Second, man is defined by a certain authority, protective responsibility, leadership by example first, and sacrificial gentleness to our wives and children, in the spirit, and empowerment of our benefactor, Jesus Christ.
Thirdly, a man's quality is known in his stand for, and against certain things. As Knights of True North we assert three things...
TRUTH exists.
"IT" can be known.
HE is seeking you.
Truth is not perspective. Truth is fact. Truth is not a passive principle, reserved for the elite, or enlighted. Truth is an active person...Jesus Christ. Jesus identified his purpose on earth in Luke 19:10
"The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which is lost."
Fourthly, we embrace the responsibilty to provide for, and to protect our families, our Chruches, and our Nation from all enemies foreign, and domestic. As such we embrace the martial culture of the knight with a sensitivity to modern conventions.
Fifth, we accept our role a nurturer, and mentor for the next generation of Son's, and Daughters, and strive to do all to the glory of God.
Daughters usually get overlooked within the conversation of what it means to be a man due the fact that their not attempting to be mentored into being "a man" of character...but there are a few reasons why this is a tragic oversight:
1. Daughters can be as formidable allies in the cause of righteousness as a son can be...and frequently young ladies are socially more adept.
2. If we as fathers fail to engage our daughters within our questing for personal character, and the leaving of a legacy, they we've become foolish, and hypocritical, since the vulnerable nature daughters demands a wholesome and healthy mentoring relationship with a father...
Concretely, if we fail to be an adequate father to our daughters, defining all along what is the measure of a man, then what sort of "men" will they choose for husbands? Let us set the bar high and help our daughters demand better for themselves, in their most permanent human relationship.
Son's are vulnerable as well, but in different ways. Young men who do not engage their roles with in the family frequent fall into societally antagonist roles, like gangs, drugs, and illicit sex...If the male drive to provide and protect is not anchored and given wholesome expression, it will, and frequently does find harmful, destructive expression.
And these failing whether in ourselves, or our children, or their relationships has a "nuclear effect" and is "chain reactive"... it tends to be self validating. So, we engage our responsibilities to act as "control rods" to slow the societal "meltdown" we see going on around us every day...that is how we see ourselves as a restraining force against evil, spiritually, societally, and literally. If this isn't what defines a man, well then, it should be, and perhaps together, we can call such an identity into being. Let's walk together, you and I.