There's more at church than the Sunday service. A Sunday School class offers direct engagement with the scriptures in an informal group. We discuss the value of a good Sunday School class and how best to prepare as a participant. We also talk about our experiences with Bill's Man Up Formula for creating and leading a men's Bible study class. Download or listen or watch this episode on our No Church Answers YouTube channel.

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We finished our study of Seth Troutt's Authentic Masculinity: Leaving Behind the Counterfeits for God's Design with a discussion of the roles Troutt puts at the top of the pyramid: Husband and Father. Unlike Son and Brother, these two are roles men chose. Troutt says they are "normative" in God's plan for men, a notion that already might ruffle some feathers. But to do them well, the require the maturity and self-knowledge built through experience. Is the Christian idea of marriage traditional or countercultural? Confining or liberating? Listen and argue.

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After offering his perspectives on masculine virtues, in the second half of Authentic Masculinty: Leaving Behind the Counterfeits for God's Design, author Seth Troutt addresses masculine roles. He defines these broadly, but bottom line, to him a “role” is all about what a man should be doing and how he ought to function in the world. Troutt identifies five specific roles a man will take throughout his life. This week we cover the first three.

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