Lets Elevate our Walk

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Lets Elevate our Walk!

• Luke 51-11

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Wanting To Be Alive!

• Quote from Garrison Keillor This was not a
  great year for guys Guys are in trouble.
  Manhood, once an opportunity for achievement, now
  seems like a problem to overcome. Plato, St.
  Francis, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Vince Lombardi
  you dont find guys of that caliber today

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What you find is a terrible gender anxiety, guys
trying to be Mr. Right, the man who can bake a
cherry pie, go shoot skeet, come back and toss a
salad, converse easily about intimate matters,
cry If need be, laugh, hug, be vulnerable,
perform passionately that night and the next day
lift them bales on to the barge and tote it
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• Being perfect is a terrible way to spend your
  life, and guys not equipped for it anyway. It is
  like a bear riding a bicycle he can be trained
  to do it for short periods, but he would rather
  be in the woods doing what bears do there.

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Think of this one

• From Wild at Heart by John Eldridge
• alas, there the church Christianity, as it
  currently exists, has done some terrible things
  to men. When all is said and done, I think most
  men in the church believe that God put them on
  earth to be a good boy

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• The problem with men, we are told, is that they
  do not know how to keep their promises, be
  spiritual leaders, talk to their wives or raise
  children. But if they try real hard they can
  reach the lofty summit of becoming a nice guy!
  That is what we hold up as models of Christian
  maturity. Really nice guys

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• We dont smoke, drink, or swear thats what
  makes us men. Now let me ask my male readers in
  all your boyhood dreams growing up, did you ever
  dream of becoming a nice guy? Walk into most
  churches in America, look around and ask you self
  the question what is a Christian man? just look
  around some Sunday and see what you see. Bored
  men!

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• He goes on if that kind of man is what you
  want, a sanitized, shallow guy then it is
  contrary to every thing that a man is... the
  heart of a man is driven to the high country,
  like a wounded animal looking for cover we have
  not invited a men to know and live from his
  heart!

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What being elevated looks like!

• vs. 11 Look at the Finished Product!
• vs. 55 Familiar Frustrations!
• vs. 4 Fathom Call!
• Frightening Realities!
• Reality of Invasion/ Common Folk
• Reality of Obedience
• Reality of Brokenness