Leadership
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Books, Prayer, Reflection and Spiritual |Tags: Books, Christian, faith, leadership, Prayer, Reflection, Spiritual, Tender-Warrior
I couldn’t just pick one quote for this week’s readings in Tender Warrior : God’s Intention for a Man. So I chose three to reflect upon.
Following one of the points made in church the other week about hypocrisy and the “log-eye” syndrome (Matthew 7:3-5) is the following quote that highlights the practical aspect of what hypocrisy does in the spiritual life.
If I fail to live as I’m instructed, I undermine my own credibility to remind or teach my family to live as they’re instructed. How can I credibly teach other to obey God if I don’t? Men, you and I need to make sure we are obeying as well, and that we are providing a climate where obedience can flourish.
Stu Weber, Tender Warrior : God’s Intention for a Man, pp. 87-88
The next quote outlines a man’s responsibililty in this world.
Men, as husbands you have been given a trust–a stewardship, a responsibility, a duty–to husband, or manage, or care for the gifts of your wife. If you abuse that trust, you fail at the very heart of your manhood.
Stu Weber, Tender Warrior : God’s Intention for a Man, p. 92
The quote below from C.S. Lewis depicts the struggle and pain of the weight upon which rests on the shoulders of a man.
It is painful, being a man, to have to assert the privilege, or the burden, which Christianity lays upon my own sex. I am crushingly aware of how inadequate most of us are, on our actual and historical individualities, to fill the place prepared for us.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics