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Avatar – Be Your Own Role Model

Picture in your mind who you are when you are performing best at work. What does that man look like? How does he walk and talk to others? How does he manage his time? This is an avatar.

Now imagine who you are when you are performing your best in the gym. How does your training look when you are exactly the person you want to be, the mental picture you have of yourself being the hero of the day? How intense is the training session and how focused is your mind?

Lastly, picture yourself in your various interpersonal relationships. It could be with your parents, significant other or friends. How do you behave in those moments when you are exactly the person you want to be? How do you interact with others and what do you say? How easily does the conversation flow?

Now answer this question: for each of the three example environments listed above, is the ideal version of yourself the same for all of them? The answer should be “No!” If you are the same person in every facet of your life you will be constantly underperforming.

In each of the above scenarios, you have different avatars. Think of an avatar as a different flavor of your personality. In each situation, one part of you is better suited for generating maximum performance. For example, you need to use the violent side of your nature when engaging in physical training. But you also need to be soft and kind when dealing with your relationships.

If you are the same person with your wife as you are in the gym, both your marriage and your physique will be disasters. The violence of the gym does not translate well to relationships, and the softness of relationships does not translate well to the gym. Therefore, you must build separate avatars for each life scenario you will encounter to maximize your efficiency. Each avatar has an ideal environment where it can live. We will examine a few common scenarios and how you can build and use various avatars to maximize performance.

The Way of The Avatar if to Use Yourself as the Role Model

The fastest road to success is to model others who are already successful and do what they do. We have been doing this since we were very young. We first copy our parent’s behaviors and we pick up their habits unconsciously. Later we begin to model our friends if we are unwise. As we get older we notice people we want to imitate. This is the root of “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” The answer to that question is based on the models we have seen and how they influence our thinking. What if I told you that you could imagine role models and copy them for maximum performance? It is actually simple to do this and you are likely doing it already.

We all have fantasies where we visualize ourselves performing at the top level. We can see ourselves delivering a masterful speech fearlessly and effortlessly. We can picture ourselves playing professional sports or mastering a musical instrument. We envision ourselves gaining a skill or running a business or performing some incredible feat of strength in the gym. If you have experienced a daydream, you already know what it is like to generate avatars of yourself in your mind. Each one of those fantasies represents the type of person you believe you have the capacity to be. Sometimes you may be so motivated by this image that you sprint to the gym to train or pick up your guitar and run drills. What exactly is happening in those moments?

We are visualizing ourselves performing at our best, and then working to imitate that mental image. We are literally imitating the idea of what we think we can be. If we are unconsciously doing this on a regular basis, why not learn to manipulate this power to our advantage? What this skill involves is the ability to create characters of who we want to be in each situation of life and then working to imitate them. Here we will work through a few examples and then do a case study on the Biblical Character David.

The Work Avatar

When it comes to your work, what does the ideal man do? I visualize the type of man who is at work ten minutes before he needs to be and leaves ten minutes after the work day is done. He knows himself and how he best performs. With this knowledge, he schedules the day so that he is in the best possible mental state for each task.

He knows at what parts of the day he has high energy so he schedules any heavy, focused work for those moments. He knows when the midday lull hits so he schedules low-focus, busywork that needs to be done but requires less mental effort. At all times he is optimizing his work output and giving his maximum effort. Every hour is spent well, not a second is wasted. This man cannot be accused of stealing one dime from his work either in time spent or in supplies stolen.

This man has a massive work output, always finishes tasks ahead of schedule unless unexpected scenarios throw him off. He is an exemplary worker and a role model. He can generate 80 work hours per week if necessary and never complains about it once. Due to his dedication, he is compensated heavily and is always looking for ways to increase his value, his ability to serve, and as a result, his salary.

The Training Avatar

When the ideal man enters the gym, he becomes another person. I envision a man who morphs from kind and loving to a savage barbarian, a machine, a Berserker of olden times. In the moments to follow he knows no pain and listens to nothing in his head; not the voice telling him that his current level of effort is “good enough”, nor the voice reminding him of the accolades of old. He is forever hungry.

He trains to the maximum of his capacity, ignoring every screaming sensation in his body. Not only is he training the body, but he is training his mind. He is training himself to not give in to difficulty and adversity in the workplace by practicing it in training. He is learning to hold on a few moments longer when enduring physical pain so he can hold on for a few extra moments when enduring mental pain. He knows life is a game of inches, it’s the little bits that count. And in training, he gathers those little victories.

The way he trains reflects the way he thinks, works, and does every other task in his life – to the best of his ability every set, every rep, every project, every goal.

The Social Avatar

I envision the socially competent man as a master of observation. He knows that it is only through observation that social cues are noticed, body language is analyzed and the words of others are dissected. If he is aloof and far off, living in his own head, or worried about what others think of him he will miss all of those details. Social events are to be treated as intelligence-gathering operations. He is learning about his enemies as well as his allies. Just as a leader wants to know the chink in the armor of his foe, he needs to be aware of where his ally is most likely to lose his footing in a strategic scenario.

The socially competent man listens to how others speak and attempts to view the meaning behind the words they use. There is always more to a person than the mere words they say. Every phrase is couched in nuance, deception, self-righteousness, or personality clues. The only way these clues can be discovered is if a man gets out of his own head and into the social scenario.

This man gains power by gaining intelligence about those around him whether at work, church, or recreation. Every situation is a chance to engage in strategic maneuvers and build rapport. The social man can see every cue and every clue, every hidden phrase, and every off-hand remark thrown out (which tend to have the most meaning built into them).

The Student Avatar

When learning new skills, the ideal man can focus for extended periods of time without becoming fatigued. He can work for hours but prefers to work with intensity and finish tasks quickly by virtue of this Herculean effort.

The ideal man breaks down every concept into its component parts and masters each one in a systematic method. Leaving no stone unturned, he pursues ultimate mastery of every minor detail. This is what makes him a master of his craft and allows him to learn at an accelerated pace. He then takes his new knowledge and shares it with others, compressing it into a form that is easy to understand.

Notes

As you may have noticed, these are high bars to set for yourself, but it is incredibly important to set them anyways. Think of your heroes in life. From professional athletes to inventors to entrepreneurs, they are all living standards. To try to imitate them is to acknowledge that they set the bar very high and still attempt to achieve. In fact, the fact that the bar is so high should be inspiring to us,. It should drive us to want to work more and harder after knowing what is possible for men to achieve in a lifetime if they are willing to trade a bit of work.

But there is not always an ideal role model for every single skill or character trait that we want to develop. Because of this, we build the avatars, and they pick up the slack. Imitate the ideal man in your own mind.

You also may notice that it would be almost impossible to maintain this standard of behavior every day. That is correct, no standard of perfection can be met in every endeavor of life in every instant of every day. There will always be failure and mistakes. If there are no failures or mistakes, your standards are not high enough. Raise the standards until they are inspiring yet simultaneously daunting. There is no honor in accomplishment without difficulty.

These are just a few basic avatars that serve as examples. You should build your own avatars for every skill and character trait that you want.

With all of that said, let us examine a Biblical Character with his own avatars in life.

Avatar I – A Man After God’s Own Heart

Many people wonder how David can commit all the various sins he does yet still be considered a man after God’s own heart. It is because he is instantly willing to take ownership of his actions and repent. It is as simple as that. He does not deny his behavior or make excuses, rather he feels instant regret and changes his behaviors, as was the case when confronted about his sin by Nathan the prophet. King David’s first and most famous avatar is that of the penitent man.

Avatar II – Wise Man

In his youth and throughout his life, David was recognized as a man of wisdom. The Bible notes on multiple occasions that David behaved wisely wherever he went (I Samuel 18:5,14), and his wisdom was apparent to King Saul (1 Samuel 18:15). It is easy to point out the fact that David did not always make wise decisions, as David has become a lesson of how not to behave in many sermons, sermons which assume that men have the same access to women as David did, which is an utter lie. David could not permanently live in the wisdom avatar, this is because he was human.

Avatar III – Savage Warrior

My personal favorite avatar of King David is that of the savage warrior. It is not a component of his character that is concentrated on in religion, but it is nonetheless important. It is important to see that the man after God’s own heart was a fierce and vicious warrior who would destroy towns and kill every man, woman, and child (1 Samuel 27). Imagine if Gengis Khan had a moral compass and that is close to the mentality of David, though his conquests were quite different.

Perhaps there was some hyperbole involved, but even the women of Israel sang about the body count of David the warrior (1 Samuel 18). Ask yourself what kind of man you have to be to behave wisely, have a penitent heart after God’s own, yet still have the will to stack thousands of bodies in combat.

And remember that this is not modern-day combat where the enemies are separated by space and fire at one another with long-range weapons. David killed thousands of men in hand to hand combat. He slaughtered his enemies by hand, with sword and spear. He killed them while looking them in the face. He drained their blood and brains into the earth – that takes a toll on a man’s mind. David had no choice but to put this part of himself in a box and keep it as an avatar. No man walks around as a berserker, but this element of him displays itself on the battlefield, as it undoubtedly did for David.

Avatar IV – Man of Rationality & Mercy

Despite having multiple chances to kill king Saul and having plenty of reason to do so, David spared him time and time again (1 Samuel 24, 26). It takes a man of great wisdom and forgiveness to set aside his emotion and spare his enemy for the sake of the Lord. Perhaps that is another component of his character that made him the man after God’s own heart. You can not go from savage to merciful without fully functional avatars.

Avatar V – Vengeful (A Negative Avatar)

On the negative side, David had a vengeful component to his personality. Perhaps it was his nature, it could have been human nature, or possibly it was a byproduct of repressing his violent urge against Saul and his enemies for too many years. Near the end of his life, David charged Solomon his son with exacting vengeance on Zeruiah for his actions against him in prior years. Zeruiah had cursed David and kicked stones at him but David chose to be merciful. Apparently, he did not forget this insult and paid it back through Solomon. David held his rage in for years and it came out on his deathbed. Instead of being proud of his mercy, he ended his life with an act of vengeance. Not exemplary behavior, but it is very much human.

Conclusion

You could spend more time and continue to dissect the character of David to find more avatars, but this is a decent start. The analysis allows you to see a few examples of avatars, how they work in people and how you can create, understand and develop your own in order to be more powerful in the various avenues of your life.

The Solution-Oriented Mind

One of the more recent things I have discovered as one of the differences between men and women is the following:

Women are relationship and problem-focused. They have people-oriented minds.
Men are progress and solution-focused. They have solution-oriented minds

I believe this single fact can explain why there are more male inventors than there are female inventors. It has nothing to do with a difference in intelligence and everything to do with the difference in the focus of the genders.

Women focus on problems and need to talk about them. This is why women get together and grow their interpersonal relationships by commiserating. They feel better by expressing their emotions and sharing in one another’s problems.

However, men focus on solutions to problems.

If men get together and actually talk to one another, the conversation typically revolves around solving problems. While the discussion could center around sports or some other pastime, generally men will be busy suggesting possible solutions for every problem in the world, from politics to home repairs.

Now this difference in men and women can actually be complementary if both sexes do not take their natures to the extreme. By that I mean if a woman takes her problem-oriented mind to the extreme, she will chronically complain and nag. And if a man hyper-focuses only on the solutions he generates, he becomes overconfident and oblivious to the holes in his own solutions. But if both sexes appropriately complement each other, they can generate powerful solutions to any problem.

This is accomplished by a man first creating the rough draft of a solution to any problem, followed by a rational critique of the solution by a problem-focused woman to which he responds by fixing the problems that she points out.

Unfortunately, this does not happen often. Women typically end up nagging and men end up as isolationists because neither had the self-awareness to correct their extreme natures.

The new issue, however, is the sad reality that men themselves have lost their solution-oriented mindset. Men have become like women and simply complain about problems instead of doing anything about them. This may come as a shock, but improvements cannot happen if all parties merely sit around and complain about the situation. Someone must have a solution-oriented mind. Someone has to take some action, and traditionally that has been the men. But in the 21st-century much of religion has become feminine centric, and every scrap of traditional masculinity is ridiculed or “educated” out of boys by the time they are old enough to be men.

At the root level, when men stop focusing on solutions and start focusing on problems, they become more effeminate. This is because it is the woman’s job to focus on the problems and it is the men’s job to focus on the solutions.

A man has the solution-oriented mind.

I have noticed this with modern Conservatives and Republicans in politics and with religious Conservatives as well. While political Liberals and Democrats and religious Liberals have always been problem-focused and effeminate in their positions, this is new territory for Conservatives. I believe this is why Conservative, Republican men are beginning to mirror the feminine traits common in Democrat or Liberal political parties. It is due to the simple fact that they complain about problems without providing solutions. The same happens with religious parties.

These are not value statements; I am not trying to argue a moral point regarding politics in this essay. These are simply facts and observations I have noticed and common occurrences that you have likely noticed as well. Everyone is more than welcome to their own opinion.

Back to the focal point. Men in the church have resigned themselves to complaining about problems instead of actually solving them.

You can pull up a video of any congressional speech made by a Republican and watch this very phenomenon play out (with the possible exception of Dan Crenshaw, one of the few masculine men left in congress). Or watch a video of any modernist sermon today and you will see men complaining about the state of the world without providing actionable steps for improvement.

Sure, these men may make a few comments about “trusting God” or “Grace” or something. But rarely if ever are men given actionable steps that they themselves can start taking to improve their minds and become solution-oriented.

We have plenty of people complaining about problems and the state of the world and we have very few men doing anything about those problems.

We have plenty of people in the church complaining about this issue or that situation and no one doing anything to provide solutions or change the situation. Even the more Conservative men in the church do nothing but complain and offer no solutions. This is because men have been specially bred to worship women instead of God. Feminism is built into their pedigree. Their entire focus has been reoriented from making God the focus of their lives to making women the focus of their lives and checking all the correct behavioral boxes so they can win women’s approval and intimacy. But that is an essay all by itself. Let’s move on to some applications.

Affirmation: I create solutions and never complain about problems.

Application: The Problem: Men have become effeminate by being problem-focused.

A Solution: Men must reorient their minds so that they generate solutions. They must become Solution-Oriented.

Men should be producing solutions faster than everyone else can generate problems. Men were not placed on earth to be masters of empathy, they are here to build and renovate homes, civilizations, and societies.

Key to Masculinity: Stop complaining and start solving. You need to allocate maximal mental resources to solutions and minimal mental resources to problems. It is fine to simply state a problem, but be sure you have some solutions to go along with those complaints. Every complaint you have must be followed by a solution if not four solutions to choose from. If you do not provide a solution to the problems you state, you are effeminate.

“90 % of mental resources should be focused on solutions and only 10% on problems” ~ Tony Robbins.

If you are around males who spend time complaining, question them about possible solutions to the problems they complain about. If they complain about politics, ask them what action they would have the politician take. They should have a ready answer since they obviously have so much knowledge about managing hundreds of millions of human beings in the world of political war. Or if they are complaining about church protocol, ask them for four possible solutions. If they cannot answer the question, press them on the fact that they have no solutions to problems and are nothing more than mere complainers. They will hopefully become embarrassed and consider their position more rationally before they vomit their partially digested criticisms onto whoever has the misfortune of being nearby.

Plant the seed in your mind that you are a man who finds, creates, and executes solutions to problems instead of just complaining about them.

Be able to discuss those solutions in a calm, rational, stoic manner. No one listens to the guy who yells at the leader, “You should do X, Y, and Z you moron”. State your position eloquently and with a rational mind, giving respect to those in the positions of authority who are able to execute those actions. By doing this you protect their ego.

You can also leverage their ego by expressing how wise it would make them look if they implemented your solution, and they do not even have to give you any credit. If they implemented it, you not only solved the problem but strengthened a trade embargo. This is life, and life is a manipulation.

Conduct Yourselves Like Men.

Attrition Warfare = Instant Gratification

What is the typical response to getting punched in the face? Generally, it is to hit back. The natural reaction or reflex is to strike back at a person who hits you. While this is useful in a physical fight, it may be less useful in psychological warfare.

While I enjoy attrition warfare when it is used to make a clear point or display force, it is less useful if your goal is the full-scale destruction of an opponent. Perhaps attrition warfare can still be a piece of your combat strategy, but your overall strategy must include more aspects of total war than just the fighting.

When I say “Attrition Warfare“, the image I want you to have in your mind is lines of soldiers crashing into one another, or firing rifles into each other’s ranks. These men continue to fire or fight until one side runs out of men.

Attrition warfare = instant gratification

As epic as that style of warfare can be, it is very costly, even to the victorious side. This is why it is much more profitable to use maneuver warfare if your goal is to totally annihilate your enemy.

I find that we commonly tend to use attrition warfare in many of our social interactions. If people start a verbal joust with us, we respond by hitting right back. But practically speaking, would it not be better to hamstring an opponent’s horse rather than actually engage in a jousting match with him? That would be an example of maneuver warfare. It requires more thinking and planning, but it can do infinitely more damage at almost no cost to you.

What we need to become aware of as men is the tendency we have to rise up and charge into battle. I often talk about the warlike nature of man and its importance. While that nature is undoubtedly important, it must be combined with rational thought and planning. You will be one-hundred times more efficient at warfare if you combine that warlike spirit with the pin-point precision of grand strategy.

It is incredibly satisfying to engage in this attrition warfare, to punch the enemy right back. This is why I generated the title of this post and hope you will remember it:

Attrition Warfare = Instant Gratification

Instead of delaying gratification by choosing the must more effective yet less satisfying maneuver warfare, we prefer to punch a person right back. After all, it feels great to punch back, especially in psychological warfare. But we must count the cost of that type of war. Others may see us act foolishly and we damage the possibility of trade opportunities. Relationships can be damaged. there is collateral damage to attrition warfare.

If you are engaged in psychological warfare and they punch you in the face, you should not be thinking about how to hit them back, but about how to burn down their house. Think about how you can draw them further into your field so you can crush them. Allow them to think that they are gaining the upper hand or that you are weak. This will encourage them to attack and they will begin to act too quickly.

Overly-ambitious action will lead to mistakes. Mistakes allow you to counterattack from the flank doing much more damage to them than they did to you. If you want to crush your enemy, maneuver around them, draw them into the open field, and then hit them from all sides. Incorporate this philosophy into your thinking.

The War Against The Self

The self is one of our many enemies. We must fight daily against its weakness, insufficiency and selfishness. The self must be brought under subjection. The self is primarily manifested in the flesh, so when we war against ourselves, we are actually fighting against our flesh. Secondarily, we fight against the weakness of our minds, because any glitch we have in the mind will manifest itself in the body. The body is merely a messenger for our thoughts and a vessel that represents the cumulative results of our mind’s work. Therefore, even though we mainly wrestle against our own flesh and blood, the war must begin in the mind. Once the mind is under control, then the body can be brought under control.

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Ephesians 6:11-12

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways”
Deuteronomy 28:7

“The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright; their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.”
Psalm 37: 12-16

We make the mistake of assuming that the enemy is primarily in the outside world, when in fact there is already an enemy living a parasitical existence within us. We must aggressively engage in the war against the self.

Many temptations come from within our minds (James 1:14-15). The primary enemy is within. Therefore, we must first defeat the enemy within before we can defeat the enemy without. We can never defeat an enemy outside the walls of our mind while simultaneously fighting treachery inside our mind. The internal war is won before the external war is won. We must focus on the enemy that is our own self, then we may conquer the world.

You as a man are responsible for declaring total war on any and all weaknesses that you have identified in yourself. You must adopt a vicious attitude towards weakness and sin. Become increasingly disgusted at your own behaviors and declare total war. Burn your weakness then sow salt in the fields and rubble.

Mantra

Crush personal evil into oblivion.

Application

The mind is odd because it can be defeated by itself. Two opposing forces can collide in the recesses of our minds, both originating from our thoughts. This is what is happening while we are thinking or internally debating about something. Two opposing opinions or desires are buried in bloody combat. The victor is whichever desire is fed the most thoughts. The thought that is thought about the most often is the one that will win and take root in the mind. Therefore, we must encourage the correct thoughts and think about them more while discouraging the negative thoughts by replacing them with something else.

Whenever your mind shifts to evil or to something you do not want to do, you must immediately replace that though with something else.

You need to do this before the thought can take root in the mind and grow into a tree. Think of thoughts like tiny seeds that can grow into an entire tree within seconds. Take anxiety for example: How many times have you felt perfectly fine and within a few moments of thinking you are in a nervous frenzy about some uncertainty in the future? That is because negative thoughts in the mind can grow at lightning speed and send you spiraling into defeat. You must not allow this to happen. You must increase your self-awareness so you are better at catching these thoughts before they can even start to grow.

When the battle of the mind is won, war can then be waged in the body.

The body of man is overrun with lusts of all kinds. Sex consumes the vast majority of man’s thoughts and personal lusts. He also lusts for power and money, but primarily because these tend to bring even more sex to the one who holds them. Skills and status are also lusted after, and these again bring sex. The lust for sex is the primary driver of man. All invention, creation and construction are the results of sexual energy. This energy must be redirected into business and power.

Men spill their seed using pornography or prostitutes when they could use that energy to create wealth of power instead. You should avoid confronting this lust head on. Try instead to redirect it to other outlets. If you war against the lust of the flesh and repress it, it will find a way to force an outlet because it is too powerful of an energy source to be contained. Suppress then redirect the strength of the enemy into anything that will gain more power for yourself.

Suppression, not Repression, is key.

Everything can be viewed in terms of sex, because as men, this is our greatest battle, and this battle pervades all other spiritual battles we face. Few make it out alive because they try to war against their own biology. Men use dams to redirect the power of a river, you must use strategically placed dams to redirect your own sexual power into constructive and creative endeavors. This requires leaving the house and building success using the power of the enemy against him. This can be done.

If this war is won, all other wars can be won.

Place armor on your mind.

Gather your thoughts to the task at hand.

Wage total war on yourself and unleash your raging fury upon your imperfections.

Conduct yourselves like men

Tribalism is Good & Necessary

There is an innate need in man to be part of a society or small group of men. Modern society has attempted to destroy tribes or downplay them by advocating for complete openness and the lack of groups. Groups have become “offensive”, thus we have globalism. Tribes have become archaic. This modern globalistic, feminism-driven trend must be rejected. The church itself is a brotherhood, and therefore it is an exclusive group. Tribalism is a good and necessary part of living. Colleges are tribes. Clubs are tribes. Biker gangs are tribes.

All these groups are separate from other groups. They have their own code and identity.

The church can satisfy the need of man to be part of a small group while at the same time granting salvation to those men.

“There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes”
Exodus 28:21

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17

“Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.”
1 Peter 2:7

Unfortunately, the religious world has become increasingly effeminate as feminism has seeped its way into the church.

The biblical model of headship in marriage is no longer taught in the church because preachers are afraid of women screaming at them about their “chauvinistic interpretation of the bible”. What more evidence do you need to support the fact that men in the church have become emasculated than to state that men are actually afraid of women? Because religion has become effeminate generally speaking, men are becoming less attracted to it over time.

Returning to the discussion of tribes: Even introverted men need to be part of groups, even if they feel the need to be involved with those groups less often. The group is necessary to the human being because it provides a sense of purpose and belonging. In a world devoid of any purpose and with some people even promoting purposelessness, the tribes become more important.

Many Christians will be uncomfortable with the word “tribes” because it can connote cavemen-style tribalistic gatherings where men eat raw meat and try to make fires with sticks.

This is not the case, as you will see when you examine the twelve tribes of Israel in scripture. Each son of Jacob created his own unique lineage that had thousands upon thousands of members. Every man knew exactly which tribe he was from because it was a large part of his identity.

Levites knew who they were, and they knew that the priesthood was a part of their unique tribe. No other tribe was allowed to approach the altar or to directly commune with God in the way that the High priest and the priests of the tribe of Levi were able to. That was a high level of exclusivity, and that exclusiveness applied even between brethren, since everyone in Israel was related (minus salves, sojourners, and other people taken from destroyed cities).

This should show us that there is nothing wrong with separation between peoples and exclusivity in a manner of tribalism. The modern world wants everything to be available to everyone no matter who you are. If you belong to a globalist world, you belong to nothing.

Globalists believe you should be able to join any exclusive tribe you want without even having to conform to their standards!

How ridiculous is that? How silly would it be for a man to join a club of men where the requirements for entrance were that you needed to be able to run 2 miles, be able to lift 100 pounds, and be able to operate a firearm and then say to the other club members, “You know, I really can’t meet any of your requirements, but I want to join anyways”?

But you can see this principle playing out in the church even today. You no longer have to live righteously to be a Christian anymore. You can be a public homosexual or living in open adultery and you will still find churches that will accept you. These churches are weak and they live in defiance of the Will and Word of God. Therefore, we must reject these churches and their way of conducting themselves. They are not part of our tribe. They have chosen the favor of the people over the favor of God.

It is not wrong to impose standards and exclusivity in the church in a manner that looks like tribalism.

We already do this everywhere in life! If a man wants to gain entrance to a college, he needs to have certain standardized test scores and go through a process of gaining admission and then pay for the schooling. He cannot effortlessly walk around the college taking classes and doing whatever he wants without going through these steps. This is because the college institution is hypothetically exclusive because it has entrance requirements. And once a person gets into college, they have to maintain a certain GPA in order to stay there. The same principle applies to Christians. The church has entrance requirements and a specific standard of behavior necessary for remaining in it.

The exclusivity of the church must be preserved. It is a tribe of men, even though many churches have become social clubs for eunuchs. We must restore the exclusive nature of the assembly in the churches where it has been lost, and we must hold the standards of righteousness at all cost. You cannot live in evil and try to claim membership to the tribe of Christianity, you must obey the standards to be included in this brotherhood. You must conduct yourself like a man.

Mantra

I Live righteously and belong to the Tribe.

Application

There may come a day when churches split rapidly in constant succession. The result will be many small churches that meet in houses just as in the first century. Our objective, if that day ever comes, is to use that split to our advantage to restore the exclusivity of the church. A Christian man must live his life in accordance with the code of conduct laid out in the Word of God. If he refuses, he is ejected from the church until he decides to change his lifestyle. This expulsion is in accordance with Scripture.

If you are currently in a church that allows individuals to live in open sin without any type of reprimand or expulsion, you need to leave it. That church would rather avoid confrontation and please everyone than do what is right in the eyes of God.

Leaving your church is difficult and may be painful, but your current tribe does not care about doing what is right, they only care about avoiding the pain and extreme discomfort that comes from telling someone they are wrong or openly expelling them from the church. Leave a church that is weak, because if persecution ever arises again, it will obliterate that church and you will be caught in the crossfire. Men who build their faith on emotions will be destroyed the instant that they are punished or even inconvenienced for the faith. You must leave that church and relocate to a strong church before that day comes.

If you need to form your own church, then do it.

It sounds strange to suggest starting a church in the home or in another building, but if no one around you is maintaining the church correctly then you have an obligation to change that fact. It is not too inconvenient to meet in someone’s house to commune and worship with men who are concerned with putting God first rather than putting convenience first, this has been done for thousands of years.

Whatever the cost, you must maintain the church and keep it exclusive. This is the task of man.

Strengthen your mind.

Embrace the changing world and bend it to the church.

Protect the church.

Conduct yourselves like men.

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