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Manly Dominion, In A Passive Purple-Four-Ball World
Manly Dominion, In A Passive Purple-Four-Ball World
by Mark Chanski
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In billiards, the 4-ball is passive; it's the one that gets knocked around by the others. Is that you? A Christian man can learn to do better than that. Let's not be passive about God's assignments at home, work or church. The world is full of such men; this book is more than a call to Christian men to be decisively different. Author Mark Chanski gives men examples that show us concrete ways to change, touching on just about every subject that a man needs to consider in his life, and he does so with exceptional clarity.
"Christian men have been influenced and intimidated by the feminist belief that authority in the home is equal. As a Bible teacher and counselor to women, I teach that a wife is to submit to her husband unless he asks her to sin. Submission is not always easy, especially if the husband is not leading. A husband who does not lead is one of the chief complaints I hear from wives who want to honor the Lord and follow their husband's lead. Mark Chanski's book Manly Dominion tells the men how. I wish every husband of the wives that I counsel could read this book." -- Martha Peace, NANC certified Biblical Counselor and Author of The Excellent Wife
"The author, a pastor in Holland, Michigan, thinks that many Christian men fall far short of the biblical vision of what he calls "husbanding." Several significant cultural factors have contributed to this reality, but Chanski sees even deeper theological issues at stake. Taking his cue from billiards, Chanski describes weak husbands as "passive nice guys," who have fallen prey to "passive-purple-four-ballism." The purple 4' ball on the pool table is passive, and so are too many men, Chanski argues. His book, Manly Dominion, is worth careful attention. Young men of the rising generation of Christian men need this book -- and so do many of their fathers. Here's a sampling:
"The constant imbibing of feminism, mixing together with man's native sinfulness, has resulted in an epidemic of passive-purple-four-ballism in modern marriages. Men have permitted themselves to be emasculated into a company of wimp eunuchs, who believe it should be their goal to strive toward being passive nice guys in their homes. We've been told, and actually now believe, that "authority" is a naughty word, that male headship is abusive, and that aggressive leadership is rude. Thus, husbands have abdicated the driver's seat and taken a back seat in their marriages."
"Adam has become the poster-boy for today's fashionably easy-going husband. Instead of assertively standing at the forefront of his marriage, talking nose-to-nose with the crafty serpent, he's content to sit back and let Eve do the talking. And when Eve gave her husband the fruit, instead of standing up like a man and boldly refusing to transgress God's Word, he passively caved in to the unprincipled and misguided desires of his wife (cf. Genesis 3:1-6). As a result, Adam cursed his family."
"This sad Genesis portrait epitomizes most modern marriages. And it's our fault, men! We've got to reject modern thinking and take up biblical thinking. Without apology, the Scriptures teach that the man is to be the leader in his marriage and in his home. Husbanding is a crucial endeavor requiring manly dominion." -- Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
