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All right, welcome to another episode of Theology Applied. I am your host,

Pastor Joel Webin with Right Response Ministries. I'm excited about this episode. This is with Michael

Foster. Michael Foster, along with his co-author, non-tenant, they wrote the book,

It's Good to Be a Man. It's good to be a Man. It's been hovering in that number one spot off

and on within the Christian manhood section on Amazon. So it's done really

well. It's also available on the Canon Plus app. I think it's published through Canon, so you get a

hard copy through them if that's what you want. But Michael has done a lot on patriarchy, on biblical

masculinity, and just kind of helping the church navigate out of

this feminized Christianity that we've been swimming in for decades now.

And so we talk about in this episode, not just manhood, but we talk about masculinity,

courageous leadership, but we really focus it on eldership and also the deaconin. We talk a lot about the

deaconin and how to actually define that biblically and why guys just kind of fell apart and folded

like a cheap suit over the last two and a half years with COVID and how the deck is being

reshuffled. You know, it's all of a sudden things are getting mixed up. It's a fresh start,

a new opportunity in the providence of God for a lot of people. And so as we look to plant new churches

and reorient it and reform new churches, and we're looking for fresh, courageous,

biblically faithful men to lead these churches, what are some of the qualities, the benchmarks that men need

to be aspiring towards? That's the focus of our episode today. I think you'll enjoy it. Tune in now.

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