October 20, 2026 · masculinity, manhood, patriarchy
Men were created for mission. In the beginning, when God made Adam, He gave Adam a mandate; name, subdue, and dominate the Earth. Then He set Adam in a garden to work and guard it as the first stage of the grand mission of world domination.
Adam, of course, failed in his task by letting the dragon into the garden to tempt his wife, and then by letting his wife lead him into the sin of eating from the forbidden tree. And then instead of taking responsibility for his failure, he blamed his wife and God in the same breath, “the woman you gave me…”
Christ, however, is the new Adam. He came to fulfill the task that Adam had failed, first by killing the dragon and rescuing His bride from its clutches. Secondly, Christ then took up the scepter of rule that Adam had dropped and He will rule until every enemy has been subdued and all the Earth is dominated by Christ’s gracious rule.
As men are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, they become New Creations, which means the old man in Adam has died and the new man in Christ has come alive. Through the work of God, men are remade into the image of the conquering Christ and they are set free to begin subduing and dominating the Earth as they were created to do. This is mankind’s mission, and every Christian man has been born into that mission by blood and by Spirit.
Men were not created for passivity and domesticity. Men were created to build, fight, and dominate. Not, as Chesterton put it, because they hate what’s in front of them but because they love what’s behind them.
Modern society has taught men to be weak, fearful, and easy to manipulate. But when Christ gets a hold of a man, one of the things He does is set the man on His two feet, gives Him a sword, and says, “Follow me.”