What I Want to Accomplish in the Final Stages of My Internship?

Studying is a great thing and I have been so thankful for the opportunity to study here at Warner Ave Baptist Church. If there is one thing that I have learned while I am here it is that I certainly do not want this to be the end of my learning. In some ways what I have learned has only opened the door to much, much more learning. I am excited to make this a life long pursuit. I am very thankful that I have been able to get this head start on such things. I have been able to read some great books, prepare a lot of sermons, take some awesome classes on theology, as well as many other things.

While there are several other books as well as other projects I intend to complete before my time here is done, I really want to complete my thesis. I want to sum up my learning here in a very large project that I hope in the end will produce something of a small book. This I hope will be a valuable tool for me as I go out to work in whatever ministry God sees me doing next. I am still working on a title but the theme of the book will address the modern Christian man and his roles in Church, Society and Family. Unfortunately it seems the greatest fault of our modern Christian man is not that he is off in the Holy Land slaughtering Jews, Christians, and Muslims or torturing Indians on the tables of the Inquisition, or even flirting with the concepts of Darwinism, but that his wholly missing in action. Where is the modern Christian man? Has he been so silenced by his failures that he simply is too timid to even speak on the behalf to others? While the historic Christian man has made his mistakes at least he tried. Sure it hasn't been all roses and sunshine, but it was Christian men who were willing to die for their faith in the coliseums of Rome, who fought to end the slave trade and spoke out against Hitler and his Reich. As Teddy Roosevelt wisely said  “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Unfortunately the modern Christian man has checked out. This generation has become the fatherless generation. 

This book will be a call to men to stand up and fight for the truth. Jesus was not afraid to use a whip and lash to purge his Father's house. We should not be afraid to defend the defenseless and stand in the gap.

"The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD." 

                                                                                                Ezk 22:29-31