Why don’t Christians look to Jesus as a model for masculinity? | Opinion
Growing up in evangelical Christian culture, my masculinity and sexuality were constantly questioned.
I didn’t date until I was a senior in high school, and I was constantly fighting against rumors from others questioning, “Does he even like girls?” I was always told that Bible characters like King David and Samson were the model of “manhood” and leadership. Movies likeand anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger added layers of expectations on me, on what I needed to do to be a “man.”
Imagine how Jesus would have been treated in evangelical culture today for washing people’s feet, for weeping, for being single, for riding a donkey instead of a horse, for loving and forgiving his enemies rather than fighting them, and for telling people to turn the other cheek and put their swords away.
As one who was raised in those evangelical standards and experienced the deep pain it caused me and others, I see a deep lack of self-awareness. Evangelicals tend to blame the culture for “abandoning” something that has been harming so many in the church for generations.
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