Brothers Stand Firm - Seven Things Every Man Should Know Practice and Invest in the Next Generation

There are pivotal moments in history when the trajectory of marriages, families, businesses, movements, and nations could go one way or another, producing very different outcomes. This is such a moment for the church in America. The need of our generation is the same as every other: a disciplined army of credible men who know, practice, and invest seven things in the next generation. This book is designed to help men get started in this most important adventure of their lives.

Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781625646842

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Steve Bateman has studied at Columbia International University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of Which 'Real' Jesus?: Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and the Early American Roots of the Current Debate (Wipf & Stock, 2008). He is the Senior Pastor of First Bible Church, a multi-site church meeting in Decatur and Madison, AL.

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Brothers, Stand Firm! (BSF) is an exhortation to embrace Christian manhood. It is a systematic, thoughtful guide for Christian men to understand themselves, each other, and their roles in church leadership. The book is written to address the current dissonance between secular culture and the Christian man, a conflict which has driven men from the church in record numbers.The book is written from a Reformed Calvinistic, conservative point of view. Arminian-minded believers will surely find the text accommodating, while culturally progressive Christians may find points of contention with Bateman's traditional views on marriage and complementarianism. BSF is probably best digested as a chapter study. A brisk cover-to-cover read likely will not service the reader, as the chapters are seeded with verses, citations, questions and challenges. An ideal use would seem to be as text for a men's study or small group, where the presented ideas can be hashed out and discussed at a slower pace. Literary fat and gristle have been trimmed; the endless anecdotes that sometimes choke similar Christian works have been kept to a minimum here. This seems by design, as Bateman has worked to hold each section to its outline and to rein in tangents before they lead the narrative awry. Along the way, Bateman's prose settles into a comfortable pace, a pace that when held up against other Reformed authors falls somewhere between the awed, sometimes flowery delivery of John Piper and the acerbic, jangly cadence of John MacArthur. matthew