Eric Mason is a church planter who lives and ministers in the heart of Philadelphia.

There he is the co-founder and lead pastor of Epiphany Fellowship, he's a husband and

father and he's the author of the book Manhood Restored, How the Gospel Makes Men Whole.

In that book on page 53 Mason writes this quote, think about it, the very fact that Jesus

came to earth as evidence of his willingness to stare sin in the eye.

In Jesus Christ, God became human.

He chose to live in the world that man had destroyed.

He faced fatigue, sweat, hunger, and even rejection.

He faced the self-righteous sin of religious people.

He faced the self-preserving sin of his closest friends who abandoned him.

He faced being misunderstood by his family, mocked by society, maligned by the crowds,

and even stolen from by the soldiers.

That's just a small sampling of the rest of the sin that he took upon his shoulders

at the cross and yet he went on.

This is manliness at its best, courage at its greatest."

As we will hear from Mason later, the topic of defining masculinity is opening new doors

for gospel outreach among non-Christians in his neighborhood and I ask him to explain

how and to talk more about how Christ models masculinity, but first I ask him about his

own father and I ask him why he wrote his book, Manhood Restored.

You know, actually I was going to write on something else and it was, you know, it was

interesting.

I was going to write on another subject.

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