Masculine Christianity

By: Zachary Garris

Narrated by: David Webb

The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society. Yet the church has rebelled against God’s design and embraced the unbelieving world’s teaching that women should take on the same roles and duties as men rather than focus on the home and children. Christian scholarship and Bible commentaries are dominated by feminist arguments that both husband and wife should submit to each other (“mutual submission”), that women may be pastors and preach sermons to men, and that the Apostle Paul’s teaching on men and women was limited to Greco-Roman culture and has been transcended by our unity in Christ.

Sadly, the conservative response to feminism—complementarianism—compromised several historic Christian teachings and has thus given feminism an even stronger foothold in the church. Many complementarians fail to root gender roles in the differing natures of men and women. As a result, they have refused to apply the Bible’s teaching about men and women beyond the home and church, leading to the embrace of women in civil office and military combat. In addition, the vast majority of complementarians have adopted the novel interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (“the women should keep silent in the churches”) that Paul only prohibited women from evaluating prophecy, which has opened the door to women preaching and teaching men in the church.

The result is that the Western church has become effeminate and weak. Pastors are afraid to teach important Bible passages on the roles and duties of men and women, and it is no surprise that young Christian women are trading babies for careers outside the home and that churches are regularly capitulating to subversions of biblical sexual ethics. What the church needs is to recover its masculine calling, where men embrace their God-given authority—and responsibility—in the home, church, and society. This book affirms the historic Christian teaching on men and women, critiques feminist scholarship, and urges complementarians to hold a more robust and consistent position. This is a call to return to the Bible’s teaching on men and women. This is a call to Masculine Christianity.

©2020, 2021 Zachary Garris (P)2022 Zachary Garris

A call to lead well as men

In a world twisted by the lies of Satan and the tools of feminists, this book serves his excellent primer to godly men to pick up the mantle of responsibility that God has called them towards. Not just in the church, but in the family and world as well.

No one else has spoken on masculinity this clearly

Full of scripture references, encouraging, and seeks to define biblical masculinity, thereby also encouraging biblical femininity. It’s clear, concise, and a book that I’ll be recommending and rereading for years to come.

Very thoroughly considered

Well written and engaging. It isn’t shallow or emotionally driven but seeks to give thoughtful consideration to what the Bible has to say on the topic.

Worth listening to more than once

I can’t stop listening to this.
So much to learn from it, take good notes, Lord knows I did.

Must read

Every American needs to read or listen to this book. The history and theology laid out give a great picture of where we were, where we've been, and where we are as a nation and a church.