand: \u201cThis is what a man does. A man\u2014the men\u2014the two men in the family, my father and myself\u2014we care for the women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe tend them. We don\u2019t treat them as less. We get the car door. We take responsibilities. We answer the door. We don\u2019t let strangers come to the house and just engage the women.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re supposed to be\u2014it was really a powerful lesson. The most powerful disciplining I ever got was when I mistreated my sister because \u201ca man takes care of the women in his life.\u201d There\u2019s just one, for example. And you could go on and on; but it\u2019s a matter of <em>duty<\/em> rather than feeling or, primarily, therapy. You understand how I mean that\u2014we all want to see our souls restored\u2014but sometimes, the duties come first. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series for guys, Mark Driscoll tells the story about his young son. A neighbor boy came into the room and said, \u201cYour son hit me;\u201d and he was crying. The parents were there. They looked at Mark like: \u201cWhat\u2019s going to go on? What did your son do?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, Mark went back in; and he talked to his son. He said, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, that boy was going to hurt my sister. I told him, \u2018If you hurt my sister, I will punch you.\u2019 And so, he hurt my sister. So, I punched him.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, Mark walks back into the room and explains to the parents what happened. The parents said, \u201cWell, what are you going to do?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m going to buy my son ice cream.\u201d He said: \u201cThat\u2019s what I want my son to do. I want him to take care of his little sister and to be a protector.\u201d When you talk about manly men do manly things, that\u2019s the kind of stuff you are talking about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. And it\u2019s communicated in very practical ways. I remember, again, my father who was not\u2014certainly had his flaws, as a father\u2014but I remember we walked in the house once. There was a light bulb out. And my experience was that Mom took care of the house. You know how that is\u2014especially, with a military officer father. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father looked at me and said, \u201cWhich one of us is going to replace that light bulb?\u201d And the idea was: \u201cWhatever is going on in this house, we\u2019re responsible. I\u2019m responsible, as the father\/the husband; and I\u2019ve enlisted you.\u201d So, those lessons of duty, of protection, of making sure things are enhanced \/ grown in the best shape they can be in\u2014that the kids are tended. It\u2019s not just a matter of providing a bedroom. It\u2019s making sure their soul\u2014that you are <em>responsible<\/em> and that you have those duties that\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\thonor those that you are responsible for and what have you. It\u2019s a whole set of things\u2014more than we could talk about at any one moment\u2014but the main thing is to get men focused on the fact that it\u2019s the <em>doing<\/em> that is their primary obligation, as men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And that really leads us to your second maxim because, if you\u2019re going to be responsible, you have to be responsible for something\u2014a piece of turf. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You call it a field. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Manly men tend their field. I take it really from where Paul said to the Corinthians, \u201cI\u2019m not going to boast beyond the field assigned to me.\u201d And that field, in Greek, means an actual measured space. He was saying, \u201cI\u2019m not going to boast beyond what God\u2019s given me to do, at this point.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, all men have a field. I don\u2019t mean, personally, own a green grass field; but all men have a field. What is it? It\u2019s my house. It\u2019s my wife. It\u2019s the businesses. It\u2019s the stuff in the house. It\u2019s insurance\u2014life insurance. It\u2019s everything that God has assigned me for this season of my life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s your responsibility\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to tend that field. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. I am responsible. I can\u2019t yield that over to anybody else. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you learned this by being a defensive\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tend? Is that right? Playing football\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014in high school? Or was that college? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I wish it had been college, but it never got that\u2014it was high school. I was tall, and fast, and strong for my age; but I was not very smart. I had a former pro coach. He was very frustrated with me because I could do some things very well, and I just couldn\u2019t keep guys coming around my end. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, he said two things. One was\u2014he grabbed me by the face mask once\u2014drug me out to the side of the line. He said: \u201cLook, this is your field. Nothing comes through here. Nobody does anything through here without your permission. Own it. Control it. Repel all enemies.\u201d Okay\u2014put it in <em>Star Trek<\/em> language. I understand it. But then, I still blew it in a game. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, he had me meet him at that practice field\u2014on a Monday morning in October, in Iowa, freezing. He handed me a pair of scissors: \u201cThis is your field. Tend it.\u201d So, I had to spend an hour, in the morning, in the cold, snipping the grass of that part of the practice field that I was always required to defend. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen practice came, I began to be more protective of that part of the field. I became a better player. That\u2019s really what we\u2019re asking men to do: Define your field\u2014define, as God defines it, as best you can figure that out\u2014and tend it well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And sometimes, it takes an older man, stepping into our lives, and kind of giving us a pair of scissors, and saying, \u201cYoung man, this is what you are responsible for:\u201d\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cYou\u2019ve got a wife. You\u2019ve got some kids that\u2019ve not been given to anybody else. You\u2019ve got a home. You\u2019ve got to protect it. You\u2019ve got to provide for it. You have to figure out where it\u2019s going and what the vision for it is.\u201d Here is the thing\u2014I think men, in their chests, long for that kind of instruction from older men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> They absolutely do. I think every man wants somebody to come along and say: \u201cLook, let me help you think this through. Let me show you how I see it and how it\u2019s worked for me.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In fact, that\u2019s maxim number three; isn\u2019t it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It is. It is. Manly men make manly men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m 100 percent convinced of that. I\u2019m thankful for seminars, videos, books\u2014all of it. Obviously, I\u2019m invested in all of that; but I\u2019m telling you that what, actually, we need to do for this principle number three\u2014and, I think, in the country, as a whole\u2014is build a culture of manhood\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> \u2014wherever we can\u2014on the job, five guys fishing, in the church, wherever it might be. Build a culture of manhood. A culture of manhood can simply be one guy who\u2019s devoted to being manly. It just becomes a magnetic force for other men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You saw how manly men build manly men\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014when you lived out in West Texas; didn\u2019t you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I sure did. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2014West Texas was a bit of a stretch for me because I was raised in Europe, as the son of an Army officer. When I got to West Texas, these guys would talk about what a man would do. It was really\u2014I mean\u2014you\u2019ve heard that kind of thing [Using Texan accent]: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t believe a man would do that,\u201d and, \u201cI don\u2019t know why a man would\u2026? What kind of man would do that?\u201d\u2014that kind of thing, all the time. <br><br>Well, I wasn\u2019t fully-baked, as a man, even though I was on the other side of college. It helped me. You know, \u201cA real man would never talk to his wife that way.\u201d You know\u2014a guy would get up and leave breakfast. People would be ticked at him. They\u2019d go, \u201cWell, if he was a real man\u2026.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr, \u201cIf he was any kind of man, at all\u2026,\u201d you know, that kind of thing. I loved it! I loved it because, without even knowing it, they were mentoring me in what a man did. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And I think that that is the assignment a lot of men miss. Even at a younger age, he has an assignment to mentor younger men and help them determine what their field is\u2014determine what manhood looks like\u2014and to call them to step up. But a lot of guys don\u2019t realize that that mantle of being a mentor is a God-given responsibility we have the older we get. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. And I\u2019ll tell you, \u201cIt is part of that field that you are called to tend.\u201d Any young, impressionable man, within your reach, is part of your responsibility\u2014not full-time\u2014but, at least, for that moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf the three of us started, right now, telling stories about the time that one comment from one guy, we never met again, made a decisive difference in our lives\u2014it would be astonishing; wouldn\u2019t it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I mean\u2014just walking by a guy\u2014even a conversation I wasn\u2019t part of. Somebody would say something; and I\u2019d go: \u201cWow! That must be what that\u2019s about.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd when that happens, man, it\u2019s transformative. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You remember a guy who came and knocked on your door and said, \u201cC\u2019mon, you\u2019re going with me.\u201d He took you out to\u2014was it visit the elderly? Is that what it was? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Well, I was living in Iowa. I was attending a church\u2014not fully-Christian yet, by any stretch. It was a heavy, heavy snow. And this man, I think, just knew I was bigger than the average guy my age. So, he showed up at the front door. He said, \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d That\u2019s all he said: \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d <br><br>So, I got dressed and went with him. What had happened was we had a lot of elderly in that church. They were all snowed-in and afraid\u2014didn\u2019t have food. Without him hardly saying a word to me, we picked up food\u2014took it. We shoveled snow. We shoveled coal. We did\u2014we stoked firewood\u2014whatever we had to do\u2014worked for 18 hours. He hardly ever spoke to me. When it was done, though\u2014what that I have in my soul: Manly men tend the older ones\u2014tend the generation before us\u2014that kind of thing. And I\u2019ll tell you what: It wordlessly\u2014and that\u2019s why we don\u2019t\u2014I mean, I\u2019m all for\u2014obviously, I\u2019m a talker, and I\u2019m speaker, and do media. I believe in words, but I\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\talso believe in the powerful, powerful lesson of example that can only happen when you\u2019re in community together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you also believe in what Genesis, Chapter 1, talks about how man was made in the image of God. That\u2019s your fourth maxim. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes, my fourth maxim is: \u201cManly men live to the glory of God.\u201d And the reason is\u2014I don\u2019t think, first of all, that we are ever going to have enough applause or approval in this life for the things we\u2019re called to do. A lot of men are sitting around, waiting for somebody to applaud every time they do something. I\u2019m living for the applause of heaven. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecond of all, I need the supernatural grace and empowerment to tend my wife\/my children, to have the wisdom for the business affairs, take care of my family. I need God\u2019s involvement. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think the third thing is that, when men do what they\u2019re made to do, God gets involved. That\u2019s how they meet God. That\u2019s how they kind of know Him. I mean, there are other ways in prayer and worship and so on; but when you do what you are made to do, that\u2019s where the Lord intersects with your life. So, live to the glory of God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And a lot of men miss it because they think\u2014football, or some sport, or achievement in a career,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tor accumulation, or possessions\u2014that somehow that\u2019s the defining part of being a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, you remember Voddie Baucham in the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series. He says: \u201cMen tend to define manhood around the three B\u2019s. It\u2019s the boardroom, the bedroom, and the ball field.\u201d I think he\u2019s kind of narrowed it down. I\u2019d add the billfold in that because I think some guys\u2014\u201cHow fats your billfold?\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014the billfold is: \u201cHow manly are you?\u201d But we really do have to recalibrate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A man who doesn\u2019t evaluate his life, really, under the authority of God\u2014the fear of God, the love of God, the grace of God\u2014because it takes all of them\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014is really missing life as God intended it for him, as a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. He\u2019s missing the fact that God wants to partner with him as he takes these responsibilities\u2014tends his field\u2014does the things he\u2019s called to do. At the same time, he\u2019s setting himself up because the cancer for most men is boredom. So, when we define manhood as you just have, in terms of those B\u2019s, well, that\u2019s all exceptional stuff. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, you\u2019re not going to live your whole life on a baseball diamond. You\u2019re not going to live your whole life on the big hunting trip or whatever. Those are exceptions. But day to day, guys are living in offices. They\u2019ve got to take care of the boring stuff at home; but I think that stuff gets transformed when it becomes the field assigned to you and when you realize God wants to meet you there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> We can sum up what we\u2019ve talked about here by looking at a passage where Paul kind of summed it up, too, in First Corinthians, Chapter 16, verse 13 and 14. He said: \u201cBe watchful. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.\u201d I love that passage because there is [Pounding noise] the chest thump\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014of \u201cAct like a man\u201d; but there\u2019s also the responsibility\u2014and there\u2019s also the tender side \/ the relational instruction\u2014\u201cLet all that you do be done in love.\u201d It never takes advantage of people\u2014it\u2019s always realizing\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tthat a part of the field we have are the human beings and the people that we\u2019ve been given the responsibility to care for. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And the truth is\u2014whether we are 14, or 40, whatever age\u2014we\u2019re all in process\u2014learning, growing, developing, understanding more and more what God is calling us to, as men. And Stephen, in the book that you\u2019ve written, you help guys get their arms around the core character issues that define noble, godly masculinity. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got copies of <em>Mansfield\u2019s Book of Manly Men<\/em> in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. You can go, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about how to get a copy of the book. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to order a copy of the book. We\u2019ll make arrangements to get it sent out to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to the website, FamilyLifeToday.com, there\u2019s more information there about\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSuper Saturday\u2014this Saturday\u2014thousands of guys getting together, all across the country, in different locations, for a one-day Super Saturday <em>Stepping Up<\/em> event. Guys rallying to talk about what we\u2019ve been talking about here\u2014\u201cWhat defines biblical, godly masculinity?\u201d If you\u2019d like to find out where there\u2019s an event happening in your community, go to FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you would like to take part in this event\u2014at home with your sons or with just a group of guys in your living room\u2014we have the <em>Stepping Up @ Home <\/em>edition. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about how you can take part in the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> Super Saturday event, either in your community or in your living room. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com for more information. Just click on the link you see there for <em>Stepping Up<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, I want to take just a minute and make sure I say, \u201cThank you,\u201d Dennis, to the folks who make <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> possible\u2014folks who are praying and cheering us on\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tand those of you who help support this ministry. <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is listener-supported. In fact, more than 60 percent of the funding that we need to operate this ministry comes from folks, like you, who make donations\u2014either on a regular basis or from time to time\u2014just to say that you are standing with us and that you believe in what we\u2019re doing. We\u2019re grateful for that financial support. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis month, if you can help with a donation, we\u2019d like to send you, as a thank-you gift, a copy of Dennis and Barbara Rainey\u2019s book, <em>Rekindling the Romance<\/em>, designed to help husbands and wives recapture the delight of marital love. All you have to do is go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the button that says, \u201cI CARE\u201d; make an online donation. We\u2019ll get a copy of that book sent to you. Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY. Make your donation over the phone, and ask for a copy of the book, <em>Rekindling the Romance<\/em>. When you do, we are happy to send it out to you. Or you can mail a check to us at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Our mailing address is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tP O Box 7111, Little Rock, AR. Our zip code is 72223. And we\u2019re always glad to hear from you. Make sure you ask for a copy of the book, <em>Rekindling the Romance<\/em>, when you mail your donation to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you can join us back again tomorrow. Stephen Mansfield\u2019s going to be here. We\u2019re going to continue talking about godly manhood. What does real masculinity look like? I hope you can tune in for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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We\u2019re going to talk about this Saturday and the big Super Saturday event that\u2019s coming up at churches as men are getting together for the <em>Stepping Up<\/em><sup>\u2122<\/sup> one-day event.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014all over the country. We\u2019ve got a guest here to help us do that\u2014whose book has a foreword by a true man\u2019s man\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014General William Boykin. No doubt about it. Stephen Mansfield joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Stephen, welcome to the broadcast. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It\u2019s great to be with you. Thank you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Stephen is a speaker. He\u2019s a commentator. He\u2019s written a couple of other books\u2014some New York Times<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> best sellers\u2014some contrasts here, I would say\u2014<em>Lincoln\u2019s Battle with God<\/em>\u2014<em>The Search for God and Guinness<\/em>\u2014and <em>The Faith of Barack Obama<\/em>. And this most recent book called <em>The Book of Manly Men<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> <em>Mansfield\u2019s Book of Manly Men<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Excuse me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got as much man in that as we could. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Okay; first, you put your coffee cup on my book; and then, you misquote the title. [Laughter] Man! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m excited about what you\u2019ve written here because we are bullish on men. This Super Saturday\u2014hundreds of groups, across the country, are going to be meeting together on Super Saturday to encourage men\u2014young men, and some boys\u201413-\/14-year-olds, who are still in that boyhood phase\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to call them out, and call them up, and call them to step up. That\u2019s really what this book is about, really. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Absolutely. Yes, you know, I spent a lot of time with young guys on college campuses. They are a little different than us older guys. They\u2019re not as therapeutic. They\u2019re not as, \u201cHeal the wounds.\u201d They just scream at me: \u201cTell me what to do! You\u2019re telling me to be a man. Just tell me what to do!\u201d So, this is the book to answer that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, to that point, let\u2019s say your son\u2014your son is, now, how old? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> My son\u2019s 27. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Twenty-seven years old. Let\u2019s back up a few years. Let\u2019s say he came to you when he was in college; and he said: \u201cDad, what does it mean to be a man? What\u2019s the essence of manhood today?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I would say to him that being a man is something God-given. It\u2019s not just your body. It\u2019s a set of duties, responsibilities, and behaviors that you learn. As you execute them\u2014as you do them, walk through them, observe them, are dutiful to them\u2014God meets you and empowers you. It\u2019s one of the ways that God knows a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> You talk, in the book, about what you call the night you became a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It\u2019s a crazy story. I\u2019ll tell it very, very quickly. I was in the Middle East for some work. My visas got messed up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI ended up stuck in Damascus. I\u2019ve done a lot of work in the Middle East. Believe it or not\u2014sounds strange, in retrospect, now, given what\u2019s going on in Syria\u2014but one of my friends was a member of the Syrian Parliament. He found out that I was stuck. He threw a party in my honor. So, I\u2019m sitting on the roof with a bunch of guys\u2014who\u2019ve got the traditional dress on. Some of them have got body guards, carrying Uzis. There\u2019s food. It\u2019s a beautiful Damascus night. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we can\u2019t communicate very well. It\u2019s a little bit stilted. I don\u2019t speak Arabic. They don\u2019t speak good English. Finally, one of the older men said [Using an accent], \u201cDo you have a son?\u201d I said, \u201cYes, I have a son.\u201d He said, \u201cWhat is his name?\u201d I said, \u201cJonathan.\u201d He said, \u201cWell, then, you have a new name.\u201d He said, \u201cIt\u2019s <em>Abu John<\/em>.\u201d Well, through a bunch of interpretation, and restatements, and everything, I found out that, in the Arab culture, that, when a man has a son, it\u2019s such an honorable thing that they really give him an honorific name. They take <em>Abu<\/em>, which means \u201cfather\u201d in Arabic, and a shortened version of the son\u2019s name. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the father is addressed by the son\u2019s name and \u201cfather\u201d for the rest of his life. So, <em>Abu John<\/em> became my name. Well, now, what happened, at that moment, is that they all thought, \u201cThis is it.\u201d They stood up. They ordered more food. They started to dance. They cranked the music up. They decided, if they couldn\u2019t speak to me, they were going to celebrate the fact that\u2014Arab style\u2014I had just become a father. In their minds, even though my son was 13 and back in the States, I was a father. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe next morning, I got up; and something was different. Now, at that time, I was, maybe, in my forties. I can\u2019t remember my exact age. I had a son, a daughter. I had been a father for more than a decade. I had been a pastor. I\u2019d graduated college\u2014so many things. <em>Never<\/em> had anyone welcomed me to any version of manhood. <em>Never<\/em> had anyone said, \u201cYou\u2019re now a man among us.\u201d Never had anyone said, \u201cWelcome to fatherhood.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey welcomed me to fatherhood, and it just changed me. I came back to the States, and just\u2014aware of two things. First of all, the change that happened in me is they gave me what little, broken, English honor statements they could give me and celebrate it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut then, also, I looked around at all the men I knew; and I thought, \u201cThey\u2019ve not been welcomed\u2014initiated either.\u201d None of them have ever had sort of marking experiences as they make the progression in the journey of manhood. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and had older men, who have blessed them, and said, \u201cYou\u2019re an honorable man\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014in a culture that seems to be dishonoring men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Why do you think the culture has taken on men as it has? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Two reasons: One, I think men have, certainly, set them up for this. You sit there\u2014around the pole in the strip joint\u2014and that\u2019s your big culture. You talk about it all the time. Well, people, listening to you, go, \u201cWell, that\u2019s what your version of manhood is.\u201d I think it is reflected on television. Then, of course, there\u2019s just the wanting to stop on the grave of traditional manhood. In a sense, that\u2019s what our culture is somewhat about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPart of it is spite for manhood. Part of it is men have been dogs. And part of it is that no one in society seems to know what genuine, righteous manhood ought to be. We either have an extreme kind of <em>Braveheart<\/em> thing or we have the kind of bad manhood that\u2019s out there today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut very few\u2014and I certainly would include you gentlemen\u2014who are actually saying, \u201cLet me sound a trumpet call here for what righteous manhood ought to be.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> See, I remember growing up\u2014and the movies would portray one thing. They\u2019d portray Sylvester Stallone or Schwarzenegger\u2014and it\u2019s the action hero. So, you think, \u201cOkay, I guess I\u2019m supposed to be that.\u201d Then, you\u2019d see the really sensitive, kind of almost passive guy\u2014and the women really like him. I just remember confusion about: \u201cWhat is it I\u2019m supposed to be, as a man?\u201d If you take your cues from popular culture, you\u2019ll wind up in the ditch pretty quickly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. And most men grow up dreaming superhero dreams. Then, they end up in the cubicle with a mortgage and the kids. Now, how do you live out noble values? Now, how are you a superhero? So, we either have the extreme thing\u2014someone\u2019s got to jump off a cliff to save somebody\u2014in a movie, or we\u2019ve got the boring thing\u2014which gets most men in trouble. So, how do you live in that excluded middle? I think that\u2019s the key for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m not going to blow this. You have four Mansfield\u2019s Manly Maxims in your book for manly men. Go through those four because I think these kind of provide some rails that we\u2019re talking about for men to kind of ride on toward the horizon and to realize what real manhood is all about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Well, I tell a lot of stories in the book; but I wanted to get these four just absolutely pierced into our brains. The first one is: \u201cManly men do manly things.\u201d I do not want to make manhood all a matter of just duties, and obligations, and boring things; but I think we need to get the focus back on what manhood really is. It is the acceptance of a set of behaviors\u2014things that you do first\u2014and I think many\u2014oftentimes, a man is called to do before he really feels anything or before it seems right\u2014the reverse of what society teaches us. So, I go around emphasizing that manhood is <em>doing<\/em> certain things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, does that mean men hunt\u2014men fish? I mean, I\u2019m just\u2014let me tell you a story. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy son came to me one time. He said, \u201cWhen I was in junior high, I was on the youth retreat.\u201d And he said, \u201cThe pastor said: \u2018Now, men, boys and girls are different. Guys like sports, and girls like to read books.\u2019\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Oh, boy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And my son thought: \u201cI like to read books. In fact, I like to read books more than I like sports. Does that mean I\u2019m feminine?\u201d So, this\u2014\u201cMen do manly things,\u201d\u2014what are the manly things you are talking about? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes; I\u2019m not talking about hunting and fishing\u2014all those things that come naturally to us. I\u2019m talking about taking responsibility. I\u2019m talking about tending people. I\u2019m talking about observing the things a man is meant to observe. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll give you a quick example\u2014when I was, maybe, four or five years old, my father, who was a military officer, for the first time, turned to me and said, \u201cSon, get the car door for your mother.\u201d Now, my mother was more capable of taking care of that car door than I was. She was bigger than I was, of course, at five years old. So, I did it. In time, I began to understand: \u201cThis is what a man does. A man\u2014the men\u2014the two men in the family, my father and myself\u2014we care for the women.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe tend them. We don\u2019t treat them as less. We get the car door. We take responsibilities. We answer the door. We don\u2019t let strangers come to the house and just engage the women.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re supposed to be\u2014it was really a powerful lesson. The most powerful disciplining I ever got was when I mistreated my sister because \u201ca man takes care of the women in his life.\u201d There\u2019s just one, for example. And you could go on and on; but it\u2019s a matter of <em>duty<\/em> rather than feeling or, primarily, therapy. You understand how I mean that\u2014we all want to see our souls restored\u2014but sometimes, the duties come first. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series for guys, Mark Driscoll tells the story about his young son. A neighbor boy came into the room and said, \u201cYour son hit me;\u201d and he was crying. The parents were there. They looked at Mark like: \u201cWhat\u2019s going to go on? What did your son do?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, Mark went back in; and he talked to his son. He said, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, that boy was going to hurt my sister. I told him, \u2018If you hurt my sister, I will punch you.\u2019 And so, he hurt my sister. So, I punched him.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, Mark walks back into the room and explains to the parents what happened. The parents said, \u201cWell, what are you going to do?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m going to buy my son ice cream.\u201d He said: \u201cThat\u2019s what I want my son to do. I want him to take care of his little sister and to be a protector.\u201d When you talk about manly men do manly things, that\u2019s the kind of stuff you are talking about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. And it\u2019s communicated in very practical ways. I remember, again, my father who was not\u2014certainly had his flaws, as a father\u2014but I remember we walked in the house once. There was a light bulb out. And my experience was that Mom took care of the house. You know how that is\u2014especially, with a military officer father. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy father looked at me and said, \u201cWhich one of us is going to replace that light bulb?\u201d And the idea was: \u201cWhatever is going on in this house, we\u2019re responsible. I\u2019m responsible, as the father\/the husband; and I\u2019ve enlisted you.\u201d So, those lessons of duty, of protection, of making sure things are enhanced \/ grown in the best shape they can be in\u2014that the kids are tended. It\u2019s not just a matter of providing a bedroom. It\u2019s making sure their soul\u2014that you are <em>responsible<\/em> and that you have those duties that\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\thonor those that you are responsible for and what have you. It\u2019s a whole set of things\u2014more than we could talk about at any one moment\u2014but the main thing is to get men focused on the fact that it\u2019s the <em>doing<\/em> that is their primary obligation, as men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And that really leads us to your second maxim because, if you\u2019re going to be responsible, you have to be responsible for something\u2014a piece of turf. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You call it a field. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Manly men tend their field. I take it really from where Paul said to the Corinthians, \u201cI\u2019m not going to boast beyond the field assigned to me.\u201d And that field, in Greek, means an actual measured space. He was saying, \u201cI\u2019m not going to boast beyond what God\u2019s given me to do, at this point.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, all men have a field. I don\u2019t mean, personally, own a green grass field; but all men have a field. What is it? It\u2019s my house. It\u2019s my wife. It\u2019s the businesses. It\u2019s the stuff in the house. It\u2019s insurance\u2014life insurance. It\u2019s everything that God has assigned me for this season of my life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s your responsibility\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to tend that field. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Exactly. I am responsible. I can\u2019t yield that over to anybody else. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you learned this by being a defensive\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tend? Is that right? Playing football\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014in high school? Or was that college? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I wish it had been college, but it never got that\u2014it was high school. I was tall, and fast, and strong for my age; but I was not very smart. I had a former pro coach. He was very frustrated with me because I could do some things very well, and I just couldn\u2019t keep guys coming around my end. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, he said two things. One was\u2014he grabbed me by the face mask once\u2014drug me out to the side of the line. He said: \u201cLook, this is your field. Nothing comes through here. Nobody does anything through here without your permission. Own it. Control it. Repel all enemies.\u201d Okay\u2014put it in <em>Star Trek<\/em> language. I understand it. But then, I still blew it in a game. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, he had me meet him at that practice field\u2014on a Monday morning in October, in Iowa, freezing. He handed me a pair of scissors: \u201cThis is your field. Tend it.\u201d So, I had to spend an hour, in the morning, in the cold, snipping the grass of that part of the practice field that I was always required to defend. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen practice came, I began to be more protective of that part of the field. I became a better player. That\u2019s really what we\u2019re asking men to do: Define your field\u2014define, as God defines it, as best you can figure that out\u2014and tend it well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And sometimes, it takes an older man, stepping into our lives, and kind of giving us a pair of scissors, and saying, \u201cYoung man, this is what you are responsible for:\u201d\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cYou\u2019ve got a wife. You\u2019ve got some kids that\u2019ve not been given to anybody else. You\u2019ve got a home. You\u2019ve got to protect it. You\u2019ve got to provide for it. You have to figure out where it\u2019s going and what the vision for it is.\u201d Here is the thing\u2014I think men, in their chests, long for that kind of instruction from older men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> They absolutely do. I think every man wants somebody to come along and say: \u201cLook, let me help you think this through. Let me show you how I see it and how it\u2019s worked for me.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In fact, that\u2019s maxim number three; isn\u2019t it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> It is. It is. Manly men make manly men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m 100 percent convinced of that. I\u2019m thankful for seminars, videos, books\u2014all of it. Obviously, I\u2019m invested in all of that; but I\u2019m telling you that what, actually, we need to do for this principle number three\u2014and, I think, in the country, as a whole\u2014is build a culture of manhood\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> \u2014wherever we can\u2014on the job, five guys fishing, in the church, wherever it might be. Build a culture of manhood. A culture of manhood can simply be one guy who\u2019s devoted to being manly. It just becomes a magnetic force for other men. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You saw how manly men build manly men\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014when you lived out in West Texas; didn\u2019t you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I sure did. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2014West Texas was a bit of a stretch for me because I was raised in Europe, as the son of an Army officer. When I got to West Texas, these guys would talk about what a man would do. It was really\u2014I mean\u2014you\u2019ve heard that kind of thing [Using Texan accent]: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t believe a man would do that,\u201d and, \u201cI don\u2019t know why a man would\u2026? What kind of man would do that?\u201d\u2014that kind of thing, all the time. <br><br>Well, I wasn\u2019t fully-baked, as a man, even though I was on the other side of college. It helped me. You know, \u201cA real man would never talk to his wife that way.\u201d You know\u2014a guy would get up and leave breakfast. People would be ticked at him. They\u2019d go, \u201cWell, if he was a real man\u2026.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr, \u201cIf he was any kind of man, at all\u2026,\u201d you know, that kind of thing. I loved it! I loved it because, without even knowing it, they were mentoring me in what a man did. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And I think that that is the assignment a lot of men miss. Even at a younger age, he has an assignment to mentor younger men and help them determine what their field is\u2014determine what manhood looks like\u2014and to call them to step up. But a lot of guys don\u2019t realize that that mantle of being a mentor is a God-given responsibility we have the older we get. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. And I\u2019ll tell you, \u201cIt is part of that field that you are called to tend.\u201d Any young, impressionable man, within your reach, is part of your responsibility\u2014not full-time\u2014but, at least, for that moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf the three of us started, right now, telling stories about the time that one comment from one guy, we never met again, made a decisive difference in our lives\u2014it would be astonishing; wouldn\u2019t it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> I mean\u2014just walking by a guy\u2014even a conversation I wasn\u2019t part of. Somebody would say something; and I\u2019d go: \u201cWow! That must be what that\u2019s about.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd when that happens, man, it\u2019s transformative. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You remember a guy who came and knocked on your door and said, \u201cC\u2019mon, you\u2019re going with me.\u201d He took you out to\u2014was it visit the elderly? Is that what it was? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Well, I was living in Iowa. I was attending a church\u2014not fully-Christian yet, by any stretch. It was a heavy, heavy snow. And this man, I think, just knew I was bigger than the average guy my age. So, he showed up at the front door. He said, \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d That\u2019s all he said: \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d <br><br>So, I got dressed and went with him. What had happened was we had a lot of elderly in that church. They were all snowed-in and afraid\u2014didn\u2019t have food. Without him hardly saying a word to me, we picked up food\u2014took it. We shoveled snow. We shoveled coal. We did\u2014we stoked firewood\u2014whatever we had to do\u2014worked for 18 hours. He hardly ever spoke to me. When it was done, though\u2014what that I have in my soul: Manly men tend the older ones\u2014tend the generation before us\u2014that kind of thing. And I\u2019ll tell you what: It wordlessly\u2014and that\u2019s why we don\u2019t\u2014I mean, I\u2019m all for\u2014obviously, I\u2019m a talker, and I\u2019m speaker, and do media. I believe in words, but I\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\talso believe in the powerful, powerful lesson of example that can only happen when you\u2019re in community together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And you also believe in what Genesis, Chapter 1, talks about how man was made in the image of God. That\u2019s your fourth maxim. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes, my fourth maxim is: \u201cManly men live to the glory of God.\u201d And the reason is\u2014I don\u2019t think, first of all, that we are ever going to have enough applause or approval in this life for the things we\u2019re called to do. A lot of men are sitting around, waiting for somebody to applaud every time they do something. I\u2019m living for the applause of heaven. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecond of all, I need the supernatural grace and empowerment to tend my wife\/my children, to have the wisdom for the business affairs, take care of my family. I need God\u2019s involvement. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think the third thing is that, when men do what they\u2019re made to do, God gets involved. That\u2019s how they meet God. That\u2019s how they kind of know Him. I mean, there are other ways in prayer and worship and so on; but when you do what you are made to do, that\u2019s where the Lord intersects with your life. So, live to the glory of God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And a lot of men miss it because they think\u2014football, or some sport, or achievement in a career,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tor accumulation, or possessions\u2014that somehow that\u2019s the defining part of being a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, you remember Voddie Baucham in the <em>Stepping Up<\/em> video series. He says: \u201cMen tend to define manhood around the three B\u2019s. It\u2019s the boardroom, the bedroom, and the ball field.\u201d I think he\u2019s kind of narrowed it down. I\u2019d add the billfold in that because I think some guys\u2014\u201cHow fats your billfold?\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014the billfold is: \u201cHow manly are you?\u201d But we really do have to recalibrate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A man who doesn\u2019t evaluate his life, really, under the authority of God\u2014the fear of God, the love of God, the grace of God\u2014because it takes all of them\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014is really missing life as God intended it for him, as a man. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. He\u2019s missing the fact that God wants to partner with him as he takes these responsibilities\u2014tends his field\u2014does the things he\u2019s called to do. At the same time, he\u2019s setting himself up because the cancer for most men is boredom. So, when we define manhood as you just have, in terms of those B\u2019s, well, that\u2019s all exceptional stuff. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, you\u2019re not going to live your whole life on a baseball diamond. You\u2019re not going to live your whole life on the big hunting trip or whatever. Those are exceptions. But day to day, guys are living in offices. They\u2019ve got to take care of the boring stuff at home; but I think that stuff gets transformed when it becomes the field assigned to you and when you realize God wants to meet you there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> We can sum up what we\u2019ve talked about here by looking at a passage where Paul kind of summed it up, too, in First Corinthians, Chapter 16, verse 13 and 14. He said: \u201cBe watchful. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.\u201d I love that passage because there is [Pounding noise] the chest thump\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Stephen:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014of \u201cAct like a man\u201d; but there\u2019s also the responsibility\u2014and there\u2019s also the tender side \/ the relational instruction\u2014\u201cLet all that you do be done in love.\u201d It never takes advantage of people\u2014it\u2019s always realizing\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tthat a part of the field we have are the human beings and the people that we\u2019ve been given the responsibility to care for. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And the truth is\u2014whether we are 14, or 40, whatever age\u2014we\u2019re all in process\u2014learning, growing, developing, understanding more and more what God is calling us to, as men. And Stephen, in the book that you\u2019ve written, you help guys get their arms around the core character issues that define noble, godly masculinity. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got copies of <em>Mansfield\u2019s Book of Manly Men<\/em> in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. You can go, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information about how to get a copy of the book. Again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to order a copy of the book. We\u2019ll make arrangements to get it sent out to you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to the website, FamilyLifeToday.com, there\u2019s more information there about\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSuper Saturday\u2014this Saturday\u2014thousands of guys getting together, all across the country, in different locations, for a one-day Super Saturday <em>Stepping Up<\/em> event. 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