RISE: Men's Advance

Why are we here? What are we doing? We are here because this idea, kind of the birth of the idea, we were a church plant.

We'd been around for, at that time, 13 years.

Caleb had come on staff with us at Crosswalk Church in Round Rock, Texas.

And then through that process, really realizing the need for headship, not just in the church, underneath Christ as the ultimate shepherd, But also just in the homes and that out of that would flow discipleship.

So in other words, if we get headship, biblical, convictional leadership among men in our churches, that we're going to see discipleship flow out of that from the top down.

But we've got to start there.

And so we kind of...

I coined the idea and the phrase the men's advance because we want to move forward, not backwards and retreat.

And it's not a retreat, really.

It's not a it's not restful.

It's intentional that we're diving in, digging deep into the word so that we can not just become better men.

behaviorally modified men, but just men of God that want to lead in a way that's uncommon.

And so we had an incredible last year, and so that leads us to this year.

And so we've had a great group, great weekend.

Pastor Jonathan, who's one of our planting pastors out of Crosswalk Round Rock, has come in.

So he's been teaching us the Romans 6 this week.

It's been all about, are you a slave to sin or are you a slave to righteousness? If you've died with Christ, you've been united with him in his death.

Are you also... living with him in his resurrection.

And so it's been an incredible weekend.

So we're here in Camp Buckner right outside of Burnett, Texas.

And and we've been we've been doing it big today.

I'll tell you, this is so I came last year.

I'm good friends with Caleb and you.

I'm not going to leave you out there, Pat.

I've known you for a while now.