Church is essential to godly masculinity

In Life Together, Bonhoeffer writes, “Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community, even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.”

These are men that Bonhoeffer calls visionary dreamers. They are never satisfied with anything in the real world because it doesn’t live up to their ideal. Many men today are such visionary dreamers. They are on a quest to find a church that only exists in their imaginations. It is a church that lives up to every expectation for their perfect liturgy, their perfect preaching, their perfect doctrine, their perfect music—and their perfect pastor. It is led by a hero they can look up to. It is filled with people that are “likeminded” in his niche concerns. That church is out there. He just knows it is. He hasn’t found it yet—so far, every church has been off in some way. So he will hop from one church to the next, always lookin…