Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. Little

Warning before we get started with the interview today with Pastor Michael Foster.

For some of you, depending on the rules of your household and how you want to raise your kids and everything, you may not want, if you have young kids, them to hear some of the things we're going to talk about.

We are talking about masculinity and some things get mentioned in

passing in this interview that I know some parents would not appreciate their kids

hearing at younger ages. So I just wanted to put that out there so no one surprised when certain things get

mentioned later on in the podcast. I hope this is helpful to you it may raise

more questions than it answers but hopefully it starts to answer some things that questions that I know I've had and

maybe some of you have had as well so without further ado here's Michael

Foster pastor of the East River Church in is that in Cincinnati as well?

Tavia, Ohio.

Okay.

And then also, podcaster, it's good to be a man,

is the project that Michael Foster is working on you can go to

it's good to be a man dot com and there's a lot of blogs there podcast

recommended books all sorts of, you can support his ministry to men.

You describe yourself, Michael, as kind of being a missionary to men.

So first question, do men need a missionary?

And then what inspired you kind of to take that role?

So my friend George Bruno, who's a pretty well-known

you tuber, told me I was a missionary to man he kept he kept saying

over and over again and I thought it was kind of funny so I stuck it on my Twitter bio. So look I'm a missionary to whoever God sends my way right that's to be preached the gospel too but in the times we live in there is a concentrated attack on manhood just like if you were in the

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