Posts Tagged ‘Masculinity’
Restoring Masculinity: The Balance of the Wise
For the past 6,000 years, since the sin of Adam and Eve, we have lived in a fallen world.
I told a worship leader recently she would be wise to never blame God for bad stuff that happens in life. Blame it on a fallen world and always trust in the perfectly good character of God.
Part of our fallenness stems from life out of balance. We swing pendulums this way and that, being too lenient or being too firm, too hot or cold, or thinking norms now are the way things always were (they’re not).
One such area of imbalance today is the roles/expressions of masculinity and femininity. This is a very recent phenomenon.
Here are some thoughts on restoring masculinity—even in worship.