How to Be a Real Man

Most men were never taught how to be men. This book is the brick to the forehead they needed. A generation of men has been handed a lie. Be passive and you'll be safe. Be nice and you'll be good. Wait until you can afford a wife, wait until you're ready for kids, wait until the fear goes away. So they wait...and the years pass, and the women and children who needed them go unprotected, and the culture keeps telling them the problem is that they're men at all. Pastor Mark Driscoll has spent three decades pastoring men, and he's watched what happens when good men do nothing. In How To Be a Real Man, he goes back to the first word God ever spoke over a man—dominion—and shows what it means to take up the authority God assigned you and use it to build rather than break. This is not a book about being nice. It's a book about being useful. Inside you'll learn: Why the world you live in was custom-built to break men, and who built it The eight lies the father of lies tells every man, and how to answer each one Why your worst enemy is not your boss, your ex, or the culture—it's you How to leave your father and mother before you can cleave to a wife, and what to do when your family won't cooperate Why your wife is your toughest challenge and your greatest gift What it actually takes to be Pastor Dad in your own home How to tell a wise man from a fool from someone who is genuinely evil, and how to treat each one Why real men repent, and why it's the strongest thing a man ever does Each chapter closes with questions for personal reflection and group discussion, making this a practical resource for men's groups, discipleship relationships, and fathers who want to hand something better to their sons. You were made for more than this. It's time to get up off the mat.