{"id":6113,"date":"2023-07-18T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T23:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T23:44:16","slug":"aspire-to-be-as-great-within-your-lot-as-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/aspire-to-be-as-great-within-your-lot-as-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspire to be as Great Within Your Lot as you Can"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“…Let\u2019s start with what a mission is. It is really much simpler than many men imagine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mission is your best effort at wisely integrating your interests, skills, and circumstances into a personal vision for exercising dominion over what God has given you. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This dominion, of course, is exercised in God\u2019s stead. In a moment we will walk through some dos and don\u2019ts for taking on this task, and you will see that it is actually very straightforward. Men were made to do it, so when it is explained to them, it naturally makes sense. But first we need to caution you against [some] assumptions that might tie you in knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This excerpt is taken with permission from Chapter 12 of It’s Good to Be a Man: A Handbook on Godly Masculinity <\/em>by Michael Foster. Watch Michael’s IGTBAM documentary streaming on Canon+ <\/a>now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Modern Christians, conditioned into a functional gnosticism, think of serving the Lord as something that happens in church\u2014so the ultimate version of this service is being a pastor, or maybe a missionary (mission is even in the name, after all). If they are not called to this, they think they are called to something lesser. As you now know, Scripture has a much broader and more holistic view of service than that. All of life is worship, and however you work, you are working for the Lord. Adam is the prototypical man…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,16],"tags":[57],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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