Toxic Masculinity:
Behaviors totally driven by and measured by inappropriate expressed violence,
an unhealthy pursuit of sex, and status, With an avoidance of emotional vulnerability and accountability.

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True masculinity rejects passivity and walks towards responsibility.

We all have universal need, universal fear, and universal doubt.

These look different for men and women.

Universal need:
Women - Security
Men - Significance

Universal fear:
Women - rejection
Men - failure

Universal doubt:
Women - Am I worth it?
Men - Am I competent?

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The #1 responsibility of winning masculinity is to live a life that correctly

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The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. —Genesis 2:15 NIV

There are 7 arenas where we must envision the win, train, and reflect the image of God.

On a scale from 1-10, where do you fall in each of these arenas in your life as of right now?

1) Physical Health

¹⁹Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body. —1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NASB

2) Mental Health

¹Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ²Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. —Romans 12:1-2 NIV

3) Family Health

How can I make my family happier and stronger moving forward?

4) Financial Health

Do I have that margin?

5) Vocational Health

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, —Colossians 3:23 NIV

6) Social Health

We have to realize that no man is a true man without the help of other men.

7) Spiritual Health

I am not who I want to be, but I am not who I used to be.

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“Especially if I am having self doubt, I think about past successes. I try to remember the moments when I was at my best — when I was having a great day and I really was in my zone. I go back to that feeling, then I attack the day, I attack the game with that same enthusiasm.” —Richard Sherman

God doesn’t expect perfection.
He expects progress towards perfection.

¹Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, ²fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. —Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV