Manhood must be conveyed. You do not become a man by growing up or growing a beard, you only become a man when a man confirms your manhood. It is like being knighted or like apostolic succession. You cannot be knighted without a knight to convey the title to you. You cannot be an elder in the church of God without elders ahead and above you to confirm you. You cannot confirm your own arrival. You cannot be trusted to grade our own exam. Without another man, you cannot know that you are a man.
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Fatherlessness is a void that cannot be easily filled. God must by adoption provide fathers where previous men failed or fell short. Boys need men in order to become men. Men must make the time to teach masculinity to boys or we will not have any men. When fathers fail, they provoke their progeny to agent. They leave a lot of boys discouraged and unable to validate themselves through the natural, normal channels that God has provided and so they find synthetic substitutes like gangs or video games.
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