What it is about
Morley writes to the man caught in the rat race, successful on the outside and hollow underneath. He walks through the problems men actually face, identity, purpose, marriage, money, time, integrity, and holds up a mirror between the man the culture made and the man God intends.
It reads like a friend who has been there and is telling you the truth.
The big idea
Most men are trying to quench a spiritual thirst with material things. The man in the mirror has to decide which man he will be, the one the world shaped or the one God is making.
Talk it through
- Morley describes the man who is successful but empty. Where do you feel that gap between how things look and how they are?
- What are you chasing right now, and what are you hoping it will finally give you?
- Where has the rat race set the pace of your life instead of God?
- Which pressure Morley names, money, time, work, marriage, has the tightest grip on you?
- If you looked honestly in the mirror, what man is looking back, and what man do you want to be?
- Where have you been living for the approval of people instead of God?
- Where are the biblical man and the cultural man pulling you in opposite directions?
Read the Word
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One practice
Set aside twenty quiet minutes this week, alone, and ask honestly: what am I building my life on, and is it holding? Write down one thing that needs to change, take the first step, then tell a brother.