Gentle Men as Fathers and Husbands
No doubt there is much confusion in our society about what a man really is. Jesus was and is the embodiment of a real man, and Jesus was gentle. Jesus was neither the brute nor a wimp. In fact, most definitions and pictures of Jesus fail to describe him as he truly is described in Scripture. He was and is the real man, and he is gentle.
This article, The Crisis of Masculinity in a Postmodern Age is one that ought to be read by those who are seeking to define and understand masculinity.
Paul Maxwell of SelfWire.org writes,
Our initial definition of masculinity will be this:
Masculinity is a man’s maximization of his potential for competence.
There are three simple elements to this definition — maximization, potential, and competence. They make sense of one another in reverse order.
