Mens Fraternity Week 2

This Week in the Men's Fraternity: The Quest for Authentic Manhood, we learned about the four faces of manhood. These faces are honorable faces that each man should have in his life. Since there is four of them there is a balance that needs to be achieved. The four faces are The King face, The Warrior face, The Lover face, and The Friend face.

The King face is the face that reflects the love of what is right over comfort. This face is characterized by strong convictions, courageous moral choices, a servant spirit, and righteous leadership. If you are not correctly balanced in this area you are close to or are a tyrant or an abdicator.

The Warrior face reflects conquering energy and the characteristics are initiative, protecting, providing, perserving and fighting. On either side of the warrior face is a Wimp or a Destroyer.

The lover face reflect romantic energy and is characterized by Tenderness, sensitivity, sacrificial care, emotional openness, physical affection. on either side of the Lover face is cold and the other end of the spectrum is critical.

The Friend face reflects connecting energy and is characterized by loyalty, accountability, challenge, and fun. The end of the friend spectrum is the loner and the user.

Because of the way our culture is today most men lack the king face and without the king face the warrior face becomes unrestrained, hurting lives, including his own. Along with our culture the increasingly feminized culture has emasculated the warrior in many young men. The result has been the creation of the soft male, indecisive as to direction, and weak as to leadership.

Which of the four faces can you most identify with and why?

I think many guys including myself can identify witht he warrior face b/c of sports and the desire to win.

 Which of the four faces do you need the most help with?

Honestly i need to work more on the lover face, I need to show more affection with my wife and doing this class is a good reminder. If you have trouble with this here  is a good book, Love & Respect.