How
has [a study of Jesus' life and death] affected your views of
masculinity? How can you be more like Jesus? (Serendipity Bible
10th Anniversary Edition, page 1484).
As
a man, I'm glad Jesus cleared the Temple and overturned the tables of
the money changers all the while slamming them with verbal hooks to
the ego. That's the kind of adrenalin I can sink my teeth into.
Unfortunately for my brawl bias, Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
also said “Put away your sword...Those who use the sword will die
by the sword.” Certainly if there were a promising stage for a
bench-clearing brawl, it would have been then.
Well
then, what does Jesus have to teach men? How can we possibly be
persuaded by such statements as love your enemy and turn the other
cheek?
What
we must come to understand is that Jesus was no ordinary man. He had
coolant in his veins. And we have to reluctantly admit, there are
times when cooler heads win. My personal prayer is that in the days
ahead, circumstances will favor cooler heads and that we boys beyond
hope of saving will find salvation nevertheless.
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