With Father’s Day coming up, I’ll link to an old post from Albert Mohler on the marks of a fully mature man. I like these points on thinking and speaking:
A boy must learn how to translate Christian truth into genuine Christian thinking. He must learn how to defend biblical truth before his peers and in the public square, and he must acquire the ability to extend Christian thinking, based on biblical principles, to every arena of life. . . . A man must be able to speak, to be understood and to communicate in a way that will honor God and convey God’s truth to others
In other words, boys can become men in part by learning how to discuss serious issues with a level head–slow to speak, quick to listen, slow to become angry–taking their dialogue cues from wise men in their family or church instead of certain talk radio pundits. I’ll be addressing that subject in my next book, How to Talk about Important Issues Without Getting Upset.
I NEED that book!
I think I could plagiarize a book like that pretty effectively–add a few cartoons to it and irrelevant end notes or afterwards, and I’d have a bestseller.
Actually, if you could write it up in a way that would appeal to teenagers or preteens, you deserve to have a bestseller. Adults are pretty set in their ways, the hearts and minds of the teenagers and preteens is where the culture war will be won or lost.