A Call To Dangerous Men (Rise Up!)
You were not saved to be safe.
The Gospel does not tame men. It resurrects them. It takes dead men—apathetic, passive, docile, disordered, domesticated—and makes them dangerous again. Dangerous to sin. Dangerous to Satan. Dangerous to compromise. Dangerous to a culture drunk on weakness and allergic to conviction.
Because Christ did not bleed to make you manageable. He bled to make you new. And new men are not beige. They are bold. They are not spineless. They are steel. They are not content to sit in a pew and emote. They want a sword in one hand, a psalm in the other, and dominion under their feet.
This is the call of Wisdom. Not to mediocrity. Not to neutrality. But to dominion.
“To you, O men, I call!” (Proverbs 8:4)
Lady Wisdom is not inviting men to tea. She is summoning them to battle. The kind of battle that is fought with truth and tenderness, grit and grace. A battle for souls, for homes, for pulpits, for nations. A battle that requires men who have been forged in the fire of divine glory, and who do not flinch when called to stand.
This is the masculinity that Christ restores. Because Christ did not merely redeem your soul; He reclaims your purpose. He reconfigures your instincts. He renovates your manhood. He takes your cowardice and trades it for courage. He takes your pride and tempers it into humility. He takes your rage and transforms it into righteous strength.
And He does it by wisdom. Because Jesus is the Wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24). He is the Incarnate Logos, the Man who fulfills every Proverb and Psalm. He is the Strong Man who binds the enemy. The Shepherd who carries a rod. The Priest who carries blood. The King who carries a cross. And now, He calls His men to follow.
To imitate.
To stand.
To build.
To be dangerous again.
But not in the way the world defines danger. Not as bullies or brutes or braggarts. Not as power-hungry tyrants or flesh-driven fools. No—Christ calls you to be dangerous like Himself: full of truth, full of power, full of purpose, full of obedience.
Dangerous to the gates of hell. A man like this does not settle for ease. He does not apologize for conviction. He does not let culture catechize his children. He does not let his wife carry what he should. He does not abdicate his responsibility or abandon his post. He stays. He fights. He protects. He plants. He prays. He leads.
Because he knows: softness is not sanctification. Passivity is not piety. Niceness is not holiness. Righteous men are dangerous. They upset the status quo. They speak uncomfortable truth. They build altars and institutions. They die with swords in their hands and blood on their brows.
This is what the world hates. And this is what the Church must recover. We do not need more groomed men. We need godly men. We do not need more safe spaces. We need sacred callings. We do not need more indecision. We need holy defiance.
So rise, man of God. Rise from your lethargy. Rise from your guilt. Rise from your slumber. Rise from the cultural coma that says your masculinity is a problem to fix rather than a gift to steward.
Answer the call.
Be strong. Be wise. Be dangerous. Because Christ did not save you to play defense. He saved you to go to war.
